Show HN: Forge Buddy – A Simple Menu Bar App for Laravel Forge Users

[wardy484]

Hey HN,

I've been quietly working on a small project called Forge Buddy. It's a menu bar app for Mac, designed to work with Laravel Forge. You can take a look here: forgebuddy.com.

It's just a simple tool that I thought might be helpful for those who use Laravel Forge. It allows you to manage your Forge server firewall rules from your Mac's menu bar. I tried to keep it straightforward and easy to use.

Where I work, we keep a lot of our servers locked down, except on the ports needed for operation. As such, I find myself regularly whitelisting my own IP address to enable access. I've been using it for a while and decided it might be interesting to polish it and launch it for others to use.

This is a pretty small-scale thing, and I'm not the best at promoting stuff. If you try it out, I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions you might have.