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Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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"Follow me on X" Why... just why? Why do people keep insisting on using it?

The charitable explanation is "because that is where most people are." Network effect is real.

Was that ever true, even during the Twitter days?

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

#24
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.

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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The charitable explanation is "because that is where most people are." Network effect is real.

Was that ever true, even during the Twitter days?

I guess that depends on the scope. For people who like that flavor of social media, Twitter was where it was at, and X remains the main place. But if the scope is 'of all people' then of course it is not true -- most of us (myself included) never got into Twitter or any of the similar social media sites.

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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The charitable explanation is "because that is where most people are." Network effect is real.

Was that ever true, even during the Twitter days?

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Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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Speaking of the macOS menu bar, is there some way to make it overflow into a hidden area behind an "expand" button that would appear when there is no more room, like the notification area in Windows does? The macOS UI decision of "just pretend that whatever doesn't fit to the right of the notch doesn't exist" is baffling. I've seen a few apps that claim to do that, but it's always done in some really hacky way (such…

I used to use Bartender, which worked really well, until the newest version, which had so many issues. Since then, I've just basically put up with it.

The new version has improved a bit since launch, you may want to give it another try.
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