Mole
Deep clean and optimize your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 46401090
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mole
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 27, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2652671755725191
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac optimization and cleanup tool
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1419 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1094 of 1420 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- Zen Mode · hn · 2026-07-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Calyx · hn · 2026-03-12 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Jarvey · hn · 2026-03-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Safari MCP · hn · 2026-04-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- ember · github · 2026-09-13 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.62
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.