fr3on/portkill

Native macOS menu bar app that lists local listening ports, shows which project owns them, and stops them in one click.

Developer toolsSwift#developer-tools#kill-process#localhost#lsof#macos

2.0 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 01:30 UTC.

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About the project

Native macOS menu bar app that lists processes listening on local ports, identifies the owning project from the working directory, and stops them in one click.

Useful for

Find and stop the process occupying port 3000 without manual lsof and kill
Check which project holds a local port before starting a new server
Copy the docker stop command for a container publishing a port

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 7 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 63 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Recent forks include notable developers: @chenyukang (1,055 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 63
Today: 0 · ≈ 7 by evening
Forks: 2
Issues and pull requests: 4
Watchers: 0
Language: Swift
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.3.0 · September 27, 2026
Created: September 25, 2026
Last push: September 27, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 28, 2026Top new repositories this week: #198

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