Porch turns your Claude Code and Codex work into daily, weekly, and monthly summaries by project, with estimated task time and blockers. See sessions across terminals and editors, know which need your attention, track tokens and API-equivalent costs, and save summaries as Markdown to Obsidian or any folder. Open source, with no Porch account required. Session status and usage stay on your Mac; summaries use your installed, signed-in Claude Code or Codex.
Hey Product Hunt! I built porch because I wanted a clearer picture of my own work with coding agents.
I use Claude Code and Codex across projects and terminals. By the end of the day, I wanted to know: What did I work on? Where did the time go? What got stuck? And which sessions still needed me?
Porch brings that into a Mac menu bar app:
• Work summaries: Daily, weekly, and monthly reports by project, with estimated time per task and blockers grounded in the records.
• Live sessions: See sessions across terminals and editors, including which ones are waiting on you.
• Usage: Track tokens, API-equivalent costs, and Claude/Codex usage limits.
• Markdown notes: Save summaries to an Obsidian vault or any folder you choose.
I recently open-sourced porch. You don’t need a Porch account or a server for your work records.
Session status comes from agent-reported events, rather than guesses based on conversation text. Session status and token/cost data stay on your Mac. Written summaries and evaluations send the records they need through your installed Claude Code or Codex to its model provider. Anonymous app usage analytics can be disabled in Settings.
Porch currently supports Apple Silicon Macs. Written summaries need Claude Code or Codex installed and signed in.
I’d love your feedback: Does the summary reflect what you actually worked on? And what would help you better understand how you use coding agents?
API equivalent cost is the number I'd be careful with here. If someone's on a Max plan that figure isn't what they spent, it's what they'd have spent going direct to the API, and people will read it as their bill. As a usage signal it's genuinely useful, as a cost it's a counterfactual. Worth labelling it that way in the UI before someone screenshots it as their spend.
About Porch on Product Hunt
“local project summaries and cost tracking for AI coding”
Porch launched on Product Hunt on October 9th, 2026 and earned 69 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #28 on the daily leaderboard. Porch turns your Claude Code and Codex work into daily, weekly, and monthly summaries by project, with estimated task time and blockers. See sessions across terminals and editors, know which need your attention, track tokens and API-equivalent costs, and save summaries as Markdown to Obsidian or any folder. Open source, with no Porch account required. Session status and usage stay on your Mac; summaries use your installed, signed-in Claude Code or Codex.
Porch was featured in Productivity (663.5k followers), Open Source (69k followers), Developer Tools (521.5k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 308.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Porch?
Porch was hunted by Jerry. 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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Jerry
Hey Product Hunt! I built porch because I wanted a clearer picture of my own work with coding agents.
I use Claude Code and Codex across projects and terminals. By the end of the day, I wanted to know: What did I work on? Where did the time go? What got stuck?
And which sessions still needed me?
Porch brings that into a Mac menu bar app:
• Work summaries: Daily, weekly, and monthly reports by project, with estimated time per task and blockers grounded in the records.
• Live sessions: See sessions across terminals and editors, including which ones are waiting on you.
• Usage: Track tokens, API-equivalent costs, and Claude/Codex usage limits.
• Markdown notes: Save summaries to an Obsidian vault or any folder you choose.
I recently open-sourced porch. You don’t need a Porch account or a server for your work records.
Session status comes from agent-reported events, rather than guesses based on conversation text. Session status and token/cost data stay on your Mac. Written summaries and evaluations send the records they need through your installed Claude Code or Codex to its model provider. Anonymous app usage analytics can be disabled in Settings.
Porch currently supports Apple Silicon Macs. Written summaries need Claude Code or Codex installed and signed in.
I’d love your feedback: Does the summary reflect what you actually worked on? And what would help you better understand how you use coding agents?
Download: https://getporch.pages.dev/
Source: https://github.com/amone-labs/porch