Backspace
Find what Docker, Xcode and your builds did to your disk
Details
- External ID
- 1258100
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Backspace
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Backspace finds the disk space developer tools leave behind: Docker volumes, simulator runtimes, build caches, VM images. It ties each item to its project and says what removing it would actually free. The scan is free; one single payment unlocks removal.
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 cleanup tool for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a desktop utility (likely built in Swift, Electron, or Tauri) that scans specific well-known filesystem directories (e.g. ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData, Docker CLI prune targets) and executes cleanup scripts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #58 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 291 days after the earliest competitor.
- DiskMac - Reclaim disk space · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- SpaceFree · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Clearspace · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MacDissect · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Dockside · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- SpaceUp Mac: Storage Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- SpaceSharp · github · 2026-09-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- XcodeReclaim · github · 2026-09-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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