NetSour, the modular packet analyzer TUI
Details
- External ID
- 49455105
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- NetSour, the modular packet analyzer TUI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hey! Built this and would like some feedback
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- modular packet analyzer terminal interface
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While terminal user interface (TUI) frameworks make the UI straightforward, deep packet inspection and cross-platform low-level packet capture at wire speed require systems programming expertise.
What it would actually take: Built with Rust or Go using libpcap/BPF wrappers and TUI libraries like Ratatui or Bubbletea. The hard part is efficient, non-blocking zero-copy packet processing, protocol decoding across multiple networking layers, and managing elevated OS networking privileges safely without dropping frames during traffic spikes.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 966 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #800 of 967 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 299 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Portview · hn · 2026-02-10 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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- Oproxy · hn · 2026-06-07 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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- zeptun · github · 2026-09-16 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Qevoryx · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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