David Tereba

When you launch a product as a solo maker, you mentally prepare for the usual challenges: crickets on launch day, low conversion rates, or fighting for early feedback. What you rarely prepare for is a scammer cloning your entire landing page, embedding malware, and trying to hijack your search traffic before you even reach scale.

Here is the story of how DevCleaner went from a tool built out of personal frustration on macOS to a paid utility with global customers - and the weird lessons learned along the way.

The Problem: The Invisible Disk Eater

If you write code on macOS, you know the struggle:

Your Mac was full of Xcode caches while Cursor was still running and holding half of them hostage. DevCleaner 1.10.1 doesn t fight the open app. It cleans around it.

We ve been living in the menu bar for months. This release makes that feel like the product - not a shortcut to a bigger window.

What s new in 1.10.1

Decided to actually look at my own storage numbers instead of just building the feature that clears them out.

Xcode alone: 25.51 GB of derived data + simulator junk. Android Studio: 2.58 GB. Cursor: 208 MB.

Over the last 30 days DevCleaner has cleared 55.59 GB across 83 cleanups on my Mac (95.35 GB all-time).

It's honestly wild how much silent bloat piles up from dev tooling build caches, simulators, AI tool caches none of it visible unless you go digging for it.