21d • 🛠️ Show Your Work
I kept running out of quota mid-build, so I built a menu bar app.
I kept running out of Grok, Codex, and Claude quota mid-build without realizing it until something broke.
The annoying part was having no single place to see what's left while I'm actually working.
So I built Usage Status for myself — a macOS menu bar app that shows usage remaining for each of the AI agent.
It reads from your local CLI sessions, shows percentages in the menu bar, and stays out of the way. Click for details. Hide providers you don't use. Reauthenticate when needed. No telemetry.
I didn't want to live in terminals just to check usage, so I packaged it properly: tests, DMG installer, in-app updates, then put it on GitHub free.
What I learned: personal builder tools only feel worth sharing when they remove a friction you hit every single day. This one did.
Free download (macOS):
Curious if this is useful or what provider you'd want added next.
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I kept running out of quota mid-build, so I built a menu bar app.
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