Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
Details
- External ID
- 46731432
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 278
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9762845849802372
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lan discovery tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a LAN discovery tool in Go with a TUI (using Bubbletea) relies on standard ARP scanning, mDNS, and socket pinging libraries, which AI assistants can generate rapidly.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: nmap, Tailscale, Wireshark, Netdisco, tcpdump
Concerns raised: Does not scale with 20-30 small utilities installed, Security risk handing RCE to multiple developers vs OS publishers, IPv4-only, most LANs have IPv6, Limited adoption outside mobile networks
Feature requests: LLDP and CDP protocol support, IPv6 support, Cross-platform VPN compatibility (Mac and Windows)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1095 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 1096 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
- SubnetLens · hn · 2026-09-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- stelliberty_android · github · 2026-09-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NetSour, the modular packet analyzer TUI · hn · 2026-08-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Oproxy · hn · 2026-06-07 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- PC-Monitor · github · 2026-09-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- LLMNet · hn · 2026-01-25 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- WhiteGame · github · 2026-09-17 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Portview · hn · 2026-02-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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