Mercek
A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS
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Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytimeI use Lens for Kubernetes but couldnt find an equivalent for ECS so i built one!The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek
HN · launched Jun 4, 2026 · 64 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud infrastructure and development platforms · 74 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes A desktop GUI wrapper built with Electron or Tauri that calls standard AWS ECS and CloudWatch APIs using local AWS CLI profiles.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Lens (for Kubernetes), E1S (terminal-based ECS tool)
Concerns raised: Security/malware risk in open source dependencies, UI consistency across platforms (Tauri webview differences), Tool scope limited to ECS when AWS has many interconnected services, Native toolkit preference over custom UI framework
Feature requests: Extend to other AWS services (ALB, ASG, Capacity providers, target groups), Linux support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 217 days after the earliest competitor.
- Electros · ph · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- GitHub · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Wraps · hn · 2026-01-22 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Building a Cloud Native Kubernetes Java Client · hn · 2025-10-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Ec · hn · 2026-02-04 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Hardened OpenClaw on AWS with Terraform · hn · 2026-03-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SeaGit · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- CloudSynth · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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