Menu bar recipes for indie makers

The number that pays for everything, in the corner of your screen. These use a read-only Stripe key and never touch anything that can move money.

A few of these recipes as live meters, on sample values.

3 recipes

Show today’s Stripe revenue in your Mac menu barToday’s Stripe sales in your Mac menu bar, net of refunds, from a read-only restricted key kept in the Keychain. Watch launch day add up. (Script meter)
Show your Stripe MRR in your Mac menu barMonthly recurring revenue from your active Stripe subscriptions in the Mac menu bar, with yearly and weekly plans normalized to a month. Read-only key in the Keychain. (Script meter)
Show your DigitalOcean bill in your Mac menu barYour DigitalOcean month-to-date usage in dollars, in the Mac menu bar, with an alert when it passes a budget. Uses doctl or the API with a read-only token. (Script meter)

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GitHub stars for your open-source project

Something else?

If it has a number, it can be a meter. Read it from a web address or JSON API, a shell command, a file, or send it with a multimeter:// link.

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Put it in your menu bar

$19.99 one-time. No subscription. Needs macOS 13 Ventura or later.