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Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Haha, in that case it sounds like an article I could actually handle. By the way, is it better to go with an article or short-form video?

Film video, transcribe, edit to become article? I'm of an age where I rarely watch short-form videos so would read the article but you'll miss an audience if that's all you produce.

Okay, sounds good — if I manage to do it, I’ll send you a message

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Check directory ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl ;) hah very interesting topic. I have a plan to write blog post about it (all conversations history with metadata inside json lines files) What do you think about this idea? Interesting?

Is there anyway to ensure these logs are output in a current project folder? Would like to store a copy in git for reference

Yes in next relesase with duckdb, We will have the possibility of a simple export

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#33
post #14

How it does it monitor usage?

I keep the credits page open and refresh it from time to time, because I honestly only care about money, not about tokens whatever these are.

This tool is for plans with a fixed cost — like Pro Max x5 or x10 — not for API usage.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Check directory ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl ;) hah very interesting topic. I have a plan to write blog post about it (all conversations history with metadata inside json lines files) What do you think about this idea? Interesting?

It's definitely interesting. Probably, one could also see how much of the context is unnecessary to optimise usage. I wonder if one could also detect whether cache was used.

Yes, cache write and read is available to fetch i can add new flag to view this values, please create issue in repository with this idea https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor...

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#36
post #25

This is pretty cool.. I like the idea, could I make a semi-snarky feature request and could we add the estimated power consumed to produce results for each session ?

Greta would be proud, but I’m not sure how the number of tokens relates to energy consumption.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#37
post #13

Claude is cool, they focus on cool and useful things. But man do I just want a way to quickly glance at my API credits and to just occasionally chat with a model from those credits without librechat of openwebui. Or set some limits, or see some usage metrics. And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3…

I can write a blog post about this, plus in the next release, DuckDB will be implemented along with a slightly more advanced max tokens algorithm.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

#38

This is great. I built a UI tool to run simultaneous Claude Code sessions ( https://github.com/stravu/crystal ) but by working on multiple features at once I hit the limits of my max account. Usually close to the reset, but it would be nice to know when it is time to take a break.

Please write for me on github or create issue https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor... and we can try integrate your tool with usage monitor

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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post #29
post #16

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>And please please use "forever auth" with passkeys or something, what is up with that auth email that just takes ages for a quick glance?! It always takes me 3 attempts to find what address I used at sign-up... As a person with the simple but brilliant technology of a freaking password manager, I LOATHE email to login/no-password websites. They are dreadful, we've somehow managed to come up with something worse in U…

I used to think the same thing, and I still want a login/password alternative for me. But after seeing normies use online accounts and the trouble they have with password managers, I realized one of my friends had the most secure process: she would create extremely high-entropy passwords everywhere, but not remember them. Once she's logged out of her sessions after a couple of months, she uses the password forgotten…

yeah, I find it annoying, but it's a simple way of making something secure, piggyback on something that already made a decent effort at trying to being secure enough.
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