Lockpaw

Quiet signal

Lock your Mac, close the lid, agents keep running

Launched 1mo ago

Signal

Velocity

What this means

30%Vote pace is below typical for Developer Infrastructure.

Running at 30% of comparable launches.

+68%Launching in a 68% WoW growing category.

Menu Bar Apps had 47 launches this week vs 28 last.

14Founder Conviction Index: 14 — low signal.

Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.

Prediction

Top-5 finish probability

today

Projected end-of-day votes

3range 2–4

Trajectory

stable

Vote pace holding steady.

Speed vs peers

0.3×

41 Developer Infrastructure launches

About

One hotkey covers your Mac's screen without sleeping it. Close the lid and Claude Code, Codex or Gemini keeps working. When one needs you, the locked screen glows and the alert says which agent and why. Touch ID to unlock. Free, open source, no analytics.

AI Summary

Lockpaw is an open-source menu bar application that allows users to lock their Mac's screen without putting it to sleep, enabling background processes to continue running. It features a hotkey for locking, alerts for active agents, and Touch ID for unlocking, all while ensuring user privacy with no analytics.

Attention & discussion velocity

Performance

Velocity0

Vote pace vs average

Momentum0

Sustained over 6h

Virality0

Spread × engagement

Engagement—

not measured

Signal sources

2 of 6 active

Launch tracking5 readings since we picked it up
AI analysisDeveloper Infrastructure
Comment intelligencethread not yet analysed
Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
Revenue signalsno match on this domain
Editorial scoringbelow the signal threshold for this pass

A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.