Adrafinil
Keep your Mac awake while AI agents work, lid closed
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Details
- External ID
- 1271108
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Adrafinil
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- Mac
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Adrafinil keeps your Mac awake only while AI agents are working, lid fully closed, and sleeps the instant the last session ends. macOS · free · open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac keep-awake utility for background agent tasks with lid closed
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A simple open-source macOS utility that calls the `caffeinate` API or `IOPMAssertionCreateWithName` based on background process activity detection.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 102 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 103 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 219 days after the earliest competitor.
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.84
- Awakado · ph · 2026-10-06 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Modafinil · hn · 2026-05-10 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- agents-dont-sleep · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Let It Brew · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Auto Mouse Mover - Anti Sleep · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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