NothingHere is a macOS panic button. One hotkey, three things happen at once: 1. All windows disappear — every app gets hidden instantly 2. All sound goes silent — music, videos, everything mutes 3. A cover document opens — your pre-configured "real work" file Your screen goes from "definitely not working" to "hard at work" in milliseconds. Guard Mode sits in your menu bar — when armed, you're always one key press from a clean screen. Free, open source, ~5.9 MB. macOS 15.0+.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I built NothingHere because we've all had that moment — someone walks up behind you and your screen is… not work-appropriate. Maybe it's a YouTube rabbit hole, maybe it's online shopping, maybe it's just Reddit. The frantic ⌘H, ⌘M, scramble-to-click-something dance never works fast enough.
So I made a single hotkey that does everything at once: hides all windows, kills the sound, and opens a boring-looking document. Done in milliseconds.
The latest feature is Guard Mode — it sits in your menu bar like a little cat standing guard. When it's armed, you're always one key press away from a clean screen.
It's completely free and open source. I'd love to hear your feedback and feature ideas!
So bascially command + F3 on mac with a document open behind your browser?
Love that it kills audio too — that's the detail most "boss key" tools miss. Alan's right though, the cover doc should probably be a terminal with Claude running these days 😄
So simple, so good. This would be nice for if I got one of those unlucky pops up while looking for sports streams. Nice job.
Love how simple and practical this is 😄
Curious — since it’s hiding all active windows and muting everything instantly, are there any edge cases where certain apps (like screen recordings or notifications) might still leak through?
Feels like those small things could break the illusion in real scenarios
Ah, you've triggered some ancient memories here. We used to call these "Boss key" to hide whatever game you're playing when the manager walks into the office.
Obviously, it's less needed these days with remote working from home, a multi-tasking OS that can change apps quickly, we can all very easily switch away from "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards" - or whatever other important non-work activity we're hiding.
Might be better making it look like a terminal running Claude or Copilot these days though :)
A very simple concept that offers an answer to a very old problem. I might not necessarily be the target group for this, but this still made me think of the many times I was caught red-handed doing something unrelated to work/study.
The genius of this lies in its simplicity, which is very hard to reach. (Might need to get used to this particular hotkey, but it will soon be a part of our muscle memory.)
Incredible light app/widget. I hope to put it to good use in the near future.
P.S. : I honestly think one additional update to this could be the option to enable a particular software application to boot up instead of a particular document. I believe there is scope to extend this app's use case towards general productivity by offering a trigger to instantly switch back to high priority tasks.
Shopping? Reddit? *pfft not me 🙈lol I really like the new Guard Mode — it would be so awkward having all visuals hidden but that YouTube audio still playing.
