Idea feedback: save and run scripts from the menu bar
https://www.getbidbar.com/
Hello IH!
I'm looking for feedback on a product called Bidbar (https://www.getbidbar.com/ - feel free to critique the landing page as well!).
Bidbar is a Mac menu bar app that allows you to save Terminal commands that you frequently use in the menu bar, run them with a simple click and/or keyboard shortcut, and view their output in a minimal window. You can pretty much save any script you want, such as starting up a Node project or running a Python script to fetch the latest stock prices.
Would this help your productivity while programming or even in other situations? Please let me know if you have any thoughts, feedback, or questions. Thanks!
#idea-validation #landing-page-feedback
As a fellow programmer, this is cool. I love tiny apps/tools that do big things to improve productivity. Nice and simple. Nice work.
Definitely like the idea. I've created a few things that I installed as global npm packages with cli commands, so this is something I would use.
Love the idea. I think it will become super powerful if you integrate it with terminal history, where "Creating a script" will be just as easy as hitting a button.
Definitely a cool idea. Solid if you're not using Alfred (redundant if you are). Karabiner and Hammerspoon are pretty advanced if you wanted to do something similar, so can see how this would make it a ton more accessible for folks that aren't hip to all of that other stuff I've mentioned.
While I like the idea, as a Linux/GNOME user I wouldn't be a customer :P
Keep it up though, page looks sharp!
Thanks! I actually originally planned on making it available for Linux and Windows by using Electron, but halfway through I realized that doing so would make the app excessively large :/ (100MB+)
oh yeah, bloat for days... GNOME has a pretty solid plugin system (it's all javascript) wouldn't shock me if there's..... yeah, there's quite a few. this one looks pretty cool:
https://github.com/lucaskenda/handyscripts