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A Mac app that shows chip temperature and which AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) is heating your Apple Silicon Mac. One click moves busy work to the efficiency cores, so everything keeps running, cooler. $5 one time.
PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 107 upvotes (top 1%) · 2 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Menu Bar Apps
- Apple
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and a menu-bar app are buildable with Swift, but reading chip temperatures and per-core scheduling needs macOS low-level APIs (IOKit/SMC sensors, QoS and thread priority). Attributing heat to specific AI agent processes adds more systems work.
What it would actually take: Use Swift with AppKit or SwiftUI and IOKit or private SMC keys for temperature sensors. Move work between cores with pthread QoS or taskpolicy, and map processes to agents by name and child-process tree. It needs macOS systems expertise and testing across Apple Silicon models, since sensor keys and scheduling behaviour vary by chip.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 396 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 397 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 225 days after the earliest competitor.
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- pilot-light · github · 2026-10-19 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Remy · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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