Indie dev ships WTMemory, a $9 Mac utility that hunts memory-hogging local AI models
saibharadwaj · x · 2026-09-11
Indie developer saibharadwaj shipped his 43rd product: WTMemory, a Mac menu-bar utility built for a vibe-coding pain point — IDEs, AI models, dev servers, and bloat quietly eat your memory and you have no idea where it went.
Product highlights:
- Free inspection; Pro is a $9 one-time purchase, up to 3 Macs
- Tiny footprint: 794 KB, native Swift, zero Electron, 100% offline, no tracking
- Focuses on what legacy cleaners can't see: Ollama model weights, HuggingFace cache, LM Studio/ComfyUI GGUF checkpoints and LoRAs
- Real-world scan on an M-series Mac found 94 GB: Ollama 42.7 GB, HuggingFace 24.1 GB, LM Studio/Diffusion 11.8 GB, plus developer junk like Xcode DerivedData (18.4 GB) and Docker disk images (14.7 GB)
- Includes one-click cleanup, dev-server killing, DNS cache clearing, and more
A small-but-real indie monetization case: productizing "AI-era Mac junk" with a buy-once pricing model.
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