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Downbar
Know the moment a service breaks, and the moment it's back
Downbar is a $2.99 macOS menu-bar app that watches 110+ public status pages. AI, cloud, dev tools, payments — and tells you the moment something goes down, and the moment it recovers.
Claude Code and the OpenAI API went down often enough that I caught myself about to bookmark both their status pages so I could check them faster. Then I realized that bookmarking a status page is a pretty grim way to live. And the annoying part isn't even the outage, it's the few minutes you spend assuming you broke something before it occurs to you to go check.
I didn't want to remember to check anything
So I built Downbar. It's a small menu bar app that shows a three-bar meter and changes color based on the worst status across the services you watch. Green when everything's fine, red when something you depend on is having a bad day. Click it for the list, and you get a native notification when something goes down and another when it comes back.
It reads public status pages. I seeded a catalog of a bit over 110 (AI APIs, cloud, dev tools, payments, that sort of thing) and you can paste any Statuspage, Instatus, or plain website URL on top of that.
That includes your own services. A plain URL just gets pinged for reachability and latency, so I keep my API's /health endpoint in there right next to the third-party pages. And if you want the alerts to land somewhere other than your menu bar, it can POST a webhook to Slack, Discord, or any endpoint on the same up and down transitions.
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About Downbar on Product Hunt
“Know the moment a service breaks, and the moment it's back”
Downbar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 15 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. Downbar is a $2.99 macOS menu-bar app that watches 110+ public status pages. AI, cloud, dev tools, payments — and tells you the moment something goes down, and the moment it recovers.
Downbar was featured in SaaS (42.8k followers), Developer Tools (515k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 124.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Downbar?
Downbar was hunted by Nathan Tarasiuk. 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.
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