Die With Me Turns Claude and Codex Energy Into Shared Presence
Die With Me calls its Mac client "Your Claude & Codex buddies, together" on its join page published Sept. 17, 2026. The same page describes the maker as "a little company between prompts" join page.
The premise is simple. Users can see their friends' energy across Claude Code and Codex. Mascots get sleepy when tokens run low, and the shared chatroom opens at 10% left or less.
The app is free for Mac and requires an invite to activate. Users add each other with a friend code, and the service maintains Friends and Global rankings homepage.
Rankings are ordered by scarcity. The system uses a user's lowest remaining energy across Claude Code and Codex, whether session or weekly limit, and lists people closest to running out first. That design makes the binding constraint visible at a glance, which matters for developers juggling session caps and weekly quotas in parallel.
Around that core are lighter social mechanics. Voice thoughts expire after five hours. Lounges fit four pals, and hosts choose whether visitors can steal snacks. A Codex reset watch checks every 5 minutes while the app is running, with notifications powered by Codex Resets.
The creator framed the project on Show HN as "an AIM buddy list for token usage," inspired by the old internet practice of "checking if friends are online to say hi and poke them" Show HN discussion.
The broader context here is familiar to anyone who lived through presence indicators the first time around. Rate limits and usage windows have become a day-to-day scheduling problem for heavy agent-coding users, and Die With Me treats that exhaustion state as shared presence rather than an individual error message.
In my view, that inversion is why the idea will resonate with practitioners even if the utility looks thin on paper. Watching limits together does not add tokens, but it coordinates breaks, handoffs, and model switching across a team or friend group. Scarcity becomes presence. For solo developers, it normalizes the pause that session-based coding now forces into the workday.
Looking at what this means for tool builders, the lesson is less about mascots than about surfacing limit state in social surfaces where work already happens. Long arc, that is a healthy instinct. Limits are easier to live with when they are legible, shared, and briefly sociable.
