OML Labs
Networks, rebuilt in the browser.
Details
- External ID
- 1245622
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OML Labs
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Tech, Online Learning
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
OML is a self-hosted network simulator that runs real Cisco IOS, ASA, Juniper, Linux & Windows VMs in your browser. Draw topologies, boot real images, capture packets — free for 5 nodes.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- network development environment for the browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Simulating complex enterprise network devices like Cisco IOS and Juniper alongside full VMs in a browser requires deep systems, hypervisor, and network virtualization engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture relies on a backend orchestration cluster running QEMU/KVM and container runtimes interconnected via Linux bridging, veth pairs, or Open vSwitch for virtual packet forwarding. In-browser interaction requires low-latency streaming of serial and graphical consoles using WebSockets with xterm.js and VNC/Guacamole proxies. Building this demands deep low-level Linux systems programming and networking infrastructure expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 21 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 22 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
- HomeNetworkInventory · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Node.JS in the Browser · hn · 2026-08-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Flowctl · hn · 2025-12-01 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- OMPiUI · github · 2026-09-25 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Omni Line · ph · 2026-09-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- lab-ipxe-os · github · 2026-09-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- usectl · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Whole-home VPN router with hardware kill switch (OpenWrt and WireGuard) · hn · 2025-11-27 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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