OpenSurge for Mac
Turn your Mac into a home gateway with per-device routing
Details
- External ID
- 1247376
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenSurge for Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, GitHub, Home improvement
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Turn your Mac into an open-source gateway for your home network. Route phones, TVs and consoles by device, domain or rule; import mihomo profiles or build your own policies; and see live connections, traffic and proxy health in a local web dashboard. Start with selected devices or let the Mac provide DHCP/DNS for a configured LAN. Includes transparent proxying, independent Mac routing, Tailscale outbound, experimental IPv6, and a menu bar app with recovery guidance.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac home gateway with per-device routing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While it wraps the mihomo core, configuring low-level macOS TUN network interfaces, PF firewall rules, and DHCP hijacking reliably requires non-trivial network systems engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves a native macOS daemon with root privileges (using LaunchDaemons / SMAppService) coordinating pf (packet filter), IP forwarding, and TUN/TAP devices alongside a packaged mihomo daemon. The critical challenge lies in macOS network stack manipulation (handling pf.conf dynamically, routing table updates, IPv6 RA/DHCP leasing) and providing fail-safe recovery mechanisms so host networking doesn't break upon crashes.
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Attention rank: #83 of 133 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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