Show HN: Promptrack A local menu bar app that tracks your Claude Code usage

**Promptrack** appeared on Hacker News as a Show HN submission: a local menu bar app that tracks **Claude Code** usage. The product site is at promptrack.dev. The thread (item id 49014059) had 2 points and 0 comments at the time of this summary.

Technically, the pitch is narrow and concrete. It runs as a **local menu bar** app rather than a web dashboard or cloud service, and its stated job is usage tracking for **Claude Code**—not a general multi-tool analytics suite. That local, always-visible placement implies the builder wanted glanceable counters without leaving the desktop workflow where coding agents run.

For engineers and builders already paying for or rate-limiting **Claude Code**, local usage visibility is the practical gap. Agent sessions burn tokens in bursts that are hard to feel session-to-session; a menu bar tracker turns opaque consumption into something you can check between prompts, before a long refactor, or when comparing how heavy different tasks actually are.

In market terms this sits next to the broader wave of **Claude/Codex**-style coding agents and the tooling that grows around them. Show HN is the distribution channel here, not a large launch. Early traction is still thin—two points, no comments yet—so the product is at the “exists and is linkable” stage rather than a crowded category fight with named competitors in this summary.

What to watch next is whether **Promptrack** stays single-product (Claude Code only) or expands tracking surface, and whether the HN thread picks up real usage reports after the zero-comment snapshot. For anyone evaluating it now, the only actionable step is the site itself: open promptrack.dev, confirm the local menu bar model matches how you run **Claude Code**, and decide if usage tracking is worth installing before more public feedback appears.