DevShelf
Every project. Every file. One place.
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Details
- External ID
- 1268242
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- DevShelf
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
DevShelf is a free open-source macOS project organizer. Keep every project's files in one shelf—code, design, docs, media—without losing them in Downloads. Built-in MCP so Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or Codex can create projects, sort files, and check Git when you ask. Universal app for macOS 13+. MIT.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop disk and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- project and file organizer for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a local macOS utility built in Swift or Electron that acts as a file organizer and exposes a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server over standard JSON-RPC.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 101 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #62 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Grsh · hn · 2026-01-14 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- devspeedtools · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- DeveloperTools · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Dynopay · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- depflush · github · 2026-09-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.38