Oproxy
inspect and modify network traffic from the browser
Details
- External ID
- 48431079
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Oproxy
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 70
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8825136612021858
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- inspect and modify browser network traffic
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The browser UI is simple to vibe-code, but intercepting, decrypting, and rewriting arbitrary network traffic from the browser requires low-level proxying and MITM certificate handling.
What it would actually take: Requires an HTTP/HTTPS/WebSocket man-in-the-middle proxy engine (written in Rust or Go) with a local root CA generation and installation workflow, communicating via WebSockets with a frontend inspector UI (like Chrome DevTools protocol). The challenge lies in reliable streaming chunk modification, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol support, and OS-level network interception.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: mitmproxy, Clawchrome, ferret
Concerns raised: Early phase, needs more human review and polish, Code quality issues, written by Claude without proper review, Web interface access not clearly documented, Docker-based deployment adds friction vs. native app, Browser built-in network inspector overlaps functionality
Feature requests: Better documentation for accessing web UI, Native app distribution instead of Docker, Traffic shaping capabilities
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 757 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #97 of 758 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 219 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go · hn · 2026-01-23 · 278 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- plexo · github · 2026-09-15 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Underweb · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MCP Traffic Analyze with NPM · hn · 2025-12-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Toolkit · hn · 2026-03-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- web-stealth-farm · github · 2026-09-17 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.54
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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