I put my Claude Code rate-limit burndown in the status line
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HN · launched Jun 8, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 50%) · 0 views
Niche: api usage and rate limit monitoring · 75 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight shell script and Claude Code skill that formats terminal status strings by reading local git/session stats and Anthropic API token counters.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude Code
Concerns raised: Rate limits causing work interruption, Context window limits not clearly visible, Budget tracking opacity leading to unexpected cutoffs
Feature requests: Increase text contrast on blog, Better visibility of context/token usage in status line, Clear display of rate limit budget remaining and reset time
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 230 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #106 of 231 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 206 days after the earliest competitor.
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