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.
- Initials · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- justhide · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- RebootTo · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MenuBarHider · github · 2026-09-18 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- TapTick · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app · hn · 2026-08-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Orbit · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.