Doorman
Turn localhost ports into memorable HTTPS names
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: networking and tunneling utilities · 190 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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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 : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #175 of 234 (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
- Localock: Password Manager · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Orbit · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- localfly · github · 2026-11-08 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- iLead - SSH and SFTP Manager · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- portex · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- All in Term · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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