Awakado
Keep your Mac awake while your AI agents work
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Details
- External ID
- 1268302
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Awakado
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 73
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9766785781455708
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
A Mac menu-bar app that keeps your Mac awake while Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor work, then lets it sleep. Free. Pro keeps it awake with the lid closed and wakes it when a Claude Code usage limit resets.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac keep-awake utility for running background ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Basic Mac sleep prevention (caffeinate wrapper) is easy, but monitoring specific CLI agent processes, sleep evasion with closed lid, and remote rate-limit polling requires deeper native system hooks.
What it would actually take: A native Swift menu-bar application leveraging `IOPMAssertionCreateWithName` for sleep prevention. Keeping a MacBook awake with clamshell mode closed without an external display requires private Apple APIs or low-level kernel assertions (similar to Amphetamine/NoSleep), plus process monitoring APIs (`sysctl`/`libproc`) to track CLI sub-processes and monitor rate-limit response headers from LLM providers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 271 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 272 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- Let It Brew · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Adrafinil · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Vigil Companion · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Auto Mouse Mover - Anti Sleep · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- agents-dont-sleep · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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