Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
Details
- External ID
- 48947548
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
- Website domain
- honeypotlive.cc
- Launched
- July 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 181
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9581839904420549
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai cybersecurity and penetration testing
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- real-time ssh honeypot visualization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Deploying a low-interaction SSH honeypot (such as Cowrie) and streaming session event logs over WebSockets to a web dashboard is a well-documented project easily vibe-coded.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cowrie, fail2ban, dnsdist, eBPF bans
Concerns raised: RCE vulnerability from terminal escape codes, Honeypot IP disclosure through scanning, Can be evaded by detecting fingerprinting script, Live feed dominated by human test traffic, obscuring real bot patterns, Repetitive persistence attempts overshadow rarer attack chains in UI
Feature requests: Keep honeypot secret and detached from interface, Truncate long values and group events by source, Rate limit noisy sources, Separate human test traffic from automated bot behavior, Surface recurring bot patterns over raw events
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 374 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 375 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 255 days after the earliest competitor.
- genpark-autonomous-honeypot-canary-sentinel-skill · github · 2026-09-26 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Knock-Knock.net · hn · 2026-02-15 · 224 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Live honeypot telemetry · hn · 2026-09-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- A collaborative SSH copilot for on-calls/DevOps/MLOps · hn · 2026-04-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- IsHumanCadence · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- vmup · github · 2026-09-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server · hn · 2026-08-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Watch all the AI agents on your machine · hn · 2026-09-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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