Week 30ARCHIVED · JUL 20–26

Hoolo

Keep your Mac workspace quiet, clean, and reversible.

Tis ox@ilikexff
  • Productivity

About this project

Pitch

My Downloads and Desktop folders kept becoming a mess, but I was never comfortable giving a cleanup app permission to silently move or delete things. So I started building a native macOS utility around a simple rule: missing a file is better than moving or deleting the wrong one. It organizes files through visible rules, but the part I care most about is being able to preview the exact result before anything happens. Operations keep history and rollback information, and overlapping rules can either stop after a match or continue when the action is additive. Recently I added scheduled previews that generate HTML reports. The idea is that I can review proposed changes periodically without opening the app or allowing it to clean things automatically. I also added a small menu bar panel for enabling frequently used rules and opening the latest report. I’m still working through a few product decisions: What should a useful scheduled report include? Should overlapping rule conflicts be shown as warnings, or is an explicit stop/continue policy enough? Which file operations should always require confirmation? Would you actually use rule controls in the menu bar? I’d appreciate honest feedback, especially from people who already use Hazel, folder actions, or other Mac cleanup tools.

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Why we're launching this

From the team
I built Hoolo because file organization tends to fail in two opposite ways: it is either completely manual, or it is automated enough to feel risky. The goal was to make automation inspectable. Every rule starts as a Dry Run, shows the exact files and destinations it affects, and creates an undo snapshot when applied. That made it possible to support ongoing folder monitoring, duplicate review, Trash policies, and app leftover cleanup without asking users to trust a black box.
Tis ox

@ilikexff · founder

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