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Dev Ports: seeing and managing local dev servers across your Mac

We just shipped Dev Ports in Room Service.

A new way to see and manage active local development servers across your Mac.

The Problem With Background Build Processes 🐢

A developer Mac can feel slow for a lot of reasons.

Sometimes the reason is obvious.

Simulators, Dev Ports, Build Watchers. Room Service is evolving

When I first added Dev Ports to Room Service, it felt like a small utility feature.

A new way to turn repeatable cleanup into reusable workflows on macOS

We just shipped Recipes in Room Service.

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.

Room Service - The Mac cleaner built for developers

Room Service helps developers understand what is actually filling their Mac, then clean it with more confidence. From Xcode build data and package caches to Docker, generated folders, app leftovers, duplicates, and privacy traces, it turns scattered disk clutter into a workflow you can inspect, review, and act on without losing control.

Mac App Store vs Direct distribution (from experience) 💡

If you re building a macOS app, this is one of those decisions that sounds simple but isn t.

When I started building Room Service, I assumed I d ship it on the Mac App Store.

Projects: inspecting local repos in a new way


We just shipped Projects in Room Service.
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.

AI tools, game dev, vibe coding… same problem

I knew there was a gap here when I started building Room Service, 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.

Docker cleanup shouldn’t feel like a ritual

docker cleanup is basically
delete everything and hope nothing breaks

or remembering a bunch of commands like:

Build Watchers and Dev Ports: seeing more of what is happening on a developer Mac 🔭

Room Service 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.