DiskPress
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Save space without deleting files. DiskPress combines native file compression and APFS file deduplication on your Mac, with background monitoring and a CLI.
PH · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: disk space cleanup utilities · 196 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial While the UI and CLI wrappers are easy to vibe code, low-level integration with macOS APFS clonefile APIs and file system compression requires system programming in Swift/Objective-C.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a Swift/Objective-C macOS native daemon communicating via XPC to a CLI or menu bar app. It must directly interface with low-level Darwin filesystem APIs like `clonefile(2)` for copy-on-write deduplication and `copyfile(3)` or HFS+ compression flags, paired with an FSEvents listener for background monitoring and robust error handling to prevent file corruption.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 589 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #490 of 590 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- twinfold · github · 2026-10-23 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- DiskCode · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Underpressured · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DiskClue · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- psp-iso-compressor · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- alzip-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DiskFox · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Ilovefiles · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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