AI coding agents leave you with dozens of 30-second-to-3-minute waits a day, and most of them end in a phone detour that costs 20 minutes. Unwait is a macOS menu bar app that senses when Claude Code or Codex is working and shows one flashcard in the corner: language vocab, dev concepts, or news. The moment your agent finishes or blocks on a permission prompt, one click puts you back in the right terminal. The overlay never steals keyboard focus. No account. 14-day trial, then $1.99/month.
Hi Product Hunt. I use Claude Code all day, and the waits between prompts were eating my days: the agent runs for two minutes, I pick up my phone, twenty minutes disappear, and then I pay the context-switch tax on top.
Unwait fills exactly that gap. When your agent starts working, a small card appears in the corner of your screen: language vocab, a dev concept, or a news item. When the agent finishes, or stops to ask for your permission, the card flips to a ready strip and one click focuses the right terminal.
Rules I built it around:
- The overlay never steals keyboard focus. If it eats one keystroke while you type in a terminal, it deserves deletion.
- No infinite feed. One card, tap for the next, nothing autoplays.
- It always sends you back. The card is the bait; the return is the product.
Practical stuff: macOS menu bar app, works with Claude Code and Codex, no account (your license key arrives by email if you buy), 14-day trial, $6/month.
I wrote up the internals on the blog (the overlay that never steals focus, what Claude Code passes to hooks, why localhost needs auth) if you want the engineering side: unwait.ai/blog
Ask me anything, and tell me what is missing.
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