Tag: BurnRate

A few months ago I shipped the first version of BurnRate (and another version after that). It’s a macOS menu bar app that showed your Claude Code usage limits at a glance.

It solved a real problem: I didn’t want to stop what I was doing to type /usage every time I wondered how close I was to hitting my limits.

But Claude Code solved it better.

A few weeks back I shipped BurnRate. It’s a small macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude Code usage limits at a glance. It had a solid enough response and a some people dug it enough to use it daily (myself included, of course).

But there’s a problem: how do those people know when there’s a new version?

The answer, until now, was “they don’t.” They’d have to check in with me or the product page or just stumble into it.

Not exactly ideal

Two weeks ago, I was working with Opus 4.5 and, for the first time since working with Claude Code, I’d hit my limit for the model until it reset an hour later.

Yes, Claude Code has a /usage command to tell us exactly where we stand when using the project but if I have a set of agents or subagents working on something, I’d prefer not to interrupt their process to check usage. And if we stop them or stop what we’re doing to open yet another session just to check usage, it’s cumbersome.

I wanted something I could glance at without breaking focus and that’s exactly what BurnRate is.