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
- —
- 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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- ratio · github · 2026-09-13 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- sigstop · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ellipsis · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WandelBar · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Termini · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Lockpaw One hotkey to cover your Mac screen without putting it to sleep · hn · 2026-03-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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