The Issue

A couple of weeks ago we launched CHaaS to answer one question: does anything need me right now? There’s a second question hiding right behind it, and it’s the one that bites at 4:45 on a Thursday: how much runway do I have left?

Our Take

You’re three sessions deep, the refactor is finally landing, and you have no idea whether you’re at 40% of your weekly limit or about to hit the wall. So you stop, open a terminal, and check usage. Then you do some back-of-napkin math about whether today’s plan fits in tomorrow’s budget, and try to remember what you were doing. It isn’t hard. It’s just one more thing your attention has to poll, and we’ve already established (at length) that your attention is the bottleneck.

At 315Concepts we think this kind of usage should be ambient, and natural. Think of a fuel gauge; you don’t open a menu to check it. It’s there, in the corner of your eye, just doing its thing.

What is Clawdmeter?

Clawdmeter started as an open-source project by Hermann Björgvin. It puts your Claude Code usage limits, both current session and weekly, on a small display on your desk. With hooks turned on, it also reacts to what your sessions are doing and flags the one that’s waiting on you. The project has been featured on TechCrunch, picked up thousands of stars, and grown an impressive list of community board ports.

We kept seeing it on other people’s desks, and we kept noticing the same gaps. To even get one, you had to source the right board from overseas suppliers, find a USB data cable, flash the firmware, and then live with a cable running across your desk - forever. Plenty of developers would love one but aren’t interested in jumping through any hoops just to get the hardware, programmed correctly, and sitting on their desk.

So today, in addition to an internal Open Source campaign targeting further support for the project - we’re also launching the original Clawdmeter as a finished retail device, batteries literally included.

How It Works

This is refreshingly the opposite of how CHaaS approaches the problem space, and we mean that as a compliment to both. There’s no cloud, no edge service, and no digital twin. A desktop app runs on your machine (Linux, macOS, or Windows), reads your Claude Code usage, and pushes it to the display over Bluetooth LE. The device pairs as a Bluetooth keyboard, so its physical buttons send real key presses back to your computer. Turn on the optional Claude Code hooks from inside the app, and the display starts reacting to session activity too.

That’s… the whole architecture. It’s boring where it needs to be reliable, and it all lives on your desk.

Why We’re Carrying It

CHaaS is our answer to state: when sessions are working, waiting, or done, across every machine and every room. Clawdmeter is an answer to budget. The two overlap a little, since both will tell you when a session wants you. But they’re built for different jobs, and honestly… they look great next to each other.

It also fits the way we like to work. From day one, we’ve said we sell up a ladder: raw parts, dev kits, product kits, and finished retail devices. We’ve also said we’d ship open source along the way, and taking a great community along for the ride is exactly the kind of thing we want to do more of. We’ll have some more to talk about soon, but suffice to say we’re excited for what’s next - not just because we’ve got one more product out the door.

Meet Clawdmeter

The retail Clawdmeter is built on the project’s flagship board, a 2.16” 480×480 AMOLED with three buttons, a speaker, and a built-in rechargeable battery. Like every 315Concepts Retail device, it’s assembled and tested in-house by our dedicated team of engineers, ships with the latest firmware already installed, and carries a 12-month parts and labor warranty. It arrives charged, and there’s nothing left to flash or wire up. Install the app, pair it over Bluetooth, and put it wherever you like on the desk, since there’s no cable to run.

Honest Limitations

Here’s what to know before you buy:

• It needs a Bluetooth connection. The device gets data from your computer’s Bluetooth, and the app has to be running on a machine within range.
• The battery is a battery. You’ll get hours (not days) of use per charge, then it’s back to USB-C for a top-up.
• It’s built for Claude Code. That’s… the point.
• It’s not affiliated with Anthropic. The Clawdmeter ecosystem is an independent community project, and 315Concepts is not in any way affiliated with Anthropic or with the original Clawdmeter project.

Get One / What’s Next

Clawdmeter is live today:

1. Pick one up from the 315Concepts webstore.
2. Make sure Claude Code is installed, get the Clawdmeter app, and pair over Bluetooth.
3. Turn on hooks if you want session alerts, and then… stop doing mental usage math.

If you’d rather put your own together, the project’s board list is excellent and we carry the same flagship board as a raw part. It costs more than ordering direct from Waveshare, but we ship from US stock, so you don’t wait for overseas shipping. And whether you buy one from us or build it yourself, go star the repo. Hermann earned it.