Openhouse
Don't deploy. Share what you built. Straight from your Mac.
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Details
- External ID
- 1272485
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Openhouse
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Design Tools, Artificial Intelligence, Maker Tools
Description
Openhouse turns the project running on your Mac into a link anyone can open. Press play to share. Press pause and it's gone. No overhead, cost or security concerns. Changes show up instantly. The perfect collaboration tool for AI builders.
Enrichment
- Niche
- startup discovery and launch platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local tunneling tool for sharing local mac projects without deploying
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the macOS menu bar UI is simple, building reliable, secure tunneling infrastructure that exposes localhost to public URLs with instant pause/play requires low-level networking and globally distributed edge proxies.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a lightweight native macOS daemon running WireGuard or custom multiplexed TCP/TLS tunnels (like ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnel) connected to an edge server fleet running Envoy or Go-based reverse proxies. The hard parts are handling NAT traversal, automatic TLS certificate termination per dynamic subdomain, and zero-trust auth/token rotation. Requires specialized systems and network infrastructure expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 53 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
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- KeepHouse · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Initials · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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