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Standard desktop clients rely on USB MTP, which completely freezes when scanning massive Android folders. SocketSweep bypasses MTP entirely. It pushes a custom C++ daemon directly to your phone via ADB to run raw POSIX scans at bare-metal speeds. That data streams through a local Rust TCP bridge straight into a React Treemap UI. What usually takes minutes of your OS hanging now takes a literal second.
hey everyone 👋
tbh the main reason i built this: i had to clear out my dad's phone storage lol.
trying to figure out what's eating up space using android's default analyzer on a tiny screen is super annoying. but if you plug it into a pc, standard MTP just freezes forever when scanning huge folders.
so i built a bypass. SocketSweep gives you a massive, instant visual treemap of your android storage right on your desktop.
it completely bypasses MTP so it doesn't freeze your PC
it scans instantly using a custom C++ daemon over ADB
it visualizes everything so you can easily spot and nuke huge files in seconds
it's completely free, open-source (built with rust/tauri), and honestly just makes cleaning up phones way less of a headache.
would love for u guys to test it out next time u need to clear up an android device. let me know what u think!
SocketSweep was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Standard desktop clients rely on USB MTP, which completely freezes when scanning massive Android folders. SocketSweep bypasses MTP entirely. It pushes a custom C++ daemon directly to your phone via ADB to run raw POSIX scans at bare-metal speeds. That data streams through a local Rust TCP bridge straight into a React Treemap UI. What usually takes minutes of your OS hanging now takes a literal second.
On the analytics side, SocketSweep competes within Android, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 679.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how SocketSweep performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted SocketSweep?
SocketSweep was hunted by Vishnu Srivatsava. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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