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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 52%) · 1 view
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 178 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- littlesnitch
- macos
- swift
- swiftui
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Could you build this?
Partial A basic network monitor with a dashboard and alerting is vibe-codeable, but reliably identifying remote access trojans requires threat signatures, behavioral detection, and deep packet inspection that a conversational build won't produce.
What it would actually take: Start with packet capture (libpcap or Npcap) feeding flow metadata into a web dashboard. The hard part is detection: you need curated threat intelligence, IOC feeds, and tuned behavioral heuristics or ML models, plus a security engineer to validate false-positive rates and avoid missing real intrusions.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 618 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #311 of 619 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.
- get-the-hacker · github · 2026-10-27 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Watch all the AI agents on your machine · hn · 2026-09-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go · hn · 2026-01-23 · 278 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- WifiWatch · github · 2026-10-05 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- See how much your AI knows about you · hn · 2026-08-24 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- offense · github · 2026-10-27 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- bastion · github · 2026-10-30 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities · hn · 2026-07-06 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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