AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status
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Hi HN!I run a few Claude Code sessions in parallel and kept cmd-tabbing around just to find out one of them had been sitting on a permission prompt for ten minutes. There's a hardware gadget I liked (called SidePulse.io) so before waiting to get my shipment I built the software version instead :DI hope you like it and find it useful as I do!
HN · launched Aug 10, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agent session managers · 514 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · 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 A lightweight macOS desktop utility (written in Swift/SwiftUI or Electron) that monitors terminal processes/agent state and renders a custom overlay window next to the Dock can be vibe coded quickly.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: kitt (macOS app), SidePulse.io hardware
Concerns raised: Claude-only, not universal LLM support, Lack of visual documentation/screenshots
Feature requests: Live screenshot showing actual placement, Handle edge case with full-length dock positioning, Support for other LLMs beyond Claude
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 372 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #157 of 373 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Bestie, a coding agent that respects you · hn · 2026-09-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- cmux · hn · 2026-02-19 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Remy · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Beckon · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Awakado · ph · 2026-10-06 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- claude-io-guard · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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