Crest
Answer Claude Code approvals from your MacBook's notch
Details
- External ID
- 49819868
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Crest
- Website domain
- crestnotch.app
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.32854864433811803
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macbook notch approvals for claude code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight macOS menu bar / notch overlay app in Swift that intercepts CLI hook events or watches local socket/IPC communications and presents simple Allow/Deny UI.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 160 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #104 of 161 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.
- I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard · hn · 2026-04-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Drop Notch · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- MacNotch · ph · 2026-03-26 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota · hn · 2026-06-10 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Notchmeter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ESP32 Claude Code Monitor · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Iantha · hn · 2026-06-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Computer Use in Claude Code · ph · 2026-03-31 · 442 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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