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You're a developer, not a server. A macOS menu bar app that works out what you're doing and interrupts at a defensible moment instead of on a timer.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 63%) · 0 views
Niche: reminder and break tracking apps · 126 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- break-reminder
- developer-tools
- macos
- macos-app
- menubar
- menubar-app
- +5 more
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a native macOS menu bar app that queries public system APIs (NSWorkspace for active app, CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastInputEvent for idle time, and core audio input state) wrapped in a simple Swift UI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 460 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #271 of 461 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- WakeBee · github · 2026-10-13 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DevSweep · github · 2026-09-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar · hn · 2026-09-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Hardly Working · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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