Show HN: Headroom – Claude Code usage limits, live in the macOS menu bar

Category: cli-tool

Tags: macos, menu-bar, claude-code, usage-monitoring, rate-limits

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Headroom is a free macOS menu bar app that live-displays Claude Code's usage limits (5-hour and 7-day percentages) by reading local data from Claude Code's own status file, with zero configuration, no network calls, and no API key. It solves the practical problem of ambiently tracking rate limits to avoid mid-task interruptions, and its clean, trust-first design is interesting for Claude Code power users on macOS.

Target audience: backend devs, devops

Repository: https://headroom.walls.sh/

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