AI Agent Process Reaper
Find and kill orphan dev servers and headless browsers that AI coding agents forgot, saving Mac RAM
- Problem
- AI agents often start dev servers and headless browsers and then forget to close them, draining Mac RAM every couple of hours. Users resort to randomly quitting apps and hoping, with no idea who is actually eating memory or where the orphan processes are.
- Solution
- A menu bar app that scans and lists orphan processes still using memory after their parent exited (dev servers, headless browsers), shows reclaimable RAM, and frees it in one click. It warns a few minutes before memory pressure hits and supports a whitelist so you don't kill something important.
- Users
- Mac developers who heavily use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar AI coding agents.
- MVP
- Scan and rank orphan processes by memory; show parent process and start command; one-click kill with reclaimed memory shown; local notification when memory crosses a threshold; whitelist support.
- Revenue
- Free with a $9.9 one-time Pro unlock (scheduled auto-cleanup, whitelist sync, history reports).
- Why now
- AI agents are becoming the main way people code, but nobody manages the process garbage they leave behind. macOS process and memory APIs make a solo MVP feasible in a week.