MacFullStack
Native Mac stack for PHP & CMS — no Docker Desktop required
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MacFullStack is a native macOS app for local PHP and CMS development on Apple Silicon. It runs PHP 8.0–8.5, nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Mailpit, and HTTPS via mkcert — without Docker Desktop. Optional Docker mode for full parity. Works with Laravel, WordPress, Bitrix, and any uploaded project. Free for one PHP project; Pro unlocks Project Studio, Node/Python proxies, Postgres, FTP, Deploy, and Share.
PH · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: software development environments · 117 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
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More like this: all 117 launches in software development environments →
Could you build this?
Partial A GUI desktop wrapper can be vibe-coded, but cleanly compiling, managing, and orchestrating native daemon binaries and system-level DNS/SSL on macOS without Docker is difficult.
What it would actually take: Likely built in Swift/SwiftUI or Tauri communicating with a privileged helper daemon (via ServiceManagement/SMJobBless). The hard engineering piece is maintaining pre-compiled, self-contained Apple Silicon universal binaries for multiple PHP versions, Nginx, MariaDB, and Redis, along with managing loopback networking, Unix sockets, and system CA trust stores (mkcert). This requires macOS systems programming and Unix daemon management skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 427 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #354 of 428 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
- Blaze · ph · 2026-11-13 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Konsole · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- macOSDocker · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SQLOZ · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SoftNix Server · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ContainerDesk · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PortlessBar · ph · 2026-10-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- MacWise · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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