Hi Product Hunt, I made Stay Green.

The problem: Teams goes Away after about 5 minutes without keyboard or mouse input, and Slack after about 10. That's fine when you've left, but it's wrong when you're reading a long doc, sketching on paper, on a phone call, watching a training video, or working on a second computer. I call it the false Away.

Why the usual fixes don't work:

Amphetamine, Caffeine and caffeinate stop your Mac sleeping, but they don't reset the idle timer that chat apps read. You still go Away.
Mouse jigglers move your cursor around, fight you while you work, and are obvious when you share your screen.

What Stay Green does instead:

Only once you're idle, it sends one inert keypress (F20, which no Mac keyboard has) and a zero-distance mouse event. That resets the idle timer for every chat app at once.
The cursor never moves, and it does nothing while you're working.
Set your work hours and it can pause itself outside them, so it isn't for faking a 14-hour day.
It never reads or logs your keystrokes and never looks at your screen. No account.

14-day free trial, no card and no account. Then EUR 1.99/month or EUR 12.99/year. For a limited time during the 1.0 launch there's also a one-time EUR 29 lifetime license. Product Hunt code LAUNCH30 takes 30% off the first year of the yearly plan, until Nov 22.

One honest note: some workplaces have policies on activity tools, so check yours. It's built for the "I'm here, just not at the keyboard" case.

It runs on Windows 10 and 11 too, same license. Feedback of any kind is welcome, and I'm answering every comment today.

Hi Product Hunt, I made Stay Green.

Why the usual fixes don't work:

Amphetamine, Caffeine and caffeinate stop your Mac sleeping, but they don't reset the idle timer that chat apps read. You still go Away.
Mouse jigglers move your cursor around, fight you while you work, and are obvious when you share your screen.

What Stay Green does instead:

Only once you're idle, it sends one inert keypress (F20, which no Mac keyboard has) and a zero-distance mouse event. That resets the idle timer for every chat app at once.
The cursor never moves, and it does nothing while you're working.
Set your work hours and it can pause itself outside them, so it isn't for faking a 14-hour day.
It never reads or logs your keystrokes and never looks at your screen. No account.

One honest note: some workplaces have policies on activity tools, so check yours. It's built for the "I'm here, just not at the keyboard" case.

It runs on Windows 10 and 11 too, same license. Feedback of any kind is welcome, and I'm answering every comment today.

Stay Green

Stop false Away in Teams and Slack, without a jiggler

Stop false Away in Teams and Slack, without a jiggler