Show HN: Mac menu bar app for Claude Code rate limits

Category: devtools

Tags: macos, menu-bar, monitoring, claude, developer-tools

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

A native macOS menu bar app that monitors Claude Code usage and Anthropic service status by reading a JSON file written by a terminal statusline hook. It's interesting because it provides a convenient, always-visible dashboard for developers actively using Claude Code in their terminal workflow, with a clean SwiftUI implementation and no external dependencies.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, ai-ml engineers

Repository: https://github.com/elliotykim/claudewatch · Swift · MIT · 7 stars

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