MacMiniMode
Keep a plugged-in MacBook awake with the lid closed: clamshell mode without an external display, auto-off on battery. 让 MacBook 合盖不休眠，当 Mac mini 用。
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Details
- External ID
- 1408672361
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- MacMiniMode
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 160
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.91
- Tags
- apple-silicon, caffeinate, clamshell, clamshell-mode, headless, home-server, homelab, keep-awake, launchd, lid-closed, mac-mini, macbook, macos, macos-app, menu-bar-app, menubar, pmset, prevent-sleep, sleep, swift
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- clamshell mode utility for macbook without external display
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight macOS utility script or Swift menubar app that toggles macOS sleep assertion settings via IOKit (`IOPMAssertionCreateWithName`) and listens to power notifications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 332 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #73 of 333 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- SoloDisplay · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Extra Cup · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Auto Mouse Mover - Anti Sleep · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- LidPilot — Your Mac. On your time. · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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