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Run Claude Code in a few repositories at once and one of them will stop and wait, silently, in a window you are not looking at. Hawky keeps watch from the menu bar: it counts the sessions waiting for your permission, lists the ones waiting for your next prompt, and shows how many are still working. One click, or Ctrl-Option-H, brings that session's tab in Cursor or VS Code to the front, even behind merged macOS tabs. Approve or reply and it clears itself. Free and open source.

PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GitHub
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a macOS menu bar app that watches Claude Code sessions through its hooks or log files and counts those waiting for input. It is a small native app built with SwiftUI or AppKit.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 638 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #429 of 639 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Lunavect · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • Claude Watch · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • ESP32 Claude Code Monitor · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Lightkeeper · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Atalay's Terminal · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Cid to Claude · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • claude-term · ph · 2026-10-19 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • lmux · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53

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