... Product Hunt, RoomService 2.5.0 is out. This release adds Keyboard Locker to the menu bar and makes Developer / Full scans much faster. Keyboard Locker temporarily blocks keyboard input until you unlock it from a full-screen overlay. Small feature, but useful when cleaning the keyboard or avoiding accidental input. The bigger update is scan speed .

... Product Hunt, RoomService 2.2.0 is now available. This update focuses on a problem that is easy to miss during development: secrets accidentally left inside project files. API keys , tokens , private credentials , and temporary test values often start as just for local development and then quietly stay in config or source files longer than they should. Project Health can now detect likely hardcoded secrets inside small Git-tracked source and config files, then surface those warnings in both Projects ...

... Product Hunt, RoomService 2.0 is now available. This is the biggest update so far: a full UI/UX refresh across the Mac app, with cleaner workspaces, tighter navigation, calmer surfaces, and better responsiveness across busy screens.

... graveyard of: .env files API keys App Store keys Firebase configs random tokens copied into notes credentials I forgot existed The problem isn't generating API keys anymore. It's remembering where they all ended up. While building RoomService, I realized many developers have the same issue. Especially now that AI tools can generate entire projects in minutes. So in

... Product Hunt, We just shipped RoomService 1.3.0 with two new workspaces: Health Check and Space Map. Health Check gives you one place to review the state of your Mac and

... When I first added Dev Ports to RoomService, it felt like a small utility feature. See local servers. See active ports. Open them faster. Kill them faster. Then Build Watchers happened. Suddenly

... Product Hunt, I just shipped Privacy Watch in RoomService 1.4.0. The problem I wanted to solve is simple: sometimes your camera or microphone becomes active in the background, and it is not always obvious which app caused it or whether you missed the moment it started. Privacy Watch makes that signal harder to miss. It shows realtime camera and microphone activity across the menu bar, title bar, Health Check, Settings > Privacy, notifications, and Ops Feed. When available ... ... want it after the first notification Comment from Ellie Russell(@ellie_russell): @ardacankrko How accurate has app detection been in real use? Comment from Arda Can K rko (@ardacankrko): @ellie_russell  Good question. The activity signal itself is reliable:

... machines, freshness matters as much as detection. It is not enough to surface a problem once. The product also needs to understand when that problem has changed, disappeared, or been resolved. That is something we have been improving in RoomService. Smart Advisor, Projects, Dev Ports, Build Watchers, and the menu bar all need to agree on the current state of the machine. If a project health issue is resolved, the suggestion should not keep routing you back ...

... expected? Is this process still useful? For developers, high CPU usage is rarely just a process. It is usually connected to a project, local server, build tool, or workflow that was left behind. That idea became Build Watchers in RoomService. The goal is to make runaway watcher and build processes easier to notice, understand, and deal with before they quietly drain battery, heat up the machine, or make the entire system feel slower. Not just: CPU is high. More ...

... reason about. When a repo grows to 10 GB, 30 GB, or more, the first question should not be: What can I delete? It should be: What is this project actually made of? That idea became Projects in RoomService. Projects gives local development folders their own workspace. It scans repositories and breaks them down into meaningful groups like Git data, dependencies, build outputs, caches, assets, logs, and source files, so developers can understand project structure before making cleanup decisions ...

... building a macOS app, this is one of those decisions that sounds simple but isn t. When I started building RoomService , I assumed I d ship it on the Mac App Store . That s the default path. But pretty quickly, it became clear it wouldn t work. Not because of distribution, but because of what the product actually needs to do.

... RoomService 0.9.0 moves the product further in a direction I care a lot about: helping developers understand and manage what is happening on their machines. The biggest addition is Build Watcher monitoring. Project-backed watch and build tools can now surface in

... When I started RoomService, I thought I was building a Mac cleaner for developers. That sounds simple. Scan files Show what s big Let people delete things But after working on it for a while, I realized I was solving the wrong problem. Developers don t really struggle with cleaning. They struggle with understanding what s happening on their machines. A few things became very clear over time: 1. Cleaning is not the problem, visibility is. Most issues come ...

