I launched a tiny macOS tool yesterday and woke up to 100+ installs

Yesterday I shared a small tool I was working on with friends called TokenBar and the response honestly surprised me. When I started building it, the goal was simple. While working with the OpenAI and Claude APIs I kept running into the same problem during development: token usage is basically invisible while you're actually coding. You run prompts. You test agents. You debug requests. Everything works… but you have no quick way to see how many tokens you're burning until you check dashboards later. After accidentally burning more tokens than expected during prompt experiments a few times, I wanted something extremely simple: a small indicator that shows token usage live while I'm developing. So I built TokenBar, a macOS menu bar utility that shows token usage in real time when working with LLM APIs. The idea is basically to treat token usage like a system metric — something you can glance at while you're coding. No dashboards. No heavy analytics tools. Just a small counter sitting in