Go CLI for website health checks, zero dependencies
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A small CLI that runs the checks you'd normally do manually: DNS, HTTPS, SSL expiry, redirects, response time, email records, domain expiry, and more. Zero dependencies, JSON output, install via Homebrew.
HN · launched Aug 18, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 34%) · 0 views
Niche: web and application performance monitoring tools · 66 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 66 launches in web and application performance monitoring tools →
Could you build this?
Yes Go's standard library provides built-in `net`, `crypto/tls`, and `net/http` packages capable of performing all these checks without external dependencies in a few hundred lines of code.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: SSL expiry visibility for short certificate lifetimes
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 176 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #61 of 177 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 282 days after the earliest competitor.
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- dnsdon · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Clide · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Oauthcli · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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