Mac menu bar app for Claude Code rate limits
Details
- External ID
- 47781940
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mac menu bar app for Claude Code rate limits
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Native macOS menu-bar app for tracking Claude Code usage and Anthropic service status. Built using Claude Code, naturally.
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- claude api rate limit monitor for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight macOS menu-bar utility that polls Anthropic's status page and local Claude CLI usage metrics is straightforward to create with Swift/SwiftUI or Electron using standard AI coding tools.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #198 of 218 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 151 days after the earliest competitor.
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