Tessera
Press kit · v2.0

Press kit

Single-page kit for journalists, podcasters, and reviewers who want to write about Tessera v2.0 without us in the loop. Everything below is cleared for use without prior permission.

Launch date. Wednesday, 2026-06-03 (12:01 AM PT) on Product Hunt.
Embargo. None.
Press contact. press@tessera.app · Twitter @dkhomenko

↓ Download full press kit (.zip) ↓ Screenshots only (.zip)

Product summary (paste verbatim)

Tessera v2.0 is a forensic disk inspector for Mac developers. It audits your home directory like a museum curator catalogues a collection: every byte placed, every category named, every reclaim traceable. The killer demo — on a typical Mac developer machine, ~121 GB sits scattered across the iOS Simulator empire (five system paths plus four mounted APFS containers). No other cleaner aggregates it. Tessera shows it as a single tile in the Atlas treemap and offers one-click retire. v2.0 brings 14 new cleanup vectors (Docker, IDE caches, Xcode DerivedData, iOS Simulator runtimes, browser caches, Mail attachments, photo dupes, music cache, network downloads, Node globals, sandbox/temp, MAS cache, plus existing categories), a parallel rayon walker with streaming RSS ≤ 90 MB on a million-file tree, a menubar minibar with Quick Scan / Top-3 reclaimable / Drop Zone, a Pro tier with BYOK Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini AI, and a Flutter Web mobile companion that nudges you via APNs when a scheduled scan finishes.

Key stats

Metricv1.0 (Sprint 66)v2.0 (Sprint 106)Delta
Cleanup vectors shipped519+14
Tests (Rust + Dart)~4101029+619
Sprints landed66116+50
Peak RSS, 1M-file walk~280 MB~90 MB−68%
Cold-start budget~140 ms~70 ms−50%
FFI methods~50~85+35
Pro AI providersAnthropicAnthropic · OpenAI · Gemini+2
App Intents (Shortcuts)210+8
LanguagesEN · UAEN · UA · RU+1
Mobile companion—Flutter Web + APNsnew

Founder bio (paste verbatim)

Daniel Khomenko is the principal developer behind Tessera. He shipped Tessera v1.0 in March 2026 after a single 6-month build cycle, then immediately spent another five months on Roadmap II + Roadmap III — the 50-sprint extension that becomes v2.0. He runs Wezom, a small Kyiv-based software studio that ships consumer Mac utilities (Tessera) and Flutter mobile apps (KSD, MrGrill). Before Wezom, Daniel built iOS and macOS apps at Reaktor (Helsinki) and was a contributor to open-source Swift package tooling. He's reachable on Twitter at @dkhomenko and writes occasionally at dkhomenko.com.

What's new in v2.0

  • 14 new cleanup vectors — Docker, IDE caches, Xcode DerivedData, iOS Simulator runtimes, MAS cache, browser caches, Mail attachments, photo dupes, music cache, network downloads, Node globals, sandbox/temp, plus a Pro-only photo-duplicate detector that finds visually-identical screenshots/exports via perceptual DCT hashing.
  • Performance overhaul — rayon-parallel walker streams entries through an mpsc channel; peak RSS ≤ 90 MB on a million-file home directory (was ~280 MB); cold-start ~70 ms (was ~140 ms); FRB call batching collapses six menubar sub-views into one cross-boundary call.
  • Pro tier shipped — BYOK Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini for long-tail classification + chat; Smart Suggestions v1; Pro-only photo dupes, scheduled cleanup, and Mac-companion mobile app.

Screenshots (5 Product Hunt frames, 1280 × 800)

  1. v2-1-atlas.png — Atlas v2 treemap post-scan, 10-tile vivid palette, hero counter showing ~121 GB iOS Simulator empire.
  2. v2-2-minibar.png — Menubar popover open, Top-3 reclaimable live-list, Quick Scan idle icon, Snooze AI + Local-Only toggles.
  3. v2-3-quick-scan.png — Quick Scan flow mid-run, hero ticking, minibar icon in "scanning" state.
  4. v2-4-vectors.png — Drilldown into a cleanup vector tile (Docker dangling images).
  5. v2-5-drop-zone.png — Drop Zone screencap: dragging a folder from Finder onto the menubar icon triggers a drop-scan.

Logo bundle

  • App icon, SVG. tessera-icon.svg — vector source.
  • App icon, 1024 × 1024 PNG. tessera-icon-1024.png
  • App icon, 512 × 512 PNG. tessera-icon-512.png
  • App icon, 256 × 256 PNG. tessera-icon-256.png
  • "v2.0" lockup, SVG. Wordmark with hairline-rule · v2.0 suffix in JetBrains Mono.
  • Product Hunt thumbnail, 240 × 240 PNG. T-mark on paper-cream square, no rounded corners (PH applies its own).
  • Product Hunt gallery hero, 1270 × 760 PNG. Atlas v2 screenshot with a 32 px vermilion-orange frame.

Use-of-brand guidelines (paste verbatim)

The Tessera brand (T-mark, wordmark, "Atlas Edition" name, "v2.0" lockup) is © 2026 Wezom. Use the assets to refer to Tessera (reviews, articles, comparisons) without prior permission. Don't use them to imply endorsement, partnership, or co-publishing. When quoting voice-over scripts or in-app copy, attribute "Tessera" verbatim — don't paraphrase the tagline (every fragment, placed.).

Inquiry email

Press inquiries, podcast invites, review copies, conference talks: press@tessera.app

We aim to reply within 2 business days. For urgent / breaking-news matters, message Daniel Khomenko on Twitter @dkhomenko — usually faster.

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