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HN · launched Feb 15, 2026 · 224 upvotes (top 4%) · 1 view
Niche: cyber threat intelligence platforms · 66 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -56% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 66 launches in cyber threat intelligence platforms →
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 : 1124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 1125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 104 days after the earliest competitor.
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- IsHumanCadence · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HN Bot Detector · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time · hn · 2026-07-17 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Bb · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site · hn · 2026-05-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Vorflux 2.0: Autobots · yc · 2026-11-10 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- discord-server-raider-installer · github · 2026-11-04 · 138 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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