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PortlessBar
Your Portless apps, one click away from the macOS menu bar
A free, open-source macOS companion for Portless. Open registered local apps from your menu bar, toggle the proxy without stopping your dev servers, and launch at login. Native Swift, no account or analytics. Requires macOS 14+ and Portless.
Hi, I’m Akshit, the maker of PortlessBar.
Portless gives local development apps named URLs. PortlessBar keeps those apps and the proxy switch within reach in your Mac’s menu bar. You still run your apps through the CLI; the companion handles opening them and connecting or disconnecting the proxy.
It’s free and open source under Apache 2.0, written in Swift, and has no account or analytics. The download is signed and notarized for Apple Silicon and Intel. You need macOS 14+ and an existing Portless installation.
Install with: brew install --cask akshitkrnagpal/tap/portlessbar
This is an independent project, not affiliated with Vercel. If you use Portless, what would you want in the menu bar?
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About PortlessBar on Product Hunt
“Your Portless apps, one click away from the macOS menu bar”
PortlessBar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #84 on the daily leaderboard. A free, open-source macOS companion for Portless. Open registered local apps from your menu bar, toggle the proxy without stopping your dev servers, and launch at login. Native Swift, no account or analytics. Requires macOS 14+ and Portless.
PortlessBar was featured in Open Source (69k followers), Developer Tools (521.5k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 110k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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PortlessBar was hunted by Akshit Kr Nagpal. 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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