Yesterday Anthropic reset the 5-hour and weekly rate limits for every Claude user. The announcement tweet has 3.2 million views. I saw it at 1:18am on my phone, with 14% battery, about 5 hours after it happened.
A reset like that is basically free quota. If you were anywhere near your weekly cap, you got a clean slate. I missed most of my evening window because I simply didn't know, and I even have Twitter notifications turned on for @ClaudeDevs. Didn't help.
So, field notes on what I did about it. Two parts: finding out in time, and not burning the window once you have it.
Part 1: my phone now tells me
I didn't want another app. I wanted a push notification that says "limits got reset, go use them". Turns out you can get pretty far with three public feeds and ntfy.sh, which is a free push service that needs no account:
