Mole
Deep clean and optimize your Mac
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HN · launched Dec 27, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 37 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes Mole is a macOS cleanup utility, essentially a wrapper around system shell commands, directory caches, and standard file removal scripts.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3685 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2815 of 3686 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 58 days after the earliest competitor.
- DeRust · github · 2026-11-04 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.85
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- spare · github · 2026-10-13 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- cleanly · github · 2026-10-29 · 311 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Zen Mode · hn · 2026-07-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- advanced-pc-optimizer · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- advanced-disk-cleaner · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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