Caffeine-for-Windows
Caffeine for Windows - Keep your Windows 10/11 PC awake with one click. No sleep, no screen off, no auto-lock
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GITHUB · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 55%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop and display utilities · 171 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -75% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- anti-sleep
- caffeine
- keep-awake
- keep-screen-on
- no-sleep
- power-management
- +6 more
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More like this: all 171 launches in desktop and display utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight Windows system tray utility calling standard Win32 APIs like SetThreadExecutionState and simulating occasional keystrokes (F15) to prevent sleep.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 231 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #96 of 232 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 189 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Keep My Screen On! · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Keep Screen On · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- caffeinate-plus · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Caffeine Timing Calculator · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- BeanFade · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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