Know if your Mac's GitHub Actions runners will get work
A free macOS menu bar app for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive and GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers.
Hi everyone, I'm Pedro, and Standfast is my side project.
If you host a GitHub Actions runner on a Mac, you may know this one: ./svc.sh status still says Started, but GitHub has stopped sending it jobs. You find out when someone asks why a build has been queued for an hour.
Standfast checks both sides on every refresh: launchd for the process, the GitHub API for the registration. When the process is running but GitHub has the runner offline, it shows Disconnected instead of looking healthy.
It also shows how long the current job usually takes, what's queued for repository runners (with a token), and how much disk work and diag use, with a cleanup that never touches checkouts.
Free, MIT-licensed, no telemetry of its own, macOS 14 or later:
brew install --cask perafan18/tap/standfast
One question: when one runner is busy and another is disconnected, the menu bar icon shows busy, because a running build is usually what someone is waiting on. Would you rather it showed the warning first?
About Standfast on Product Hunt
“Know if your Mac's GitHub Actions runners will get work”
Standfast launched on Product Hunt on October 26th, 2026 and earned 72 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #24 on the daily leaderboard. A free macOS menu bar app for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It asks launchd whether each runner is alive and GitHub whether it still counts on it, and never mixes up the two answers.
On the analytics side, Standfast competes within Mac, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 667.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Standfast performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Standfast?
Standfast was hunted by Pedro Perafán Carrasco. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Standfast including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Pedro Perafán Carrasco
Hi everyone, I'm Pedro, and Standfast is my side project.
If you host a GitHub Actions runner on a Mac, you may know this one: ./svc.sh status still says Started, but GitHub has stopped sending it jobs. You find out when someone asks why a build has been queued for an hour.
Standfast checks both sides on every refresh: launchd for the process, the GitHub API for the registration. When the process is running but GitHub has the runner offline, it shows Disconnected instead of looking healthy.
It also shows how long the current job usually takes, what's queued for repository runners (with a token), and how much disk work and diag use, with a cleanup that never touches checkouts.
Free, MIT-licensed, no telemetry of its own, macOS 14 or later:
brew install --cask perafan18/tap/standfast
One question: when one runner is busy and another is disconnected, the menu bar icon shows busy, because a running build is usually what someone is waiting on. Would you rather it showed the warning first?