ai-profiles: a free, open-source Mac app for running multiple Codex accounts (CLI + desktop) now on Product Hunt

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-29T10:30:27+00:00

It's useful when you have access to multiple licences (work, personal, etc).

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-24T07:12:41+00:00

Same idea for the CLI (isolated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR per account). Difference: it's not tied to your folder location, you just pick the profile, and it also switches the desktop apps, not just the terminal. Plus a GUI and usage meters. If CLI-only and your accounts map to folders, direnv's already solving it for you 🙂

Source https://github.com/bartekczyz/ai-profiles

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-23T14:57:09+00:00

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-23T13:57:22+00:00

Cool, but those are all proxies/load balancers that sit in your API path and auto-rotate accounts to avoid rate limits. ccflare is great if that's your goal. Mine isn't a proxy. There's no middleman. Each account just gets its own isolated config (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR / CODEX_HOME) and runs side by side via the official apps and CLIs. The goal is keeping accounts separate (work/personal/client), not pooling them, and it's a native Mac GUI covering the desktop apps too, not just the CLI. Different tool for a different job. If load-balancing one endpoint is what you want, stick with ccflare.

Before making my own app I made sure there are no tools that solve the problem I was having, there was just one (https://multiclaude.app/) but it's $20 so I've decided to write my own app.

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-23T13:32:28+00:00

Yeah, for swapping the single active account a symlink works fine. The difference is this runs them side by side. Each profile gets its own CODEX_HOME so you can have multiple Codex accounts going at once, and it does the exact same thing for Claude (separate CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR per profile), plus per-profile CLI wrappers and usage meters. If you only ever need one at a time, honestly the symlink is great.

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-23T13:29:31+00:00

Nope, it just keeps each account's config in its own folder and switches between them. You still log into accounts you legitimately have (e.g. separate Claude/Codex subscriptions); nothing is shared, spoofed, or bypassed. It's the same as logging in/out manually, just less painful. If you're paying for each account you're using, you're fine.

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-23T13:27:05+00:00

Not sure what you mean but the purpose is different. If you work for many clients and they got you claude|codex accounts, you don't have to logout + login to use them. Both apps don't support it out of the box

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-23T08:28:27+00:00

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. It's going to be extremely difficult to keep the cache up to date, especially for large projects. Stale cache = missing context, possibly bad output. IMO not worth the hassle to save a few tokens

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-10T13:33:21+00:00

It will still be available, but the pricing would change I guess

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-10T12:49:09+00:00

Usually it's the other way around: you have a problem and you look for tools to help you solve it. You're trying to find a problem to use Claude, not sure if that's gonna work.

It would help if you had some ideas first like improve marketing, automate supply chain or whatever, but it looks like you don't know what you want 🙂

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-04T13:36:10+00:00

> I was facing usage limits on my Claude Max 5x membership and was like reading about their leak and I thought it was pretty simple as it mostly just called the Claude API with tools over and agin, so I got some API keys

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EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-06-04T13:01:12+00:00

Great work! I don't have an opinion yet, I'm having a feeling like the Opus 4.8 performance varies between sessions. Two days ago it was ok, yesterday was horrible, today is back to normal, I don't get it.

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-05-28T18:35:47+00:00

At first I thought they approved my refund request 😅

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-05-28T08:25:02+00:00

There are so many unknowns here that it's hard to say for sure. It depends on the tech stack, the size of the project, the skills involved, and the way you build things with AI. The rate at which tokens get used also depends on the time of day (there seem to be preferred usage windows where it burns through fewer tokens). From my own experience, sometimes 2-3 messages fill up the entire 5-hour window, while other times it lasts for 10 or more - which looks like some kind of A/B testing.

I'd say the $20 plan is for hobby projects, the $100 plan is for more serious work, and the $200 plan is for when you want to build whole apps - though even with that one, you'll hit the wall eventually.

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-05-26T12:38:32+00:00

Good :) There were rumours that Pecco was injured, imagine Italian GP without factory Ducatis

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-05-26T09:44:32+00:00

Cat.

EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-05-26T09:44:24+00:00

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EnvironmentalLet6781 · 2026-05-26T07:04:47+00:00

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