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Captain Kill Switch

Close all your open apps in one click

Details

External ID
1229691
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Switch
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Sept. 12, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
79
Upvotes percentile
0.9788325849903784
Tags
Windows, Productivity, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
Fetched at
Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

A quiet menu-bar button that closes every running app the moment you need a clean slate. Free, private, and cross-platform for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Enrichment

Theme
digital minimalism and focus tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
close multiple applications at once
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a straightforward desktop utility (via Electron, Tauri, or Go/Rust system-tray libraries) that enumerates running processes and issues SIGTERM/WM_CLOSE followed by SIGKILL.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 207 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #13 of 208 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 238 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.