We connected 1,573 real Claude Code sessions and found that skills fire in only 4% of sessions, 26% get abandoned within 60 seconds, and error patterns in the first 2 minutes predict failure. So we turned it into Rudel and release it to the world. Rudel gives your dev team a dashboard for token usage, session patterns, session errors, and quality signals across every team member. Works also for Codex. It's free, open source and self-hostable.
Hola hunters! 👋
We built Rudel because we were embarrassed.
We spend $1.4k per month on Claude Code and are using it every day.
But we couldn't answer the most basic questions:
Which sessions actually moved the needle? Why did half of them just... die? Were we getting smarter with context management, or just lighting tokens on fire? What skills are missing? Are we using plan mode too much?
So we instrumented ourselves.
After like 1,573 sessions, 15M+ tokens, 270K+ interactions we found out:
- Skills triggered in only 4% of sessions even if configured. Claude (and Codex) just didn't use them...
- A quarter of sessions get abandoned , most within the first 60 seconds
- Error cascades in the first 2 minutes are the clearest predictor of abandonment
We launched on HN some weeks ago and got 144 points, 72+ comments. Turns out we were not alone, so we're launching this on Product Hunt now too!
Three commands to get started:
`npm install -g rudel` → `rudel login` → `rudel enable`
Fully open source. Self-hostable if you want to keep session data on your own infra.
We'd love your honest feedback. It is super early. Embarrasingly early
Now dig in and start rudeling.
That 26% abandoned in 60 seconds stat hit me. I've definitely rage-quit sessions when Claude starts confidently rewriting files I didn't ask it to touch. Curious about the error pattern detection though. Does it catch the classic 'Claude apologizes and then makes the exact same mistake again' loop? Because that's where most of my tokens go to die. Gonna self-host this, $1.4k/month deserves a receipt.
About Rudel on Product Hunt
“Claude Code & Codex session analytics for dev teams”
Rudel launched on Product Hunt on April 9th, 2026 and earned 87 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #39 on the daily leaderboard. We connected 1,573 real Claude Code sessions and found that skills fire in only 4% of sessions, 26% get abandoned within 60 seconds, and error patterns in the first 2 minutes predict failure. So we turned it into Rudel and release it to the world. Rudel gives your dev team a dashboard for token usage, session patterns, session errors, and quality signals across every team member. Works also for Codex. It's free, open source and self-hostable.
Rudel was featured in Open Source (68.3k followers), Developer Tools (511.1k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.4k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 183.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Rudel?
Rudel was hunted by Marc Höffl. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Want to see how Rudel stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
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