better-statusline
A status line for Claude Code: the session's figures as dot-matrix rings, and the music you are playing beside them
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Details
- External ID
- 1405436204
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- better-statusline
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 168
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.91
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer command-line tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- status line and media display for claude code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal status line that reads session stats and local media player APIs (like Spotify/Apple Music via AppleScript or MPRIS) is a straightforward CLI utility.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 461 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 462 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Umaro · hn · 2026-01-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Music Generation Backed by Algebra · hn · 2026-09-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- vibeclaude · github · 2026-10-07 · 158 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ClaudeStatsBar · github · 2026-09-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Linum · hn · 2026-02-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Claude Cognitive · hn · 2025-12-30 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- A small, simple music theory library in C99 · hn · 2026-02-19 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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