Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep
Details
- External ID
- 47488939
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4108241082410824
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen privacy tool for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward macOS menu bar utility that listens for a global hotkey and displays a black fullscreen overlay window to shield the display.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: caffeinate (built-in macOS terminal command)
Concerns raised: Lid-closed sleep behavior not addressed by standard IOPMAssertion API, Whether it solves the same limitations as caffeinate
Feature requests: Workaround for MacBook lid-closed sleep when not connected to external display/power
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 459 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #248 of 460 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 132 days after the earliest competitor.
- SoloDisplay · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Pocket Screen · ph · 2026-07-17 · 207 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Drape · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PanicLock · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Glance Switch · ph · 2026-09-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- quietglass · github · 2026-09-20 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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