... rates, or fighting for early feedback. What you rarely prepare for is a scammer cloning your entire landing page, embedding malware, and trying to hijack your search traffic before you even reach scale. Here is the story of how DevCleaner went from a tool built out of personal frustration on macOS to a paid utility with global customers - and the weird lessons learned along the way. The Problem: The Invisible Disk Eater If you write code on macOS, you know ... ... risk-heavy rm -rf commands or paying monthly subscriptions for bloated system cleaners that try to do twenty things at once. I wanted a lightweight, ultra-fast, native macOS app focused strictly on developer storage cleanup. So I built DevCleaner

... Your Mac was full of Xcode caches while Cursor was still running and holding half of them hostage. DevCleaner 1.10.1 doesn t fight the open app. It cleans around it. We ve been living in the menu bar for months. This release makes that feel like the product - not a shortcut to a bigger window. What s new in 1.10.1 Clean around running apps If Cursor / Xcode / Android Studio is open, we skip that whole category and keep cleaning everything ... ... runtimes, pnpm / Yarn Berry prune, and keep last N simulators. Also: trial ending reminders, Pro dashboard billing / wipe synced data, and a bunch of polish from real use. If you ve been on 1.9 - update. If you re new: DevCleaner

... DevCleaner is a macOS menu bar app that finds and clears the gigabytes your dev tools quietly hoard - build caches, logs, temp files, old SDKs. Version 1.8.0 is our biggest scanner expansion yet, built around how developers actually work in 2026. AI coding tools, covered. New scanners for Claude Code (telemetry, backups, memory logs), Cursor CLI (browser logs, AI tracking, project metadata, saved plans), Codex CLI, and Cline - the tools flooding your home folder with data you never asked ... ... keep. Deeper IDE cleanup. JetBrains IDEs now cover Application Support caches, logs, and search indexes. Android Studio adds SDK download staging and emulator/system-image cleanup. Plus a new Developer Logs scanner spanning Simulator, Xcode, Docker, Homebrew, VS

... actually look at my own storage numbers instead of just building the feature that clears them out. Xcode alone: 25.51 GB of derived data + simulator junk. Android Studio: 2.58 GB. Cursor: 208 MB. Over the last 30 days DevCleaner has cleared 55.59 GB across 83 cleanups on my Mac (95.35 GB all-time). It's honestly wild how much silent bloat piles up from dev tooling build caches, simulators, AI tool caches none of it visible unless you go digging ... ... using DevCleaner

... been iterating on DevCleaner - a Mac menu bar app that scans dev junk (Xcode DerivedData, simulators, node_modules graveyards, Docker/OrbStack/Colima bloat, Homebrew caches, AI tool caches, etc.) and lets you clean safely with risk labels. The last couple releases ( 1.6.1 + 1.6.2 ) are mostly about project hibernation - archiving dead side projects off your SSD instead of keeping 30 GB on disk because "setting it back up later is annoying." The problem I was solving I keep old repos around ... ... bind mounts outside the project tree aren't captured as volumes; running containers aren't stopped for you. One-click polyglot restore Light archives strip all regenerable deps (node_modules, .venv, target, .gradle, etc.) but keep lockfiles. On restore, DevCleaner

... Just shipped the biggest @DevCleaner update yet. Project Hibernation lets you archive projects you are not actively working on, off your disk into a single file, and restore them in one click whenever you need them. It handles dependency reinstall on restore, is iCloud aware, and verifies every archive before touching the original. Also added Ghost Projects (per project Xcode DerivedData breakdown) and Project Artifacts (stale node_modules and build folders ranked by age). DevCleaner

... everyone! I m a solo developer and yesterday I launched my latest tool: DevCleaner We finished at #12 Product of the Day , which is a massive win for me, and the product is still featured! What it does: If you are a developer, you probably know the pain of Xcode, Android Studio, or JetBrains eating up tens of gigabytes of your Mac's disk space with bloated caches and build artifacts. DevCleaner

... finish as the #6 Product of the Day! Your feedback and support meant the world to me. Since then, I've been heads-down building, and today I am finally back on Product Hunt with my newest project: DevCleaner . Running multiple projects locally meant my Mac's storage was constantly fighting for its life against heavy Xcode derived data, Docker layers, and heavy package caches. I got tired of general-purpose tools with subscription traps, so I built a minimalist ... ... from day one, I d love for you to be among the first to check it out. If you have a moment today, any feedback, thoughts, or support on our new launch page would be deeply appreciated: Check out DevCleaner

... what a ride! A huge thank you to everyone in the Product Hunt community who supported the launch of DevCleaner yesterday! Finishing at #12 Product of the Day in such a massive, worldwide competition is an incredible milestone for a solo indie builder. Your upvotes, amazing feedback, and insightful comments mean the world to me. It shows that cluttering our Macs with heavy IDE caches is a pain point we all share, and I m thrilled that DevCleaner

... just work, one hand, job site conditions. The solo builder fighting feature creep to protect simplicity is a real tension. How are you deciding what stays out? Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @raghav_rajput1  The educational vs diagnostic line is exactly the right place to hold firm. The moment a health AI starts feeling like a diagnosis, trust collapses fast, either from users over-relying or regulators getting involved. The consistency problem is hard though. Same biomarker, different ... ... verified AI disclosure. others will not. over time the receipts with agent transparency outperform on credibility because the alternative

... like telegram more than the whatsapp for chatting :) VS Code : i do code . Comment from mono.(@shakutovbekzat): Here s my stack for building mobile apps today: Antigravity + Codex (AI Agent): Switched to this setup recently. Previously, VS

... often just as valuable as the launch itself :) Comment from Monish Mandavra(@monish_mandavra1): Appreciate it, @dawedeveloper David! Launch day has been an amazing experience, and support from the community makes it even more special. Best of luck with DevCleaner and future updates, too! Comment from David Tereba(@dawedeveloper): @monish_mandavra1 thank you so much I love to hear your honest feedback on @DevCleaner