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Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by Ancient on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:53PM (#21687949)
Looks good.

Suggestion: Allow users to test the application before paying by only displaying 1 or 2 open ports and below that show something like "XXX more open ports [Unlock]".

You could encourage users to pay by adding a quick feature to display:

- XXX standard open ports (ie: 21, 22, 80, 443)

- XXX unknown open ports

- XXX ports opened + closed past X minutes (monitoring)

The third line (open/closed) would be great for software that keeps opening/closing ports for unknown reasons, which could cause intermediate issues.

Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by xrd on Saturday November 30, 2019 @09:19PM (#21673388)
Is there something similar on Linux? I'm tired of using netstat -anp | grep $PORT and then searching for that process. This is a nice utility.
Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by citiguy on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:48AM (#21674401)
I haven't tried this app, but lsof is usually very helpful at finding things like this on Linux.
Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by microtherion on Saturday November 30, 2019 @09:27PM (#21673421)
Looks neat, and appears to work well.

I found the gumroad payment process a bit confusing. In particular, I wanted to first try before buying (among other reasons, apps like this have a tendency to fight the OS for permissions, so I wanted to be sure it works). I ended up ordering twice, once for $0 and the second time for >$0. Wish there had been an easier way.

Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by jimies on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:56AM (#21676327)
Thanks for downloading the app and for the feedback, I'll think about how to improve the user experience for purchasing / trying before you buy.
Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by flafla2 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:12AM (#21674299)
I'd imagine this was made mostly with developers in mind, but this looks like an incredibly useful tool for Gaming. Mapping ports to set up dedicated servers with friends can be a huge hassle! This would have been great when I used to run Minecraft servers.
Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by aryamaan on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:21PM (#21677577)
Such a nice utility. And the experience written on the webpage is exactly me.
Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by raarts on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:49AM (#21674409)
Would killing work with docker containers as well?
Re:Show HN: PortManager – Manage ports from your macOS menu bar by jimies on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:57AM (#21676338)
Hey there. I'm relatively new to Docker but I can test this out and let you know. If not, I'll see if there's a way to make it work in a future update. Cheers