Extra Cup
Keep your Mac awake, even with the lid closed
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Details
- External ID
- 1264541
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Extra Cup
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252774120744781
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A free menu bar app that stops your Mac falling asleep. One switch keeps it awake for 30 minutes, an hour, two, or until you turn it off, and the screen still sleeps as usual. Double Espresso keeps it running with the lid closed, with no display and no charger, so a download or a build carries on in your bag. No account, no subscription, no telemetry. Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later, 13 languages.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- utility to keep macs awake with closed lids
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic sleep prevention uses standard macOS `caffeinate` or `IOPMAssertionCreateWithName`, keeping an Apple Silicon Mac fully awake and running with the lid closed on battery requires low-level private APIs or root/kernel-adjacent power assertions.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/Objective-C macOS menu bar app leveraging IOKit power management assertions (`kIOPMAssertionTypePreventUserIdleSystemSleep`). Keeping the machine awake specifically with lid closed on battery (bypassing macOS Clamshell mode restrictions) requires undocumented IOHID/IOPM interfaces or helper daemon privileges. Developers need deep knowledge of undocumented Apple Silicon power state mechanisms to avoid system panics or sleep enforcement.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 511 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #317 of 512 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Awakado · ph · 2026-10-06 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Keep My Screen On! · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Let It Brew · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Auto Mouse Mover - Anti Sleep · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
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