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🧠 Native macOS menu-bar dashboard for AI coding: Claude / Codex / Gemini / Grok quotas with sleep-aware usage forecasts, AI egress IP & DNS-leak monitor, token & prompt-cache stats, orphaned MCP reaper. Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), English / 中文, zero dependencies.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 59%) · 1 view

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • ai-coding
  • antigravity
  • claude-code
  • codex
  • developer-tools
  • grok
  • +12 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The macOS menu bar UI and API quota scraping can be vibe-coded in Swift, but low-level DNS leak detection, egress packet inspection, and process management require specialized native OS programming and system privileges.

What it would actually take: Built with Swift/AppKit or SwiftUI for menu bar integration. The hard components involve low-level macOS system APIs (NetworkExtension or pcap/BPF filters for network egress monitoring, libproc for inspecting MCP child process memory and orphan states) while ensuring zero external dependencies and sandbox/entitlement compliance.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 260 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #137 of 261 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.

  • limitbar · github · 2026-10-21 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • vibe-usage · github · 2026-10-16 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Lookout · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • headroom · github · 2026-10-12 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • token-bar · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Notchmeter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Nova · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • codex-usage-badge · github · 2026-09-27 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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