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A free macOS menu bar app for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive and GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers.

PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Mac
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a small macOS menu bar utility that queries launchd and the GitHub Actions API and reconciles the two states. It is a focused Swift app with well-documented APIs, which AI-assisted coding handles well.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 269 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #20 of 270 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Jog · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • ForcePush · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Bitrise Build Hub · ph · 2026-09-24 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • gitmanual · ph · 2026-11-10 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • CronMon: What runs on this Mac and when? · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • fleet · github · 2026-10-09 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • rungeist · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Gitwall for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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