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A free menu bar app for macOS. After the idle time you choose, it moves the cursor by one pixel so Teams and Slack don't show you as away. No clicks, open source (MIT), signed and notarized by Apple. It warns you with an alert icon if it stops working.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm the developer of Hardly Working.
Teams kept flipping me to Away while I was reading a long spec or just thinking, only because I hadn't touched the mouse for a few minutes. So I built a tiny menu bar app that fixes exactly that.
How it works: it reads the macOS idle timer every 20 seconds. Once it passes the threshold you pick (2 to 10 minutes), it moves the cursor by one pixel and back. No clicks, and nothing happens while you're using the mouse. It also checks that macOS registered the nudge; if it didn't twice in a row, the menu bar icon turns into an alert, so it never fails silently.
Honest trade-off: while it's active, your Mac won't sleep or lock on its own, so lock it when you walk away.
Free and open source (MIT), signed and notarized, and also on Homebrew: brew install --cask blazmad/tap/hardly-working
I'd love your feedback, especially if your status still flips with another chat app.
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About Hardly Working on Product Hunt
“Teams says you're away. You were just reading.”
Hardly Working was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #244 on the daily leaderboard. A free menu bar app for macOS. After the idle time you choose, it moves the cursor by one pixel so Teams and Slack don't show you as away. No clicks, open source (MIT), signed and notarized by Apple. It warns you with an alert icon if it stops working.
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