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Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar

Details

External ID
49832470
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Timebar, a Mac timer shown as a thin line below the menu bar
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 24, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
7
Upvotes percentile
0.4393939393939394
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
macOS and desktop customization tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
menu bar timer for macos
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Timebar is a minimalist macOS utility that visualizes a countdown timer as a thin horizontal progress bar below the menu bar. This can be built in a weekend with Swift and standard AppKit window overlay APIs using an AI coding assistant.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: tmr

Feature requests: Integration with tmr Emacs package

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 341 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #171 of 342 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.

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