petal
A fast, exact disk-space explorer for macOS with a live sunburst chart. Rust + GPUI.
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Details
- External ID
- 1400429142
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- petal
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 62
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7281368821292775
- Tags
- apfs, disk-space, disk-usage, gpui, macos, rust, storage, sunburst
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- low-level systems and virtualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- disk space analyzer for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a high-performance, exact disk-space explorer in Rust using GPUI requires deep systems programming, concurrent filesystem traversal optimization, and low-level GPU-accelerated UI rendering that AI coding tools cannot reliably architect from scratch.
What it would actually take: A real version requires a multithreaded systems architecture in Rust (leveraging APFS/macOS low-level file APIs like `getattrlistbulk` for fast metadata retrieval) coupled with Zed's GPUI framework for custom vector/shader rendering of live sunburst charts. Managing memory, cross-thread message passing, lock contention during massive directory walks, and custom canvas-level rendering in GPUI demands specialized native systems engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1172 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #366 of 1173 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- DiskTriage · hn · 2026-09-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Mole · hn · 2025-12-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- disktree · github · 2026-09-24 · 1784 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ember · github · 2026-09-13 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Zen Mode · hn · 2026-07-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ZeroFS · hn · 2026-07-02 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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- No other launches for this product.
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