Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

lexokoh | 128 points

Ports 2000 - 6000?

I know I am getting old but when did we stop running things on 8xxx? The more 8's the more dev it was. 8000, 8080, 8088, 8888

donatj | 10 days ago

On macOS i've this in my zshrc file:

`killport() { kill -9 $(lsof -t -i :$1 -sTCP:LISTEN) }`

i use it like killport 8000

faangguyindia | 10 days ago

I'm not looking forward to the near future where it will become harder and harder to distinguish little projects like this from AI generated tools.

_def | 10 days ago

What is "development process" ??? What is "business use case" of this tool? Such a big readme and no introduction to why I should be interested in this tool.

dsab | 10 days ago

Didn't expect to see the FSL for that kind of project :)

The part I'm interested in is the tray_icon crate but I'll look at the package directly https://docs.rs/tray-icon/latest/tray_icon/.

hbbio | 10 days ago

lsof is a bit heavy, I wouldn't want that running every 5 seconds to be honest.

sgt | 10 days ago

Interesting idea ("manages development processes running on ports 2000-6000"), and props for hitting the front page though technically this is a "Show HN". Screenshot(s)?

password4321 | 10 days ago

If only I was on mac, something like this probably exists on windows I just need to find it. great idea however

sdotdev | 10 days ago

Neat! There's also a raycast extension for this kind of thing for anyone who wants to go that route:

https://www.raycast.com/lucaschultz/port-manager

nbbaier | 10 days ago

These would be good additions to SwiftBar/BitBar.

incanus77 | 10 days ago

Green -> Red -> Orange

That is an odd progression

naikrovek | 10 days ago

This has 10 additional deps. 10! Rust is the new Javascript.

phplovesong | 10 days ago

[dead]

skyzouwdev | 10 days ago