AgentMinder — idle-time reclaimer for AI agents

Pulls you back into work at the right moment when your AI coding agents are running long tasks.

Problem

Solo devs who hand most work to AI often reach for their phone during multi-minute waits and lose half an hour to short-video feeds; by the time they look up, the agent finished long ago. Running several coding agents in parallel also means missing the one that silently needs input.

Solution

A lightweight menu-bar/desktop app that watches local coding agent processes and terminal sessions, detects completion, errors, and input prompts, and nudges you via notification, sound, or gentle overlay. It also offers a focus rule for when you may leave, plus a daily report of AI wait time versus real work time.

Users

Solo devs, indie hackers, remote workers, and contractors who rely on AI coding agents daily

MVP

Detect common local coding-agent processes and terminal output; recognize done/error/waiting-for-input events; send system notifications with optional sound; away-mode and false-positive tolerance settings; a daily wait-vs-work summary.

Revenue

One-time purchase at $9.9–19.9, or a $2–3/month subscription; later a team tier for multi-machine sync.

Why now

Coding agents are now mainstream for individual developers, making fragmented waiting time a widespread pain; existing tools focus on agent orchestration, not on the human waiting loop.