Secure Pipes 2.0
SSH tunnels and proxy routing, built for macOS
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Details
- External ID
- 1278102
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Secure Pipes 2.0
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps, Security
Description
Secure Pipes is a native macOS app for managing SSH connections, local and remote port forwarding, and SOCKS proxies in one place. Organize connections and host presets, monitor status, traffic and logs, and reconnect when links drop. Rule-based transparent proxy routing adds per-rule DNS, caching and ordered failover. Encrypted WebDAV backup helps move settings between Macs. Start with Free and try Pro features for 7 days.
Enrichment
- Niche
- networking and tunneling utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ssh tunnel and proxy management app for macos users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Managing SSH configs via a GUI is simple, but configuring transparent rule-based proxying and custom DNS routing on macOS requires low-level system networking capabilities.
What it would actually take: Needs a native Swift/Objective-C app implementing macOS NetworkExtension APIs (such as NETransparentProxyProvider or NEPacketTunnelProvider) alongside low-level packet filter (pf) rules. Developers must deal with privileged helper daemons, system security entitlements from Apple, and edge cases in Darwin network routing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 307 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #185 of 308 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
- OpenSurge for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- SSHive · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- vps-ssh-with-tailscale · github · 2026-09-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- tunnl.gg · ph · 2026-10-08 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SSHFlow · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- byosynch · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Veil · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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