... just shipped Recipes in RoomService. A new way to turn repeatable cleanup into reusable workflows on macOS. Recipes lets you turn common cleanup jobs into built-in or custom routines, instead of rebuilding the same flow every time. You can add schedules, approvals, and sharing, so routines are easier to reuse across your own setup or with other people. The goal was to make recurring cleanup feel more structured and less manual, especially on developer-heavy Macs where ... ... same categories tend to grow again and again. This release also adds clearer anonymous analytics controls in onboarding and Settings.

... just shipped Dev Ports in RoomService. A new way to see and manage active local development servers across your Mac. Dev Ports brings local server visibility into the parts of the app where it is most useful: Home, the menu bar, smart notifications, Ops Feed, and the command panel. The goal was simple: make active local servers easier to notice and easier to act on, without constantly switching between terminal tabs, browser tabs, Activity Monitor, and Finder. When

... little while ago I shared Dev Ports in RoomService as a way to see and manage active local development servers across a Mac. Since then, I have made it much more useful. Dev Ports now does a much better job of telling you not just that a local server is running, but whether it is actually shareable on your network and what you can do with it. The biggest additions in this update: Copy LAN URL for shareable local ... ... servers QR codes so a nearby phone can open the local server without typing the address manually Clearer LAN

... again and suddenly port 3000 is already in use so you open terminal run lsof grep awk kill and repeat this loop more times than you d like to admit I got tired of this and built something into RoomService that shows all active local servers in real time and lets you kill them instantly curious how others deal with this terminal tabs? browser tabs? menu bar tools? Comment from Orhan Kilic(@orhan_kilic): @ardacankrko  Mission accomplished then ...

... just shipped a new Command Palette in RoomService. Instead of navigating through menus, you can now search across cleanup categories, tools, and actual cleanup items, all in one place. You can also trigger actions like scans directly from the palette. The goal was simple: make cleanup feel faster, more direct, and closer to a keyboard-first workflow. Comment from Henry Lindsey(@henry_lindsey): using the key board to jump between tools is a great for me, and I appreciate ...

... just shipped Projects in RoomService. A new way to inspect your local development folders and understand what s actually taking up space. Projects analyzes each repo and groups its contents into things like assets, generated data, git storage, and logs. So instead of just seeing folders, you can understand what each part represents and why the project is large. It also surfaces things you don t normally see while working, like build outputs, caches, and repository internals. Works across ...

... Been iterating on RoomService quite a bit recently and wanted to share a quick update. As more people started using it on heavier dev setups, a few patterns became really clear: Docker cleanup needed to be more structured Browser caches were taking more space than expected Reviewing what s safe to delete still needed better control So the recent updates focused mostly on that. Added a dedicated browser cleanup category (Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc.) with clearer separation between cache ...

... After launching RoomService, one thing became very clear: This isn t just a developer problem anymore. AI tools, local models, game dev workflows, code editors they re all silently filling up disk space in ways people don t fully understand. So instead of just improving cleanup, I started focusing on visibility first. Here s what I ve been shipping recently: Added an AI Storage category (shoutout to Takahito Yoneda for the idea ) (this one was long overdue tbh) Detects ... ... caches from tools like Ollama, Hugging Face, Whisper, PyTorch Support for custom AI storage paths so non-standard setups don t get missed 30 40% faster scans especially noticeable on heavier setups A dedicated Code Editors category

... knew there was a gap here when I started building RoomService, but I honestly didn t expect this much interest. What surprised me is that it s not just a developer problem anymore. With all the AI tools, game dev workflows, and this whole vibe coding shift, a lot more people are running into the same thing: their Mac fills up, but they don t really know why. That s what I m trying to solve. Really appreciate ...