porthole
KDE Plasma 6 system tray widget: switch SSH port forwards (ssh -L tunnels) on and off, and see every port listening on your machine.
This is 1 of 221 launches in systems infrastructure and terminal tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
65 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1401419177
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- porthole
- Website domain
- kde.org
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.17707509881422925
- Tags
- developer-tools, kde, kde-plasma, kde-widget, linux, linux-desktop, localhost, networking, plasma-applet, plasma-widget, plasma6, plasmoid, port-forwarding, ports, qml, ssh, ssh-tunnel, system-tray, systemd, tunnel
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems infrastructure and terminal tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- system tray widget for managing ssh port forwards
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a KDE Plasma 6 desktop applet built in QML and JavaScript/Bash that runs local SSH and netstat/ss commands to toggle tunnels and display listening ports.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 65 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #62 of 66 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- Port Sentinel · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- KimoShell · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ssh ssh.place · hn · 2026-08-03 · 186 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- sirca-shell · github · 2026-09-21 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- KDE-tv-remote · github · 2026-10-03 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Ping6.it · hn · 2026-01-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Deflect One · hn · 2026-04-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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