GearMate
Switch Claude Code models with a real stick shift
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Details
- External ID
- 1266578
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- GearMate
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, Menu Bar Apps
Description
GearMate is a macOS menu-bar app that puts a stick shift on your live Claude Code session. Throw the lever into a gate and it sends /model to your tmux pane, so the next prompt runs on that model: Haiku for quick errands, Sonnet as the daily driver, Opus for heavy lifting, Opus Plan in 5th. R takes you back to your default. Remap gears, shift from the menu bar, preview with dry run. Needs tmux + Claude Code. Independent, not affiliated with Anthropic.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS utilities for coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- physical gear shifter for switching claude code models
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight macOS menu bar utility that accepts input and sends shell commands (like `/model` to a tmux session), achievable in Swift or Electron in a weekend.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #19 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 301 days after the earliest competitor.
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- NotchMate · ph · 2026-10-04 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Claudraband · hn · 2026-04-12 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- FXPro-RPM-Sync · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- carcode · ph · 2026-10-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Accordio · ph · 2026-09-11 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- TabDeck · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Edgee Mod for Claude Code · ph · 2026-10-11 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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