Hey Product Hunt 👋 For the last year, I’ve been running long AI jobs, coding agents, and heavy deployment workflows on my Mac. As time went on, the problem wasn’t remote control. It was the constant anxiety of wondering: Did it finish? Did it crash? Is it stuck? Can I safely leave my desk? It got so bad that I literally started carrying my laptop around my house slightly open ("taco mode" 🌮) so it wouldn’t go to sleep while long-running tasks were still compiling, rendering, or downloading. At the same time, I was building AI infrastructure for another side project and realized I could use the same technology to supervise my own machine. That’s how Runwhile was born. With Runwhile, you can: 🔋 Keep your Mac awake remotely (even with the lid closed) 📸 Focus apps and get screenshots on demand 📊 Monitor battery, power, and system status 🤖 Run AI clipboard workflows 📂 Search, reveal, and download local files ⚡️ Jump into full remote control when needed 🛠 Under the hood (for the devs): Runwhile uses a hybrid deterministic workflow engine. LLMs handle intent understanding, while execution is delegated to fast, deterministic JavaScript extractors and native macOS tooling. What started as a simple WhatsApp bot I built over a weekend evolved into a full web app, installable PWA, native Mac agent, and distributed system after fellow engineers kept asking me to share it with them. I'm curious: Do other developers have this same problem, or am I just solving my own weird workflow? How do you keep track of long-running local jobs when you step away from your keyboard? I'll be around all day and happy to answer questions about the architecture, WebRTC, deterministic workflows, or why I thought carrying a Mac in taco mode was a reasonable solution 😄

Runwhile, Your Mac, from anywhere.

Supervise, automate, and control your Mac from anywhere.

Supervise, automate, and control your Mac from anywhere.