Modafinil
Let agents continue running while MacBook lid is closed
Details
- External ID
- 48080675
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Modafinil
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6865912762520194
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- keep ai agents running with macbook lid closed
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a macOS utility that prevents sleep mode when the laptop lid closes, which can be implemented with a small Swift or Objective-C wrapper around standard IOKit power management APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Amphetamine (macOS App Store app), caffeinate (built-in macOS command), Amphetamine Enhancer
Concerns raised: Name conflicts with pharmaceutical drug Modafinil, pollutes search results, App Store policy restrictions on sleep prevention features, Display doesn't turn off when lid closes with certain settings
Feature requests: Turn off display when closing lid while preventing sleep, Better display sleep behavior configuration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 167 days after the earliest competitor.
- Adrafinil · hn · 2026-06-27 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- agents-dont-sleep · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- NoSleepAgent · hn · 2026-06-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Mac-Agent-Beacon · github · 2026-09-11 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- macOS VMs to let you agents run wild · hn · 2026-04-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Capsomnia · ph · 2026-07-25 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SoloDisplay · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- OpenBoot · hn · 2026-02-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.