Latent
See which dev tool ate your disk, and undo every cleanup
Details
- External ID
- 1239781
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Latent
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Latent attributes every gigabyte on a developer's Mac to the tool that owns it — model weights, package caches, simulator runtimes, build artifacts — proves what can be re-downloaded from a public registry, and removes only that. Every removal is recorded first and can be undone from the Recovery tab. Nothing runs at startup, on a schedule, or in the background. No scan alerts, no error counts, no performance claims. Free to scan; a licence covers 3 Macs — $9.99 for a limited time, then $12.99.
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?
Partial A basic macOS utility that scans common cache directories is vibe-codeable, but accurately verifying package provenance against public registries and implementing safe rollback requires deep native macOS and filesystem expertise.
What it would actually take: Needs a native Swift/Objective-C app interfacing with macOS file APIs, parsing manifest files for multiple package managers (Docker, Homebrew, CocoaPods, npm, HuggingFace), and querying upstream registry APIs to verify artifact availability. The primary challenge is reliable copy-on-write snapshotting (e.g., APFS clone/snapshots) to guarantee frictionless undos without doubling disk usage or corrupting live developer environments.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacDissect · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MacPrune · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DiskMac - Reclaim disk space · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ddeploy · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DevCleaner · ph · 2026-06-16 · 157 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Binzide · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Bytesweep · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- XcodeReclaim · github · 2026-09-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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