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BugBnB
A bed & breakfast for bugs. Your Trash is the kitchen.
BugBnB is a native macOS menu bar app. It watches your Trash — when the bin gets big enough or old enough, five species move in: fruit flies, cockroaches, ants, drain flies and mosquitoes, and they don't fly at random. Ants lay pheromone trails and carry crumbs in a line, cockroaches run the screen edges, mosquitoes bite your idle cursor. Empty the Trash and a little garbage truck tips the bin. Pest control: shoo, spray, or flamethrower. Free, native, no account, no tracking. macOS 11+.
I kept forgetting to take out the trash. Not from laziness — the bin just sits there quietly and never says anything, until one day you walk past it and something smells.
So instead of trying to remember, I decided to let something else remember for me. I'd seen BananaBin, where a fly buzzes around the Trash, and thought the idea could be pushed much further: not one fly, but five species that behave like the real thing.
That's where most of the work went. I read up on Drosophila flight and watched how ants lay trails, because a bug that flies in a straight line looks like a screensaver, and a bug that surges and casts into the wind looks alive. The garbage truck exists for the same reason — watching the bin simply vanish felt wrong.
I'm the maker of BugBnB. It's a small macOS menu bar app that watches your Trash — when the bin gets big enough or old enough, five species move in: fruit flies, cockroaches, ants, drain flies and mosquitoes.
It exists because I kept forgetting to take out the trash. Not laziness — the bin just sits there quietly and never says anything, until one day you walk past it and something smells. So instead of trying to remember, I let something else remember for me.
Most of the work went into making the bugs behave like real ones instead of a screensaver. Ants send a scout out first, then lay a pheromone trail so the others can carry crumbs back in a line. Cockroaches run the screen edges and bolt off-screen when startled, and they're bolder at night. Mosquitoes will land on your cursor if you hold it still, and bite it. Empty the Trash and a little garbage truck drives in to tip the bin.
It's free, native, no account, no tracking. One caveat up front: I don't have a paid Apple Developer account, so the app is self-signed — the first time you open it macOS will block it, and you'll need to right-click the app and choose Open. Just once.
I'd love to hear what you think, especially if any of the guests feel too noisy, or if you want a sixth species. Thanks for stopping by 🐜
About BugBnB on Product Hunt
“A bed & breakfast for bugs. Your Trash is the kitchen.”
BugBnB was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #34 on the daily leaderboard. BugBnB is a native macOS menu bar app. It watches your Trash — when the bin gets big enough or old enough, five species move in: fruit flies, cockroaches, ants, drain flies and mosquitoes, and they don't fly at random. Ants lay pheromone trails and carry crumbs in a line, cockroaches run the screen edges, mosquitoes bite your idle cursor. Empty the Trash and a little garbage truck tips the bin. Pest control: shoo, spray, or flamethrower. Free, native, no account, no tracking. macOS 11+.
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