My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
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HN · launched Aug 27, 2026 · 88 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: api usage and rate limit monitoring · 75 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The tool inspects local Claude CLI/chat logs, token usage statistics, or local proxy requests to calculate token consumption and context window growth.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Other chatbots with free tier, freepi.ai (free AI inference), Weak models for code understanding tasks
Concerns raised: Token quota depletes very quickly with certain workflows, Status line monitoring slowly drains tokens, Unclear token usage tracking and billing, High token cost for large codebase operations, Expensive for complex multi-agent tasks
Feature requests: Token usage alerts/notifications before quota depletion, Ability to use weaker models for cheaper inference on subset tasks, Better token usage transparency and real-time tracking, Automatic context clearing recommendations
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 121 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 122 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.
- I put my Claude Code rate-limit burndown in the status line · hn · 2026-06-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I tried to reverse engineer Claude Code usage limits · hn · 2026-03-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ai-usage · ph · 2026-10-19 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Draw from your friends' Claude quota · hn · 2026-10-02 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Quota · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I got tired of writing release notes so I built a bot with Claude · hn · 2026-03-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I made a simple time card calculator · hn · 2025-11-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- agent-usage-guard · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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