Doorman
Turn localhost ports into memorable HTTPS names
Details
- External ID
- 1262834
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Doorman
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Goodbye, localhost:3000. Hello, your-project.localhost. Doorman is an open-source macOS app and CLI that gives local dev servers stable HTTPS names. Manage routes and custom domains, inspect requests, status codes and latency, and share an app through Cloudflare or ngrok tunnels—all from one desktop workspace.
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local reverse proxy mapping localhost ports to https domains
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping tunneling tools or reverse proxying can be prototyped, building a stable macOS desktop application with root-level DNS/port bindings and local CA certificate generation requires deeper native systems programming.
What it would actually take: Requires native macOS development (Swift/Objective-C) or Electron/Tauri paired with a privileged helper daemon. The hard parts involve automatically provisioning and trusting local root CA certificates in the macOS keychain, managing local DNS responders, and binding to privileged network ports safely without compromising system security.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #68 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- iLead - SSH and SFTP Manager · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OpenSurge for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Portero · ph · 2026-07-14 · 166 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- VsTerm · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Sokket · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust · hn · 2026-04-02 · 115 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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