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Stargazer Bar
Watch your GitHub stars climb, live in your menu bar
Ship something, then watch it take off. Stargazer Bar shows your GitHub repo's stars and forks trending live in your Mac menu bar — an actual history from background checks as often as every 10 minutes, not a snapshot. Share a milestone screenshot or X post from the menu. Also tracks release downloads, a maintainer radar (CI/PRs/issues), and any public repo — no GitHub account required.
Hey PH! I built Stargazer Bar because I kept alt-tabbing to GitHub every few minutes after a launch just to see if the star count had moved.
It's a small native macOS app that lives in your menu bar: a live trend chart for every repo you track — not just a current count, an actual history, because it polls in the background as often as every 10 minutes. During a launch you can actually watch the slope, not just refresh a number. Cross a milestone and copy a share image or compose an X post straight from the menu.
It's also useful day to day if you maintain a project — release download totals, and a "maintainer radar" for CI failures, new PRs, and unanswered issues. And since tracking works on any public repo with no GitHub account required, you can point it at a dependency or a project you're just rooting for, not only your own.
It's open source, notarized, has no backend and no telemetry (tokens live in Keychain), and updates itself via Sparkle.
Would love feedback — especially from anyone who's mid-launch right now.
About Stargazer Bar on Product Hunt
“Watch your GitHub stars climb, live in your menu bar”
Stargazer Bar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #65 on the daily leaderboard. Ship something, then watch it take off. Stargazer Bar shows your GitHub repo's stars and forks trending live in your Mac menu bar — an actual history from background checks as often as every 10 minutes, not a snapshot. Share a milestone screenshot or X post from the menu. Also tracks release downloads, a maintainer radar (CI/PRs/issues), and any public repo — no GitHub account required.
On the analytics side, Stargazer Bar competes within Open Source, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 122.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Stargazer Bar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Stargazer Bar?
Stargazer Bar was hunted by Alexander M. 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 Stargazer Bar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Alexander M