StackGauge
See which AI tool is about to stop you
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Details
- External ID
- 1274328
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- StackGauge
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 4
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.93
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, Menu Bar Apps
Description
StackGauge shows how much of your Claude Code and Codex limits are left, which one is closest to stopping you, and when each resets. Pin the tool you care about, or let it surface whichever is running low. Everything stays on your Mac.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS utilities for coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai rate limit and usage tracking for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a native macOS menu bar app (built in SwiftUI or Electron) that reads local auth tokens or config caches and periodically queries vendor usage/rate-limit endpoints.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 173 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 174 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- Limit Tracker · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- AI Usage Tracker · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Refill · ph · 2026-10-07 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- CoIsland · ph · 2026-09-30 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Codex Usage · ph · 2026-09-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Termaxa · ph · 2026-10-08 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- brow · github · 2026-10-04 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Harness Manager · ph · 2026-09-24 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.46