prt
Inspect ports and owning processes in your terminal
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Details
- External ID
- 1275192
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- prt
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
A free, MIT-licensed Rust TUI for macOS and Linux. Find port conflicts, inspect the owning process and follow process-to-port-to-endpoint topology. Filter live connections or export JSON, CSV and NDJSON. Version 0.6.0 installs with Cargo or Homebrew. Process visibility depends on OS permissions; macOS uses lsof and Linux reads /proc.
Enrichment
- Niche
- systems infrastructure and terminal utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cli tool to inspect open ports and related processes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a terminal UI is straightforward with modern crates, but cross-platform low-level OS process inspection and network socket tracing require deep OS-level socket and procfs/sysctl system programming.
What it would actually take: The stack would likely use Rust with Ratatui or Crossterm for the TUI interface. The hard part is writing the OS-specific hooks to inspect active sockets and map them reliably back to process IDs across both Linux (parsing /proc/net, netlink sockets) and macOS (using libproc and sysctl private APIs), which requires specialized systems programming knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 281 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #168 of 282 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Parqeye · hn · 2025-11-17 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- laya-candle · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Dechonk · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- npm Package Inspector · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Grsh · hn · 2026-01-14 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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