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I'm launching Wirewiki.com today!Wirewiki makes the internet’s hidden infrastructure browsable.I quit my job 5 years ago to scale Nslookup.io. But after reaching 600k monthly users, I hit a ceiling. I couldn't naturally expand beyond DNS because of the domain name.So I went back to the drawing board: how would I make it today? Not as a collection of tools, but as a browsable graph.I've spent hundreds of hours and commits building that. It's not even at 10% of what I want it to be, but more than enough to be useful, and (in my biased opinion) much better than what's out there.Wirewiki launches with DNS lookup, propagation, zone transfer and SPF checking. It also scans the entire IPv4 space for DNS servers and indexes them. I'm working on adding more data and tools.I feel like I've developed tunnel vision, so if you see anything that feels off, let me know!I'll keep Wirewiki open and free. Once it has a substantial amount of users, I'll open it up to sponsorship / brand integration from hosting providers, registrars and CDNs, as users will likely be in the market for those. But my goal is to keep Wirewiki free from display ads. I'm confident that's viable.
HN · launched Feb 9, 2026 · 110 upvotes (top 10%) · 0 views
Niche: vertical search engines and directories · 98 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Creating the basic UI and single lookup tools is straightforward, but maintaining an indexed, browsable database of global internet infrastructure (all DNS root paths, historical DNS data, autonomous systems, and BGP/IP mappings) at scale requires dedicated data pipelines and massive scraping/storage infrastructure. Vibe coding alone cannot establish or sustain that level of distributed network crawling and historical data ingestion.
What it would actually take: The product requires distributed edge probes performing regular recursive DNS resolutions, zone transfers, and WHOIS/RDAP crawling, paired with ingestion of public BGP routing tables (Route Views/RIPE NCC). The backend necessitates high-throughput time-series or graph databases (such as ClickHouse or Neo4j) to map relationships between ASNs, IP blocks, and nameservers. Managing global network crawler infrastructure without hitting IP bans or DNS rate limits requires seasoned infrastructure engineering.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MXToolbox, RIPE Stat, DNSViz, resolve.rs, StackFox
Concerns raised: Misuse of term "wiki" - not actually collaboratively edited, Tool could be useful to attackers for reconnaissance, Naive IPv4 scanning returns junk results (home routers, IoT devices), Currently just a DNS lookup tool, not a complete wire/infrastructure graph yet, Scope creep risk - could spend indefinitely building without completing
Feature requests: Integrate DNSViz for DNSSEC status checking, Show shared fate analysis - detect nameserver redundancy illusions (same ASN, upstream, parent domain), Display domain presence on popular blocklists, Add ASN data to NS and MX records (currently only on A/AAAA records), CLI tool version
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #29 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 99 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TheLittleHost · hn · 2026-03-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- SmokeVPN · hn · 2026-08-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I built a site that maps the web from a bounty hunter's perspective · hn · 2026-03-23 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes · hn · 2026-09-30 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- StackScope · hn · 2026-06-12 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Mapping DNS · hn · 2025-12-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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