StorageDaddy
See what is eating your developer Mac before deleting it.
Details
- External ID
- 1258494
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- StorageDaddy
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
StorageDaddy is a free, open-source native Mac storage analyzer for developers. It maps folders, build outputs, dependency stores, caches and recognized Claude/Codex session archives, then keeps cleanup candidates reviewable before anything moves to Trash. Scanning stays local and the native app has no telemetry.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- disk space visualizer for mac developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and basic directory traversal can be vibe-coded, but building a performant, native macOS app that scans massive file trees safely and parses specialized dev cache structures requires native platform engineering.
What it would actually take: The app is written natively in Swift/SwiftUI leveraging low-level macOS POSIX/APFS file system metadata APIs for high-speed disk scanning without excessive memory overhead. The complex parts involve safe Apple sandbox/permissions handling, deep system cache knowledge (Xcode DerivedData, Docker volumes, package managers, and localized LLM context stores), and secure trash management.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 147 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 148 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
- DiskWright · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- CheckMyDisk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- ddeploy · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- SpareDisk · ph · 2026-09-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SpaceUp Mac: Storage Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DiskCompanion · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- CleanOrbit · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- MacDissect · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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