Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor (github.com)

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)?

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

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.

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.

On macOS i've this in my zshrc file:

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

i use it like killport 8000

These would be good additions to SwiftBar/BitBar.

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/.

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

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

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

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

Green -> Red -> Orange

That is an odd progression