StaleMate PR
Your menu bar turns red when PRs pile up
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Your menu bar turns red when PRs pile up
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StaleMate is a tiny macOS menu-bar app that watches your GitHub & GitLab pull requests. The icon stays green when the queue is clean, fades yellow when reviews build up, and goes red when things start to rot. Up to 5 independent monitors. Native, sandboxed, $-friendly.
Hey, very useful product. Is this also available for Windows as well ? Are you planning to make this for some of the most popular OS as well ? Thanks
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@vikas_dalal1 Hey! Thanks for your comment, it's not currently available for Windows unfortunately but I plan to release it on Windows and Linux in the near future, you might see it pop on PH again soon!
@camille_chambefort Thanks for the info. Will be on the lookout ✌️
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Does it detect when a PR is blocked on you or waiting on someone else’s review?
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@thamibenjelloun Hi Thami! Currently there's no detection per se, it's only reporting and alerting (via push notification) when you are assigned a PR or when you have CI state change, conditions are customizable. However you can set one monitor for the PRs that were assigned to you for review and another one for your own so that you have a clear idea of what's pending your review and what's pending other people's review.
Simple, sharp idea — the kind of tool that solves a real daily annoyance without overengineering it. Built this solo, or with a small team? Always curious how indie devs scope these micro-tools.
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@martin_mo Hey Martin! I built this on my own with my spare time! In the beginning, to be honest, I was going to keep this extra simple and just use it myself and give it to my team. But after a few iterations, feedbacks and new features, I figured I might as well turn it into an actual product.
Most of the features are just deductions from my daily pain points as a developer in a medium sized team.
The menu bar warning is a simple but useful idea. PRs often go stale quietly, so making review debt visible before it piles up could help teams keep momentum.
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@farrukh_butt1 Hi Farrukh! Exactly, that's the spirit. Thanks for your comment!
The 5 independent monitors bit is probably what I'd use most. Slight worry: GitHub Enterprise + self-hosted GitLab auth edge cases get messy fast. Do tokens stay fully local in the sandbox, or is there any relay involved?
Love how this flips the usual "open GitHub to check" workflow into a passive ambient signal you can't ignore -- your menu bar becomes a guilt-free health check for your team's review hygiene.
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@ilko_kacharov Hey Ilko! Indeed, that's the spirit! Eliminate friction and distraction to stay up to date and focused!
Congrats on the launch. Love a tool that makes you feel the problem instead of just listing it in a dashboard. It's so easy to let that stuff slide to the bottom of the to-do list, and a red menu bar is a smart nudge.
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@suzychase Thanks Suzy, yeah that's exactly what I was going for, keeping the problem just visible enough to think about it without making it overly big!