A mac dashboard for indie hackers who build in public

You ship in the open, so you live inside the numbers: MRR, stars, signups, followers. Orbl is a mac dashboard for indie hackers that pulls those numbers onto your wallpaper, behind your windows, where you'll actually see them. No browser tab to babysit, no dashboard to log into — your build-in-public metrics sit quietly behind your code, and you glance at them when you minimize an editor.

Your build-in-public numbers, on the wallpaper

The moment you close a window, your desktop becomes the report. With Orbl Premium and its integrations, you can pin the metrics that matter to an indie founder:

• Stripe MRR — recurring revenue and recent movement, read live from your Stripe account.
• GitHub — repo stars, plus the full contribution graph so your streak is always in view.
• Product Hunt — follower count for launch-day momentum.
• Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky — track the threads and accounts you care about while you work.
• ChartMogul, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad, Polar, Dodo, TrustMRR — if you sell through them, Orbl can show it.

Because every widget is reveal-only, always-on, or off, you decide how loud the numbers get. Keep MRR always-on if it motivates you; tuck GitHub behind the reveal shortcut (⌃⌥⌘A) if you only want it on demand.

Read live, computed locally

Indie hackers are protective of their data, and rightly so. Orbl keeps your API keys read-only in the macOS Keychain, and every call goes straight from your Mac to the provider — Stripe, GitHub, Product Hunt — with no Orbl server, no account, and no analytics in between. Your revenue never passes through us because there is no "us" in the loop. If you want the longer version, the revenue dashboard page walks through exactly how the numbers reach your screen.

A calm cockpit instead of a dozen tabs

The build-in-public trap is the tab sprawl: Stripe open here, GitHub there, Product Hunt in a third window, all begging for a refresh. Orbl collapses that into one glanceable surface.

• Use the fluid auto-grid to let widgets arrange themselves, or switch to a custom drag layout and build your own cockpit.
• Pick sizes S / M / L per widget so MRR can be large and a follower count small.
• Let the palette follow the time of day, or lock a custom background color that matches your brand.

It runs at roughly 0% CPU at rest, under 100MB of RAM, at an adaptive 8–12fps — so your launch-day machine stays free for the actual work of shipping.

Built for the way you already work

Most founders already keep the free widgets running too: a clock, deep-work and rhythm tracking, machine stats while a build runs hot. Stack the Premium revenue widgets on top and your desktop quietly answers the two questions you ask all day — is the work moving, and is the business moving?

You don't have to wire everything up at once. Add Stripe today, GitHub tomorrow, Product Hunt before your next launch. Orbl asks for permissions lazily, only when a widget needs them, so setup is incremental and you're never staring at a wall of prompts.

Start free, unlock the metrics later

The core Orbl app is free, and the integrations that matter most to indie hackers — Stripe, GitHub's contribution graph, Product Hunt, and the rest — come with Orbl Premium: a one-time license, lifetime, no subscription. Early adopters get it for $29 (first 50 licenses), then it's $49.

If you build in public, your numbers deserve a calmer home than another browser tab. Download Orbl and see the pricing — then put your MRR where you'll see it every time you close a window.