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Hunter Walk

Caffeine - Keep your Mac from going to sleep

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Caffeine is a tiny menu bar app for Mac that prevents your display from going to sleep when the coffee icon is selected.

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eddie wharton
Exactly why PH is great. This is a useful tool, but not a venture backable company so it would never get TC attention.
Hunter Walk
Hunter
@EAWharton yup, one reason why I think the "VC found company XYZ on PH" will become a tired headline. Most products aren't VC-backable, and that's not a bad thing, so when we put emphasis on "fundable = worth discussing" we miss a whole bunch of smart people building interesting stuff. // @rrhoover
Ryan Hoover
@hunterwalk 100% agree. InstaNerd, a fun site with flashcards of interesting facts, is an example of this. It received over 150 upvotes and when @mightyalex was asked if it was a side project or business, he responded: "For now it's just a side project, but hopefully can grow into something bigger."
Hunter Walk
Hunter
@rrhoover awesome. maybe we can figure out an interesting way to continue filling the funding gap btw venture and SBA loans. like a Puddle or other loan mechanism for PHers.
Ryan Hoover
@hunterwalk ooo! A Product Hunt Puddle would be interesting. Think we can get 10k people to contribute $5/mo to help product builders create cool stuff?
Hunter Walk
Hunter
@rrhoover I'd definitely be interested in contributing to anything which helps people build products they're passionate about.
Hunter Walk
Hunter
Not new but new to me. Nice simple Mac application to let you toggle sleep mode on/off. Never let your Mac dim during a presentation again!
Ryan Hoover
@hunterwalk thanks for the reminder. I used to have this installed on my Mac before I reformatted.
Ellen Chisa
@hunterwalk yes! @harllee told me about this originally. Great for meetings.
Eric S. Kuhn
Have been using this app for years, yet I still find myself recommending it to someone about every two weeks when their screen goes to sleep during a presentation. I'm most impressed by the staying power of this application, and with no new features. Over all my devices, this might only be matched by instagram, another product that has only evolved in VERY small increments since its launch years ago, yet I still use it daily.
Mark Abramson
+1 for a really nice icon and toggle functionality. Empty cup = off. Steamy cup = active. p.s. nice comments @rrhoover @ZackShapiro @jonnotie
Zack Shapiro
@mark__a Thanks Mark!
Guy Gal
oooo purrtttty new comment functionality
Ryan Hoover
@guygal glad you dig it. :) h/t @ZackShapiro @Jonnotie
Ria Blagburn
Been using it for a while - really simple little tool!
Andrew Turnbull
This is the first app I install on a new computer. So simple, yet so handy.
Eric Metelka
Been using for years. Works exactly as described 100% of the time. Great program to keep on your menu bar.
julieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
can never have enough caffeine ;) great find!
Daniel Brusilovsky
Caffeine is one of the first apps I install on any new Mac that I setup. So clutch.
Andrew Brackin
I've been using Caffeine for years but rarely think about it, along with Flux.
Daren Fuchs
Ditto @brackin. One of my first installs on any new Mac I use.
Jonno Riekwel
Launching soon!
I've been using it for a while and it's been quite useful.
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Stephanie Luff
My #1 favorite app. I've been using this at least 5 years.
Nicholas Night
New to me! Love it.
Rob Wilson
I use it every day - never had an issue with it. There's a great submenu (right-click on the menu bar on the caffeine icon / cup) to choose the periods that you want your laptop to stay awake for - also you can choose indefinitely from there too.
Simona Andrieska
I really needed this! :)
Joseph Hurtado
It stopped working for me, not sure why, so I switched to Owly which works like a charm.
Ben
The kind of perfect little app I couldn't live without.