claude-quota
Dev tools
usage monitor
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How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple single-file approach
From 1 comment
It's literally a single file that only supports multiple Claude instances :) so I guess simplicity
grzracz on HN
Objections
Piping curl to bash installer is unsafe
From 2 comments
> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8/claude-quota/main/install.sh | bash Can we stop with this way of installing things? This is already on brew…
artdigital on HNI need to turn this into a blog post at some point: Some of my early bad experiences with Linux arose because I installed software in ways that broke the system quite…
bityard on HN
Questions
How does it fetch quota data: CC process output or an API?
From 1 comment
how does this pull the quota data? reading from the CC process output or is there an actual API for it?
tuo-lei on HN
Alternatives named
CodexBar
From 2 comments
I use CodexBar, which supports more providers: https://github.com/steipete/codexbar
rippeltippel on HNWhat is benefit of this over https://github.com/steipete/codexbar?
cute_boi on HN
Claude Code custom status line
From 2 comments
I recommend people just update their Claude Code status line so that changes like this are in Claude Code itself.…
tyleo on HNTheir documentation explains how to customize CC statusline and display the quotas: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline#rate-limit-usage
Doublon on HN
codeburn
From 1 comment
I use codeburn, has both terminal and menu bar versions. Works quite well - https://github.com/getagentseal/codeburn
BowBun on HN