WatchMe is a small macOS menu-bar app I built: it lists your running processes, you tick the ones you...
WatchMe is a small macOS menu-bar app I built: it lists your running processes, you tick the ones you care about, and it notifies you the moment one of them exits. Start a long build, go do something else, get told when it's done. That's the whole product.
It was an Electron app for about two years. Last week I moved it to Tauri 2, and the number that started the whole thing was this one:
$ du -sh dist/mac-arm64/WatchMe.app
289M dist/mac-arm64/WatchMe.app
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