I wanted a terminal app built specifically for Claude code instead of merely running it. MOTHER treats Claude sessions as first-class citizens — launching them, resuming them, and telling you when they need you.
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The menu bar alert is the whole product and it's third in your own sentence. Launching and resuming are conveniences, the thing that actually costs me is walking away while Claude works and coming back twenty minutes after it stopped on a permission prompt. I'd rewrite the tagline around that and let the launcher be a bullet underneath. At $9.99 you don't need a feature list, you need one sentence someone recognises from their own week.
@asadmalik901 That's a great idea. Thanks for the advice!
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the alert only helps if i trust it, one false 'needs you' and i tune it out. how does it tell a real permission stop from claude just still thinking?
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shipped my entire product from claude code so this one hits home. question from my actual week: I usually run two or three sessions in parallel and the pain is knowing which one is waiting on me. does the menu bar alert say which session needs you or is it one generic ping?
@artem_t It specifies which session is waiting for your attention.
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@richard_rogers4 that settles it then, named alerts are exactly what parallel sessions need. good luck with the rest of launch day
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I run Claude Code mostly inside Windsurf when I want the editor context, and in a plain terminal for quick throwaway tasks. Does session resume work across that split, or is a MOTHER session only resumable from inside MOTHER itself?
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FATHER
The menu bar alert is the whole product and it's third in your own sentence. Launching and resuming are conveniences, the thing that actually costs me is walking away while Claude works and coming back twenty minutes after it stopped on a permission prompt. I'd rewrite the tagline around that and let the launcher be a bullet underneath. At $9.99 you don't need a feature list, you need one sentence someone recognises from their own week.
FATHER
@asadmalik901 That's a great idea. Thanks for the advice!
the alert only helps if i trust it, one false 'needs you' and i tune it out. how does it tell a real permission stop from claude just still thinking?
shipped my entire product from claude code so this one hits home. question from my actual week: I usually run two or three sessions in parallel and the pain is knowing which one is waiting on me. does the menu bar alert say which session needs you or is it one generic ping?
FATHER
@artem_t It specifies which session is waiting for your attention.
@richard_rogers4 that settles it then, named alerts are exactly what parallel sessions need. good luck with the rest of launch day
I run Claude Code mostly inside Windsurf when I want the editor context, and in a plain terminal for quick throwaway tasks. Does session resume work across that split, or is a MOTHER session only resumable from inside MOTHER itself?
FATHER
@aareldigital Only resumable from within the app itself. That's a good idea for additional functionality though. I'll have to investigate that.
What's the difference between this and Warp?