AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status
Details
- External ID
- 49250486
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- pulse
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.739247311827957
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- led status indicator for macos dock showing agent activity
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #51 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Bestie, a coding agent that respects you · hn · 2026-09-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- cmux · hn · 2026-02-19 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- claude-io-guard · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Alien Desk · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- VibeDefend by CybeDefend · ph · 2026-09-28 · 273 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk · hn · 2026-05-01 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.