treadiehq/port-kill

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2036 stars · 55 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Port Kill is a Rust-based CLI and macOS status bar app that finds and kills processes blocking development ports, and also manages dev caches and orchestrates services. It works across macOS, Linux, and Windows, locally or over SSH.

Use cases

• kill the process blocking port 3000
• find which process is using a port
• clear stale build caches from my dev machine
• restart a dev server automatically after killing its port
• manage multiple dev services with a config file
• monitor dev ports in a macOS menu bar

When to choose

• you frequently hit 'port already in use' errors during development
• you want a cross-platform CLI plus a macOS status bar app
• you need simple multi-service orchestration and cache cleanup in one tool

When to avoid

• you need production-grade process management or init systems like systemd
• you only need a one-off kill command already covered by lsof/kill
• you require a GUI on Linux or Windows

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools monitoring workflow-automation developer-tools windows cli port-management process-killer cache-cleanup status-bar service-orchestration rust command-line devops macos linux

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