DevCleaner
Free the gigabytes your dev tools and AI apps hoard
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DevCleaner lives in your Mac's menu bar and frees the gigabytes that 22 dev ecosystems quietly hoard — Xcode, Gradle, npm, plus AI apps like Cursor, Claude & Ollama. Every item is risk-rated, so you always know what's safe to delete. Free, no account, 4 MB.
PH · launched Jun 16, 2026 · 157 upvotes (top 95%) · 0 views
Niche: disk space cleanup utilities · 196 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a macOS menu bar utility (e.g. Swift or Tauri) that scans known filesystem directory paths for developer caches (like ~/.gradle, ~/Library/Caches) and calls file deletion APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 234 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #233 of 235 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 171 days after the earliest competitor.
- DevSweep · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- DiskMac - Reclaim disk space · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Storage Cleaner for Mac · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ddeploy · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Cachemelt · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Shedi · ph · 2026-10-24 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- CleanCache · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- CoreTend · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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