Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps)
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HN · launched Feb 8, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Building a zero-dependency ~930 KB systems diagnostic binary for Linux requires low-level systems programming in C, Rust, or Go directly querying kernel interfaces (/proc/net, netlink sockets, sockstat).
What it would actually take: The tool must parse Linux kernel internals directly using Netlink `inet_diag` sockets and `/proc/net/` entries to extract listening/active sockets, socket inode numbers, and match them against process descriptors via `/proc/[pid]/fd`. It is compiled statically using musl libc in C, Rust, or Go without external shared libraries to maintain a tiny binary footprint under 1 MB. This requires deep familiarity with Linux networking internals, socket APIs, and low-level systems debugging.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3676 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3351 of 3677 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 100 days after the earliest competitor.
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- hw-harness · github · 2026-10-14 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- qurp · github · 2026-10-11 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- hardware · github · 2026-10-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Procinsh · hn · 2026-10-07 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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