Shortfuse
Make macOS permissions expire automatically
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Details
- External ID
- 49995706
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10
- Tags
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Description
I used to get a little paranoid about the perms I was giving to apps, and them just keeping them. Especially, microphone (!!).So I made this Mac app that lets you schedule selected permissions to expire after 15 minutes, an hour, tonight, or when the app quits. You can also review permissions grouped by app and spot records left behind by deleted apps.MacOS 14+, Intel and Apple silicon.Demo and download:https://rygorlabs.com/shortfuse
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos system utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- auto-expiring permission manager for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and timers are straightforward, but manipulating macOS TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control) permissions programmatically without root exploits or MDM profiles requires low-level macOS system security knowledge.
What it would actually take: The app needs a Swift/Objective-C macOS daemon interacting with the `tccutil` CLI or directly querying and updating the SIP-protected TCC SQLite database (`/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db` or user domain). Because macOS strongly protects TCC databases via System Integrity Protection (SIP), writing automated permission expiration either requires Full Disk Access privileges, private system frameworks, or MDM configuration profiles. The challenge lies in safely intercepting and resetting these protected database rows programmatically.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: iOS support
Competitors
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Attention rank: #178 of 183 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 333 days after the earliest competitor.
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