DiskScope: disk space analyzer
Fast Windows disk analyzer with treemaps & cleanup
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DiskScope is a fast, 100% local Windows disk analyzer. Visualize storage with treemaps, sunbursts and flame graphs, find large files and duplicates, and clean up safely. No cloud, no telemetry — your data never leaves your PC. One-time purchase from $5.
PH · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: disk space cleanup utilities · 196 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
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Could you build this?
Partial While disk visualization UI can be built quickly, writing an ultra-fast, concurrent native drive scanner with memory efficiency across millions of files on Windows requires low-level systems programming.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a Go, C++, or Rust backend using Windows native APIs (like FindFirstFileExW or directly parsing the NTFS USN Journal / MFT) for sub-second drive walking. It streams data over IPC (WebSocket or stdin/stdout) to an Electron/Tauri or lightweight desktop UI using D3/Canvas for large-tree visualizations. A vibe coder would struggle with memory allocation limits, OS privilege management, locked system files, and NTFS-level optimization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 298 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #234 of 299 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 218 days after the earliest competitor.
- SpaceScope · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- SpaceSharp · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- DiskInsight · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ScanMyDisk · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Broom · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Easy Disk · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hunter Disk Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- CheckMyDisk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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