Lockpaw
Lock your Mac, close the lid, agents keep running
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Details
- External ID
- 1272733
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lockpaw
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.90
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Description
One hotkey covers your Mac's screen without sleeping it. Close the lid and Claude Code, Codex or Gemini keeps working. When one needs you, the locked screen glows and the alert says which agent and why. Touch ID to unlock. Free, open source, no analytics.
Enrichment
- Niche
- calendar scheduling and reminder apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac background process manager for locked screens and closed lids
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It requires low-level macOS system APIs to prevent sleep on clamshell close, manage custom lock screens, hook into Touch ID authentication, and interface with background agent processes.
What it would actually take: Building Lockpaw requires native Swift/Objective-C development using IOKit (specifically IOPMAssertionCreateWithName to prevent system sleep on lid close), private/low-level CoreGraphics APIs for screen locking overlay windows, and LocalAuthentication for Touch ID integration. The app also needs a daemon or IPC listener to monitor local CLI agent status and trigger macOS visual notifications while the display is locked. A developer needs deep systems programming experience with macOS power management, display servers, and security entitlements.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 335 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #66 of 336 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Awakado · ph · 2026-10-06 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Adrafinil · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- PanicLock · hn · 2026-04-17 · 265 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Don't Lock My PC · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Pushary · ph · 2026-07-24 · 330 upvotes · similarity 0.54
Other launches for this product
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