Notch Metrics

Notch Metrics is a native macOS app that puts your revenue, MRR and subscriber numbers in your MacBook's notch. Instead of opening a dashboard, a tab or a spreadsheet, you look up at the camera housing and the number is already there. The product is aimed at founders, builders and marketing people who check the same handful of figures every day and want them closer than a browser tab. It pulls numbers from the payment, analytics and code platforms you already use and turns them into widgets that live in the notch: the strip expands over whatever you are doing when you rest the pointer on the camera housing, and folds back to the shape it had when you leave. The tagline on the site sums up the intent directly — every number you check, in the notch. The problem it addresses is the daily routine behind those numbers. MRR lives inside Stripe, today's takings inside Polar, trials inside RevenueCat, stars and open issues inside GitHub, traffic inside Plausible or Google Analytics. Checking them means opening a dashboard, finding the right tab and repeating that several times a day, which turns a five-second question into a context switch. Notch Metrics takes the opposite approach. Rather than building another destination to visit, it puts the figures in the one place a laptop user already looks at constantly — the notch at the top of the screen — so a glance replaces a visit. The site describes the payoff in plain terms: look up, and the number is already there, and the recent-payments feed means you see who just paid without opening a dashboard. The core of the product is the widget strip in the notch. Revenue, subscribers and today's takings sit side by side, and the app keeps nine widgets open at a glance while, in the site's words, the island still reads in a second. Each widget is bound to a source and a metric: the examples shown include a Stripe MRR tile reading $12,480 with +4.2% vs last month, a Stripe subscribers tile at 318, a Polar "Today" tile at $640, a GitHub stars tile at 2,104, a RevenueCat trials tile at 27, a RevenueCat active subscribers tile at 1,208 with +38 this week, a Dodo Payments revenue tile at $3,920 with +11% vs last week, a Dodo Payments orders tile at 146 and a GitHub open issues tile at 14. Widgets come in four tile sizes, from a single square up to the full width of the notch, and you drag to arrange them and resize them in place, inside the notch itself. Two details make the notch format practical rather than gimmicky. First, the strip opens on hover: rest the pointer on the camera housing and the notch expands over whatever you are doing, and when you leave it folds back to the shape it had. There is nothing to launch, click or dismiss. Second, the widgets are not only numbers. A recent-payments feed sits beside the headline figures, listing entries such as "Pro · yearly $79" and "Pro · monthly $19", so you can see who just paid without opening a dashboard. Between the tiles and the lists, the notch covers both the trend and the individual event — the monthly figure and the payment that just landed. Notch Metrics connects to 16 live sources. The connectors named across the site include Stripe, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy, RevenueCat, Shopify, Plausible, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel, GitHub, YouTube, Claude and OpenAI. They are deliberately mixed in type: payments beside analytics beside code, on the same strip of glass, so a Stripe tile can sit next to a Plausible tile next to a GitHub tile. Dimmed marks on the site are sources on the way, and the site states that a new one arrives without an app update. Connecting happens on the web: connect a source once, and every Mac you own picks it up. Underneath, Notch Metrics is a small native app written in Swift, built for Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later. It has no dock icon, no window and, in the site's phrasing, no menu bar clutter while you work, and it is described as light on memory and on your battery. Metrics are fetched and normalised by the company's servers on a schedule, which is why a subscription is per account rather than per machine, and why your connections and layout are already there when you sign in on another Mac. Provider keys are handled carefully: a key is encrypted the moment you paste it, with a key of its own, and your account, the integration and the provider are bound into that encryption so a row copied anywhere else decrypts to nothing. The key never leaves the server — Notch Metrics calls Stripe for you and hands your Mac a number, which is all any app on it could find — and disconnecting an integration deletes its encrypted key with no second copy anywhere to clean up. Every plan also includes custom metrics authored by your own coding agent over MCP, which the Product Hunt listing frames as using Claude Code to build analytics widgets for your notch. The benefits follow from that design. You stop paying the cost of a context switch for a question that takes a second to answer, because the figure is already in the notch rather than behind a login. The app stays quiet while you work — no dock icon, no window, no menu bar clutter — and only takes visual space when you deliberately hover. Because every connector is included with no per-integration charge, you are not choosing between tracking revenue or tracking product analytics; the same strip can carry both. Because the layout syncs between Macs, the setup follows you rather than being rebuilt machine by machine, and updates are signed and notarised for as long as you subscribe. Concrete use cases come straight from the widgets and sources described. A founder starts the day by hovering the notch to read MRR and its +4.2% vs last month against the subscriber count, then leaves the strip folded away. After a launch, a recent-payments feed of Pro monthly and yearly entries shows who just paid without opening a payments dashboard. A marketer keeps Dodo Payments revenue for the last seven days next to Plausible traffic and Google Search Console. A developer keeps GitHub stars and open issues beside the same revenue tiles, since code activity and business activity share one strip. Someone running an app business watches RevenueCat trials and active subscribers tick up week over week. And anyone with a second Mac signs in and finds the same connections and the same layout waiting. Target users are named on the site as builders, founders and marketing. The integrations list covers payment platforms (Stripe, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, Lemon Squeezy, RevenueCat, Shopify), analytics and search tools (Plausible, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel), code and content (GitHub, YouTube) and AI providers (Claude, OpenAI). Pricing is a paid subscription with no free tier: $9 per month, or $49 per year billed once at $108, working out at $4.08 a month and a saving of 55%. Every plan includes every connector, as many widgets as fit in the notch and in list view, custom metrics via MCP, every Mac you sign in to with your layout synced, and signed notarised updates while you subscribe. There is a seven-day free trial with no card on file. When the trial ends your widgets stop updating but nothing is deleted; cancelling keeps access until the end of the paid period, and a failed payment gets a grace period while the card is retried. Checkout and subscriptions are handled by Dodo Payments, so the company never sees your card number. Requirements are Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later, with the current build listed as v0.4.2. The takeaway is simple. Notch Metrics does not try to be another analytics suite; it takes the numbers you already check obsessively and moves them into the MacBook notch, where a glance is enough. Sixteen live sources, encrypted server-side keys, four tile sizes, a recent-payments feed and custom metrics over MCP all serve one idea: never miss a number, and never open a dashboard to find it.