Netlink
Know the moment your Mac's exit IP changes
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Netlink lives in your Mac's menu bar, watches your exit IP and tells you the moment it changes. One click checks your VPN, proxy, DNS and time zone across eight stages and sums it up in one clear score, with a fix for every deduction.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Privacy
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu-bar app that polls the public IP, checks VPN, DNS, and timezone, and displays a score is a straightforward Swift/AppKit project using standard system APIs and network calls.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 337 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 338 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
- NetTop · ph · 2026-11-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Konechi · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Snitch · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network · hn · 2026-09-15 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- NetworkMonitor · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- 1ms.dog · github · 2026-10-31 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- What Happened · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- NetSpeed · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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