Brimline
A Mac menu-bar app that shows how much of your Claude session and weekly limits is left, when they reset and how long your current pace will last.
Challenge
People who work with Claude all day hit the 5-hour and weekly limits mid-task, with no warning and no idea when they reset.
Solution
- Limits at a glance: session and weekly limits in the menu bar, per-model limits, reset times, credits and spending cap, the subscription plan, and Claude’s service status on the icon.
- Forecast: “how long will this pace last” under every bar, with windows tuned on real usage samples.
- Alerts: configurable thresholds that don’t repeat after a restart.
- History: local usage history with a chart and six ranges.
- Design: a theme engine with ten themes, a colour palette that people with red–green colour blindness can tell apart, morning, demo and no-subscription states.
- Reliability: backoff on rate limits, request timeouts and polling deadlines, token expiry read from Keychain.
- Privacy and security: talks to three hosts only, reads the token without storing it, windows locked to local content, no telemetry, a strict list of dependencies allowed to run install scripts.
- Distribution: universal .dmg signed with Developer ID and notarised, a Mac App Store build, store pages and screenshots in 15 languages.
- Website: a landing page in 15 languages from one template, deployed automatically when main is green, with real app screenshots.
- Engineering: about 700 automated tests, ESLint across the codebase, pinned CI actions, lockfile guards, self-hosted macOS runner.
Result
Versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 are built, signed and notarised, with interface and store pages in 15 languages. The Mac App Store release is planned for 30 November 2026.