I made a Mac app to centralize and monitor my dev tools
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Details
- External ID
- 49945661
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a Mac app to centralize and monitor my dev tools
- Website domain
- coisland.app
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10150375939849623
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac app to monitor and centralize developer tools
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar or desktop application that aggregates local developer tool metrics can be assembled quickly using Swift/SwiftUI or Electron and standard system APIs.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Catch port conflicts, Monitor Docker containers, Monitor local servers
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 692 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #663 of 693 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- CoIsland · hn · 2026-10-05 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- I built a native macOS terminal with Git integration in 5 days · hn · 2026-07-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- the-onboarding-tool · github · 2026-09-25 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Floe · github · 2026-10-03 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard · hn · 2026-04-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DevSweep · github · 2026-09-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Janus · github · 2026-09-25 · 114 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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