macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards
Details
- External ID
- 49022302
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 45
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8357228195937874
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
is a tiny native macOS menu-bar app for local SSH port forwards. It has no external dependencies and runs natively.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and gaming mods
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- macos menu bar ssh port forward manager
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A menu-bar app managing local SSH port forwarding can easily be generated using standard SwiftUI or native macOS templates executing background SSH subprocesses.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: mosh, autossh, Meerkat (SSH tunnel management)
Concerns raised: Production database access security risk from laptop, Requires server component control (mosh limitation), Unstable internet handling
Feature requests: Connection grouping or folders for multiple environments
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
- portkill · github · 2026-09-25 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- leftopen · github · 2026-09-16 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ellipsis · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Termini · hn · 2026-05-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? · hn · 2026-01-17 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Port Tools · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- PortMon · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- sigstop · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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