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PH · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 76 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Developer Tools
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial The phone status UI and cloud relay are standard, but reliable macOS power, thermal, and session control requires native system APIs and a companion mobile app.
What it would actually take: Build a Swift menu-bar app that wraps IOKit, pmset, and caffeinate-style assertions for sleep prevention, plus thermal and battery monitoring. Add a lightweight backend (e.g., WebSocket or push relay) and Swift/Kotlin mobile clients for live status. The hard part is dependable background power management across macOS versions, which needs someone comfortable with native system programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 533 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 534 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacSway · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Rein · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Hold Sleep · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Maccess · ph · 2026-08-22 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Pro System Monitor · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AimMac · github · 2026-11-07 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- iMCBridge – Remote Desktop · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MacAway · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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