I built a native macOS menu bar app to watch GitHub Actions and Vercel deploys

[yedmrblt]

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I kept opening GitHub Actions tabs to check if my workflows passed. So I built Deplog to do it for me.
It's a native SwiftUI app that sits in your macOS menu bar. It watches your GitHub workflow runs and Vercel deployments and shows the status at a glance. Green when things pass, red when something breaks, without opening a browser.
What it does:

• Tracks GitHub Actions workflow runs across your repos
• Tracks Vercel deployments in the same view
• Push notifications when a run fails, so you catch it before anyone pings you
• Fully native and lightweight. No Electron, no web wrapper.

I've been building it solo since February 2025.

Deplog is on the Mac App Store for $4.99: https://trydeplog.com/

Happy to talk about how it's built. It's native SwiftUI hitting the GitHub and Vercel APIs on a polling schedule.

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[DevZ44d]

Really nice idea. The menu bar is exactly where deployment status belongs, and I like that you kept it fully native instead of wrapping a web app.

I'm curious about the polling strategy. How are you handling GitHub and Vercel API rate limits when monitoring multiple repositories and deployments? Do you dynamically adjust the polling interval based on activity, or is it a fixed schedule?

Also, have you considered supporting additional providers such as Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or GitHub Checks in the future?

Congrats on shipping and launching a polished macOS app.