A MacOS panic button where one key press cleans your screen
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!
About NothingHere on Product Hunt
“A MacOS panic button where one key press cleans your screen”
NothingHere launched on Product Hunt on March 2nd, 2026 and earned 319 upvotes and 28 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. 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+.
On the analytics side, NothingHere competes within Mac, Open Source, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 225.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how NothingHere performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted NothingHere?
NothingHere was hunted by soLee. 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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