Census
Who's on my Wi-Fi, with the reason when it can't tell
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Every device on your network in one window: name, model, maker, IP, first seen, as a map or a grouped list. New ones get a badge and a notification. When a device can't be identified, Census says why (private Wi-Fi address, asleep, guest-network isolation) and how to check, instead of printing unknown. Runs entirely on your device: nothing uploaded, no account, no location permission. One purchase covers Mac and iPhone, unlimited devices. English and Chinese, macOS 14 or iOS 17 or later.
PH · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and device catalog are simple, but low-level local network discovery (ARP scanning, mDNS/Bonjour, SSDP, TCP probing) under strict iOS sandbox restrictions requires native networking expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/Objective-C targeting iOS/macOS using Network.framework, POSIX socket calls, and Bonjour/mDNS service discovery. The hard part is reliably probing local subnet hosts and diagnosing why a device is unidentified (MAC address masking, client isolation, asleep vs quiet) while complying with Apple's strict local network permissions. Requires a systems/iOS network engineer familiar with low-level protocol behavior and OS sandboxing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 259 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #217 of 260 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- Network Sentinel · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- What Phone Do I Have? · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- wifi-association-presence · github · 2026-10-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- WiFi Plan · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Dataly - Data Usage Monitor · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- WiFi Health Check · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- WiAware · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DocSaver: ID & Receipt Vault · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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