Hold Sleep
Close the lid. Work keeps going. Mac sleeps when done.
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Hold Sleep keeps your Mac awake only while real work is running: AI agents like Claude Code, big downloads, video exports and builds. It works even with the lid closed and lets your Mac sleep again the moment the work is done. No timers, no toggles.
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes This is a small macOS menu-bar utility that holds sleep assertions while tracked processes run. Swift and IOKit power-assertion APIs are accessible to a solo builder using AI-assisted coding.
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Attention rank: #142 of 536 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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