Dechonk
Find & delete node_modules and build caches
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Details
- External ID
- 1267403
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dechonk
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- Tags
- Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
Dechonk finds every node_modules, Rust target, Go/Gradle/Maven cache, and web build folder eating your disk, then sends them to Trash in one click. Free forever for node_modules + Cargo target. Pro unlocks 21 more blackhole kinds (Next.js, pnpm store, Xcode DerivedData, and more). ~4 MB Tauri app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. No telemetry. 14-day Pro trial on first launch.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS system utilities and optimizers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- disk cleanup tool for node_modules and build caches
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight Tauri desktop app in Rust/JavaScript that traverses local directory trees to identify known cache folder patterns and moves them to trash is well within vibe-coding capabilities.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 101 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hurry · hn · 2025-12-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- cleanupper · github · 2026-09-23 · 724 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DevCleaner · ph · 2026-06-16 · 157 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- prt · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Grsh · hn · 2026-01-14 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- An incremental build cache for Rust on GHA · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- DiskMac - Reclaim disk space · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SquirrelDisk 2.0 · ph · 2026-10-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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