Inspector
Catch Windows processes that flash and disappear
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Details
- External ID
- 1270434
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Inspector
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3239751156484288
- Tags
- Windows, GitHub, Tech, Security
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Inspector is a local-first Windows investigation tool for short-lived processes. It captures command lines, parent chains, hashes and process lifetimes through Sysmon, correlates persistence, and turns the evidence into an interactive HTML report. No cloud. No telemetry. Open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop system and file utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- process monitoring tool for fleeting windows tasks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Parsing Sysmon event logs and rendering an interactive HTML report can be built easily, but reliably capturing and correlating ephemeral Windows process execution, parent chains, and memory/hash telemetry without kernel-level race conditions requires low-level Windows systems programming.
What it would actually take: The product requires a local agent written in Rust, C++, or C# interfacing directly with Windows Event Tracing (ETW) and Windows Event Logs (specifically Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational). The hard part is handling high-volume event streams, resolving fast-dying process handles before process exit, and accurately calculating binary hashes for transient processes. An engineer with Windows internals and security operations background is necessary.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 70 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 71 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open Investigator · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Inspector—AI IDE for front-end · yc · 2025-11-12 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Intruder Guard · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- DiskScope: disk space analyzer · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Text File Editor · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Why Did Windows Restart? · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Extension Auditor - google chrome · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- windows-pro-toolkit · github · 2026-10-04 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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