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NearBye
Your Mac locks the moment you walk away
NearBye watches how near your iPhone is and locks your Mac when you leave the room. It uses Bluetooth signal strength, so any device with BLE support works. Apple Watch or Touch ID unlocks it when you're back. Menu bar app, no account, no internet required, no subscription — $4.99 once on the Mac App Store.
Top comment
Hi PH 👋 I'm Batmend, I build small Mac apps from Ulaanbaatar. NearBye exists because I never once locked my Mac before getting up for coffee. Not once, in years. I didn't need a better habit, I needed the laptop to notice. So: it watches your iPhone's Bluetooth signal, and when you're a room away it locks. You come back, your Watch unlocks it, and you never think about the app again. You pick "steps away / a room away / far away" instead of tuning dBm (which you can totally do if you want to) Three things I want to be upfront about, because this category oversells hard: 1. It doesn't unlock. App Store sandboxing means no app can type your password. Some apps fake this with an overlay window. I'd rather lean on Apple Watch or Touch ID to unlock, which are already instant and actually secure. 2. There's a ~10–20 second grace window. You can configure it to be as low as 1 second if locking is a top priority, but remember that Bluetooth is noisy. 3. Nothing leaves your Mac. There's no networking code in the app at all. No account, no analytics, no server for me to breach. $4.99 once. Happy to answer questions :)
About NearBye on Product Hunt
“Your Mac locks the moment you walk away”
NearBye was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #110 on the daily leaderboard. NearBye watches how near your iPhone is and locks your Mac when you leave the room. It uses Bluetooth signal strength, so any device with BLE support works. Apple Watch or Touch ID unlocks it when you're back. Menu bar app, no account, no internet required, no subscription — $4.99 once on the Mac App Store.
On the analytics side, NearBye competes within Privacy, Lifestyle and Security — topics that collectively have 15.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how NearBye performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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NearBye was hunted by Batmend Ganbaatar. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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