Why my Mac cleaner collects ZERO data (and why VCs would hate my business model). 🛑📊

Hey Product Hunt family! 👋

If you look at the top utility apps in the Mac ecosystem today, you'll notice a scary trend: they all want your data.

To clean your Mac, an app inherently needs deep disk access. It scans your caches, your logs, your old downloads. But why do these massive corporate apps need to send "anonymous usage telemetry" back to their servers? Why do they need to know what you are cleaning?

When I built OptiClear, I decided to do the exact opposite.

I put a strict "No Telemetry" rule in place. The app is fully sandboxed. It does its job locally, cleans the junk, and stays completely quiet.

No background tracking, no data harvesting, no "phoning home."

If I pitched this to a VC, they would probably hate it. Investors love "data moats" and tracking user behavior to upsell.

But as a solo indie maker, my only moat is User Trust.

I realized that people don't want a "smart, data-driven relationship" with their utility apps. They just want their gigabytes back without feeling like someone is looking over their shoulder.

For the makers and users here: Do you actually check the privacy labels before installing a utility app? And as founders, is it really necessary to collect telemetry for a tool that just does local processing?

Let’s debate! 👇