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I built a macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time via API after hitting limits mid-flow too often.
Signed and notarised by Apple. Open source.
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I loved the screenshot section of the readme followed by zero screenshots.
This is a great idea and a useful one for avoiding having to monitor Claude's consumption. I've often exceeded the limit mid-process. If I'm not mistaken, something like this already exists, but I like the graphics and how the information is displayed. Congratulations!
This looks great. What am I doing wrong? I downloaded it, installed, but all I see is a red X in the toolbar. When I click on it, it says "Authentication expired. Run 'claude' to re-aut..." so I run claude in terminal and still nothing...
Love it, installed and set it to run at Login. Can I follow you on any social media that isn't Xitter?
Interesting, but not original - a simple search shows at least a dozen same/similar (better?) solutions? Anything that yours does that those don't?
Just yesterday I was trying to figure out a method to accurately estimate my remaining usage for the five hour sessions for a shell script. It wasn't until I pointed Claude at your repo and had it make something based off of that that I got it to work well.
Thank you!
cool! I had to always go to claude settings for this.
I tried another alternative yesterday as I found myself hitting that /usage command too often and it didnt work too well but yours worked straight out of the box! Great job!
I built another tool that should have really been part of the core Claude Code CLI (which you may or may not find useful): https://github.com/agentic-utils/ccs
It lets you search and resume past Claude code conversations from anywhere.
Looks really cool
If I wanted to vibe code my own macOS menu bar apps is this a good starter project to use as a template?
Are there any others?
Do I just not need one (claude code can do it without a starter template at all)?
"Follow me on X"
Why... just why? Why do people keep insisting on using it?
Alternatively there's also this with 1.7k stars already and supporting more services (Despite the name): https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar (https://codexbar.app)