Sweatpea

Quiet signal

Your Mac has a temperature. And a suspect.

Launched 1d ago

Signal

Velocity

What this means

+52%Launching in a 52% WoW growing category.

Mac had 96 launches this week vs 63 last.

18Founder Conviction Index: 18 — low signal.

Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.

6.4×Founder historically performs 6.4× the median launch we track.

Best prior launch: Knucklebop, attention 100.

Prediction

Top-5 finish probability

today

Projected end-of-day votes

3range 2–4

Trajectory

stable

Vote pace holding steady.

About

Sweatpea is a little green pea that lives in your Mac's menu bar and reacts to how hard your Mac is working. Chill, warm, sweating, meltdown. Click it and it names the app responsible, explains macOS processes in plain English, and offers a polite Quit. It also tracks memory and storage, and asks you to take a two-minute break every hour. About 1% of one core. No account, no analytics. Free, with Pro at $9.99 once.

AI Summary

Sweatpea is a menu bar app for Mac that monitors system temperature and identifies resource-intensive applications. It tracks memory and storage usage, encourages regular breaks, and offers a Pro version for $9.99.

Attention & discussion velocity

Performance

Velocity0

Vote pace vs average

Momentum0

Sustained over 6h

Virality0

Spread × engagement

Engagement—

not measured

Editorial read

Scored deterministically. Only candidates that fire a story trigger are sent to a model, so this one has no written angle.

ThinLittle evidence and no strong angle. Nothing to build on yet.

146/8

Timeliness5%95

carried 6%

Novelty15%74

carried 18%

Trend20%40

carried 24%

Founder10%32

carried 12%

Business15%5

carried 18%

Story20%0

carried 24%

Not measured · 2 of 8

Revenue10%—

Cross-platform5%—

Gaps in our data, not findings about the product. Their weight is redistributed across the 6 we did measure.

measuredmeasured, zeronot measured

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Signal sources

3 of 6 active

Launch tracking6 readings since we picked it up
AI analysisProductivity
Comment intelligencethread not yet analysed
Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
Revenue signalsno match on this domain
Editorial scoring12% evidence coverage

A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.