Hacktimer
Keeps JavaScript timers at full speed in background tabs
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Details
- External ID
- 1276517
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hacktimer
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions
Description
Keep your web apps running on time, even in background tabs. Chrome slows down the JS timers of every tab that is not in the foreground: timers run at most once per second, and after five minutes chained timers can drop to once per minute. Dashboards stop refreshing, monitors miss events, chats and web apps fall behind. HackTimer removes that limit. It moves each page's timers into a background worker that Chrome does not slow down, so they keep their exact timing while you work in another tab.
Enrichment
- Niche
- web browsers and extension tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- javascript timer library for background tabs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a well-known lightweight JavaScript utility/Web Worker hack (like the open-source HackTimer library) that overrides setInterval/setTimeout to bypass browser tab throttling.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #128 of 266 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
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