Mac Server Mode
Turn your Mac into a 24/7 Home Server with screen off
What this is
A free Mac menu bar app that keeps the screen off while running Docker, Plex, or SSH servers 24/7 without burn-in.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Turns off the display while keeping the CPU awake, toggled by global hotkey
- Pricing
- free and open source
- Best for
- turning a Mac Mini or MacBook into an always-on home server
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 4 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Dev. Launched 4d ago on Product Hunt, picking up 1 votes. Today, it's live, but nothing on the site has changed since we started watching.
Quiet for 4 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Product Hunt with 1 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
Daily tracking just started for this launch — the first point is on the board. A second reading lands with tomorrow's run, and the curve builds from there.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Turn your Mac Mini or MacBook into a 24/7 Home Server! 🚀 Mac Server Mode is a free, native macOS Menu Bar app written in Swift. It turns off your display while keeping CPU awake, ensuring Docker, Plex, and SSH servers run 24/7 without screen burn-in. ⚡ Global Hotkey: Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + S 🔒 Mouse-proof background persistence 🚀 Universal Binary for Apple Silicon & Intel (0% CPU, <10MB RAM) 🛠️ 100% Free & Open Source on GitHub
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 1 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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