mac-insomnia
Ultra-lightweight, safe macOS lid-closed stay-awake CLI tool for AI agents, local LLMs, and background jobs
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 91%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- ai-agents
- apple-silicon
- caffeinate
- clamshell
- cli
- insomnia
- +3 more
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Yes A macOS CLI that keeps the machine awake with the lid closed is a wrapper around built-in tools such as pmset and caffeinate, with safety checks. A solo builder can vibe-code this in days.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1901 of 2012 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
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- caffeinate-plus · github · 2026-10-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- pilot-light · github · 2026-10-19 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Vehla · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NoSleepAgent · hn · 2026-06-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- cmux: the open source terminal built for coding agents · yc · 2026-03-03 · 736 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Insomnia-Modern · github · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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