This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
Product upvotes vs the next 3
Waiting for data. Loading
Product comments vs the next 3
Waiting for data. Loading
Product upvote speed vs the next 3
Waiting for data. Loading
Product upvotes and comments
Waiting for data. Loading
Product vs the next 3
Loading
Yerd
The open-source Herd alternative for macOS & Linux
Yerd is a rootless, open-source local PHP dev environment for macOS & Linux - a Laravel Herd alternative with no Docker, no sudo, no subscription. Drop a folder in and it's live at atest domain with automatic HTTPS. Per-site PHP versions, managed Composer/Node/Bun, databases, a mail catcher, and live Laravel telemetry - all from one tiny ~8MB Rust daemon. MIT-licensed and built in the open.
I'm Richard, a co-founder of FORJED, and the main developer behind Yerd.
Yerd came out of a simple frustration: getting a PHP project running locally still means picking your poison. Docker eats RAM and battery and turns a fast request into a slow one. The convenient native option is closed-source, macOS-only, and paywalls the good parts behind a subscription. And the DIY route - Homebrew PHP, nginx configs, mkcert, dnsmasq - works right up until it silently doesn't.
I wanted something that just gets out of the way: drop a folder in, get a .test site with real HTTPS, switch PHP versions per project, and never think about it again. So I built it. Yerd started off as a CLI using Go, but has been rebuilt from the ground up using Rust, with a GUI first approach (although the CLI still exists!)
A few things I'm proud of:
- It's a single ~8 MB Rust daemon. No containers, no VM, no Electron. - It's rootless - setup asks for elevation exactly once, and nothing runs as root afterwards. - HTTPS is automatic via a local CA. No mkcert, no browser warnings. - Databases, a mail catcher, managed Composer/Node/Bun, and live Laravel telemetry are all built in. - It's MIT-licensed and open source. No subscription, ever.
It runs on macOS and Linux today, and Windows is on the roadmap.
I'd genuinely love your feedback - what your current local setup looks like, what's missing, and what would make you switch. I'll be here all day answering everything.
Thanks for taking a look
About Yerd on Product Hunt
“The open-source Herd alternative for macOS & Linux”
Yerd was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #87 on the daily leaderboard. Yerd is a rootless, open-source local PHP dev environment for macOS & Linux - a Laravel Herd alternative with no Docker, no sudo, no subscription. Drop a folder in and it's live at atest domain with automatic HTTPS. Per-site PHP versions, managed Composer/Node/Bun, databases, a mail catcher, and live Laravel telemetry - all from one tiny ~8MB Rust daemon. MIT-licensed and built in the open.
On the analytics side, Yerd competes within Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 729k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Yerd performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Yerd?
Yerd was hunted by Richard Anderson. 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.
For a complete overview of Yerd including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Richard Anderson
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Richard, a co-founder of FORJED, and the main developer behind Yerd.
Yerd came out of a simple frustration: getting a PHP project running locally still means picking your poison. Docker eats RAM and battery and turns a fast request into a slow one. The convenient native option is closed-source, macOS-only, and paywalls the good parts behind a subscription. And the DIY route - Homebrew PHP, nginx configs, mkcert, dnsmasq - works right up until it silently doesn't.
I wanted something that just gets out of the way: drop a folder in, get a .test site with real HTTPS, switch PHP versions per project, and never think about it again. So I built it. Yerd started off as a CLI using Go, but has been rebuilt from the ground up using Rust, with a GUI first approach (although the CLI still exists!)
A few things I'm proud of:
- It's a single ~8 MB Rust daemon. No containers, no VM, no Electron.
- It's rootless - setup asks for elevation exactly once, and nothing runs as root afterwards.
- HTTPS is automatic via a local CA. No mkcert, no browser warnings.
- Databases, a mail catcher, managed Composer/Node/Bun, and live Laravel telemetry are all built in.
- It's MIT-licensed and open source. No subscription, ever.
It runs on macOS and Linux today, and Windows is on the roadmap.
I'd genuinely love your feedback - what your current local setup looks like, what's missing, and what would make you switch. I'll be here all day answering everything.
Thanks for taking a look