htop for the airwaves — a live 802.11 RF dashboard in your terminal
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HN · launched May 29, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 40%) · 2 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · 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 While terminal interfaces are easy to build, capturing and analyzing 802.11 wireless frames in real time requires low-level kernel driver integration and RF packet parsing.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires C, Rust, or Go using Linux `nl80211` netlink APIs and `libpcap` to switch compatible Wi-Fi hardware into monitor mode and handle active channel hopping. The difficult part is parsing 802.11 radiotap frames and beacon/probe packets at line rate, accurately calculating signal-to-noise ratios and channel utilization, and feeding aggregated telemetry to a TUI without dropping frames.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1035 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #382 of 1036 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 210 days after the earliest competitor.
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