Pingly

Pingly is a tiny Windows app for people who code with AI. Start a task in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, or Antigravity, then switch to whatever else you’re doing. Pingly sits quietly in your system tray and notifies you the moment your AI finishes or needs your input. Click the notification to jump straight back to your session. No more checking the terminal every 30 seconds or forgetting your agent was waiting. No accounts, no telemetry—just install it and let Pingly watch your AI for you.

I built Pingly because I noticed something stupid happening every time I used AI to code. I’d give Claude Code or Codex a task that would take a few minutes. Obviously, I didn’t want to sit there staring at the terminal, so I’d switch to something else. But then one of two things happened. I’d keep coming back every 30 seconds to check: *“Is it done yet?”* Or I’d actually get focused on something else, come back 15 minutes later, and realize the AI had been waiting for one tiny input from me the whole time. It felt ridiculous. We have these agents specifically so they can work while we do other things, yet I was basically babysitting them. That’s when the idea clicked: **Why can’t my PC just ping me when the AI needs me?** Not another dashboard. Not another AI wrapper. Not something I have to keep open. Just: Give AI a task → leave → get notified → jump back. So I built Pingly. It sits quietly in the Windows system tray and watches the coding agent for you. When the response is finished or the agent needs your input, you get a notification. Click it and you’re back in the session. Initially, I built it because *I* wanted it. But once I started using it, the biggest difference wasn’t saving a few minutes. It was that I stopped thinking about the agent while it was working. I could switch away without that little thought in the back of my head saying, *“Maybe I should check Claude.”* That was enough for me to ship it. It’s a small problem and a small tool. But it was annoying me every single day. So I fixed it.