A macOS menu-bar app that counts your keystrokes and names your milestones after Shakespeare's plays — built with Claude Code out of pure curiosity.
Andrea Saez built Shakespeare, an open-source key-tap counter for macOS, and her own summary of the motivation is hard to beat: "I built it with Claude Code for no reason beyond curiosity." The repo (andreasaez/shakespeare, MIT) was created on October 9 and pushed again on October 10 — the commit history even lists "Shakespeare and claude" as co-authors, a nice artifact of the workflow. It is written in Swift and builds with the Xcode command line tools, no full Xcode needed.
What it does: it lives in your menu bar and counts key presses — never what you type, never touching the network. You get today plus the last 14 days, a streak counter for days with 50+ keys, honest sustained WPM over a full minute, fun facts like your busiest hour and how many Hamlets you've typed, and optional per-app stats that are off by default. The signature feature is share cards: nine keyboard colorways (Quarto, Elsinore, Falstaff, Juliet…) drawn as a real 75% board with soft bloom, rendered locally on your Mac for posting wherever you like.
Verdict: a deliberately useless app executed with unusual craft — the privacy story (input monitoring permission, per-day counters in owner-only files, CI-enforced privacy audit) is more serious than the premise suggests. A good reference for anyone building a menu-bar utility with SwiftUI and Claude Code.