Tether Link Utility
Share your phone's hotspot without the carrier's data cap
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Tether Link Utility runs a local SOCKS5 proxy on your Android phone, so shared hotspot traffic looks like normal on-device usage to your carrier — no separate hotspot data cap, no throttling, no root, no remote server involved. Free tier included; Pro removes ads and device limits.
PH · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view
Niche: networking and tunneling utilities · 190 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Privacy
- Travel
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Could you build this?
Partial While an Android UI with an embedded SOCKS proxy can be generated easily, bypassing carrier hotspot caps without root requires low-level Android network binding and packet TTL manipulation.
What it would actually take: A production version requires an Android app (Kotlin/C++) utilizing Android's VpnService or NetworkCapabilities to explicitly bind proxy sockets to the cellular interface, bypassing default tether routing. It must handle raw socket multiplexing, bypass deep packet inspection (DPI) and TTL hop decrement detection, and maintain robust foreground service persistence across battery optimizations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 291 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 292 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
- Smart Tether · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Relay · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- tether · github · 2026-10-27 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ProxyMobile · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Rich Proxies · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Unlimited Residential Proxy · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ReSocks · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Hotspotfly · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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