Snitch
my Mac talked to 347 servers in one idle hour, so I built this
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HN · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 40%)
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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See all 672 similar launches →Could you build this?
Yes It is a macOS utility that inspects active network connections with standard system tools and displays them with lookups and a UI, which is achievable with vibe coding.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: may be macOS-only
Feature requests: Windows and Linux support
Competitors
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Attention rank: #284 of 673 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
- I ran 70 MCP servers in a sandbox and logged what they do · hn · 2026-07-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Snitch · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I've been running OpenClaw on a $640 Mac Mini for a week. Honest report · hn · 2026-02-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I built a native macOS terminal with Git integration in 5 days · hn · 2026-07-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty · hn · 2026-02-18 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OpenBoot · hn · 2026-02-17 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I made a Mac app to centralize and monitor my dev tools · hn · 2026-10-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DDoS detection in 500 lines of Python (MIT, no cloud, no account) · hn · 2026-05-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- External ID
- 50165146
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Snitch
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.60
- All tags
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- AI summary
- network traffic monitor for macos
- Manually corrected
- No