portkill
Native macOS menu bar app that lists local listening ports, shows which project owns them, and stops them in one click.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 64 upvotes (top 13%) · 1 view
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- developer-tools
- kill-process
- localhost
- lsof
- macos
- macos-app
- +6 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar tool that runs system commands (like lsof and kill) and displays them in a GUI can be created quickly using Swift/SwiftUI or Tauri.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 712 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #131 of 713 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- portkeeper · github · 2026-10-15 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- PortMon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Termini · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- leftopen · github · 2026-09-16 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DevSweep · github · 2026-09-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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