Let It Brew
Keep your Mac awake while coding agents work
Details
- External ID
- 1265548
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Let It Brew
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34585152838427946
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Let It Brew keeps your Mac awake while Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, or Pi works, then lets it sleep when tracked work stops. Free and open source, with closed-lid support, battery limits, and no account required.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop utilities and system controls
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- keep-awake utility for macs running coding agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight macOS utility (using Swift or Python) that monitors specific background processes and toggles macOS power assertions (`IOPMAssertionCreateWithName`) to prevent sleep.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 249 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #169 of 250 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- agents-dont-sleep · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- OpenCompanion · ph · 2026-10-01 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Computer Use in Claude Code · ph · 2026-03-31 · 442 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- meepo · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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