Salary Ticker
a macOS menu bar app that ticks up your pay
Details
- External ID
- 49167083
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Salary Ticker
- Website domain
- steveharrison.dev
- Launched
- Aug. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Sometimes I need a bit of extra motivation to get through the work day, so made a little macOS menubar item where you put in your daily rate (you can make it whatever you want, pre/post-tax/etc.) and it then shows you how much you've earnt today so far.I got Claude Code to also try to detect when the screen is being observed—it found a private macOS framework called SkyLight that has a function, `SLSIsScreenWatcherPresent`, that returns a boolean if any other process is observing the screen. It reckons that it's the same thing that Apple uses for the purple "screen is being observed" indicator. There’s a slight delay, but the masking triggers when I start screen recording (the very beginning of the recording needs trimming because of the delay).You can also option-click the item to manually mask it.
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- salary visualization for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward macOS menu bar app written in Swift/SwiftUI that performs basic math over a timer.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Calculate based on hourly rate
Competitors
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Attention rank: #201 of 217 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 248 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.