Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input
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Claude Code tends to be just slow enough you have time to tab away and get distracted. This plugin uses Claude Code's hooks to play music when Claude is waiting for user input so you don't just leave it sitting for 15 minutes.
HN · launched Dec 20, 2025 · 56 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: developer productivity and workflow management · 157 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple script hooking into CLI state change events to trigger a local media player command when input is needed.
Discussion
15 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Linear, Shortcut, Buildkite
Concerns raised: Latency becoming acceptable rather than fixed, Integration compatibility with Obra's superpowers plugin, Parallel task execution reliability with APC
Feature requests: Access to macOS Now Playing feature for pause/play control across apps, Integration with Linear and Shortcut task management systems, Fine-tune notification content customization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 488 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 489 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 52 days after the earliest competitor.
- Claude Notifications · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- claude-code-usage-quota-mod · github · 2026-10-04 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Velt Claude plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins · yc · 2026-03-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MindfulClaude · hn · 2026-03-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Claude Tune · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- claude-plugins · github · 2026-09-17 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Playlist · ph · 2026-10-20 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Claude Read Aloud · hn · 2026-09-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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