Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps)
Details
- External ID
- 46933422
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps)
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight port viewer for linux
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1416 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1314 of 1417 (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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- FSM · hn · 2026-06-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.71
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- Portcullis, a review gate for curl|bash · hn · 2026-04-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Spliff · hn · 2026-01-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- teatime-os · github · 2026-09-15 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- RealXV6 · hn · 2026-01-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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