Port Tools
Know which project owns every localhost port
Details
- External ID
- 1246288
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Port Tools
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Developer Tools, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
Description
Port Tools is a native macOS menu bar app for developers who lose track of localhost services across repos and worktrees. Instead of showing only a port and PID, it maps each listener to its project, branch, app, and service type, and gives web apps stable *.localhost names. Before stopping an eligible service, it rechecks the process identity and refuses when the evidence is weak. It runs locally and is open source.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- identify which project owns a localhost port
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a native macOS menu bar tool that polls system utilities like `lsof` and `ps`, parses local `.git` metadata, and runs a basic reverse proxy.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 142 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 143 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- PortMon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Portero · ph · 2026-07-14 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Doorman · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- leftopen · github · 2026-09-16 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Port Zero · hn · 2026-07-27 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- RouteLocal · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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