Bytesweep
A graphical GUI that knows what not to delete
Details
- External ID
- 1246813
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Bytesweep
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Bytesweep finds what filled your Mac — Docker, Xcode, Ollama and LM Studio models — and names what you are about to delete before it goes: SSH keys, unpushed git history, VM disks, photo libraries, open databases. Every sweep is undoable for 7 days. macOS and Linux, $15 once, no subscription.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- smart file deletion tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the visual treemap UI is straightforward, fast native disk traversal, safe OS-level heuristics for developer caches, and snapshot/restore safety require low-level systems programming.
What it would actually take: A production version would be written in Rust, Swift, or Go (using Tauri or native Swift UI) to perform multithreaded directory walks with minimal memory overhead. The hard part is building and continuously maintaining an accurate, robust rule engine that knows macOS and Linux subsystem layouts (Docker volumes, Xcode caches, git uncommitted state, open SQLite lockfiles) to avoid catastrophic data loss. Implementing isolated staging/restore points requires OS-level file operations (hard links or APFS copy-on-write clones) that respect file permissions and sandbox constraints.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 173 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #110 of 174 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
- cleanupper · github · 2026-09-23 · 724 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Downsweep · ph · 2026-09-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ddeploy · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MacDissect · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- diskwise · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacPrune · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DiskMac - Reclaim disk space · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Binzide · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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- No other launches for this product.
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