Knock-Knock.net
Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door
Details
- External ID
- 47025338
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Knock-Knock.net
- Website domain
- knock-knock.net
- Launched
- Feb. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 224
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9588948787061995
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- visualize bot traffic to your server
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A honeypot dashboard collecting connection attempts across common network ports and displaying them over WebSockets is easily achievable using off-the-shelf honeypot daemons (like Cowrie) and a web frontend.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Hetzner, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, GCP (hosting providers), PayPal (payment method), T-Pot (honeypot framework), Fail2ban (abuse prevention), Grafana + Prometheus (data collection and visualization)
Concerns raised: Debit cards not accepted by hosting providers, US bank cards have less friction than international cards, PayPal fraud abuse and poor fraud handling, DigitalOcean has high bot/abuse traffic and doesn't care about abuse reports, Virtual cards difficult or impossible to obtain in some regions
Feature requests: Replay events from SQL database with timestamps, Integration with Grafana + Prometheus for visualization, Support for multiple payment methods including debit cards
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 333 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 334 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 94 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mousecrack · hn · 2026-07-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- IsHumanCadence · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time · hn · 2026-07-17 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HN Bot Detector · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site · hn · 2026-05-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Bb · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Captcha to detect bots with a simple question · hn · 2026-04-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PhishHunt · github · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a observability & eval tool for Media & entertainment yet.