Whalewall
MacOS Network Monitor & Firewall powered by AI
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Whalewall is a native macOS firewall and network monitor. See which apps connect where on a live world map, block unwanted connections by app, domain, or country, and choose when new connections need your approval.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Privacy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security
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Could you build this?
Partial The live world map, rules UI and connection log are vibe-codeable, but a real firewall needs a macOS Network Extension, Apple entitlements, notarization and per-app traffic attribution. Those are systems-level pieces that AI-assisted coding alone won't reliably deliver.
What it would actually take: Build a Swift app with a Network Extension (NEFilterDataProvider or content filter) and a system extension for packet and flow interception, plus a SwiftUI/MapKit frontend. The hard parts are obtaining Apple's network-extension entitlements, mapping flows to processes securely, and not breaking users' connectivity. This needs a developer with macOS kernel-adjacent networking experience and a GeoIP database such as MaxMind.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 162 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #91 of 163 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 375 days after the earliest competitor.
- py-firewall-network-monitor · github · 2026-10-22 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- NetBlocker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- RabbitWall · github · 2026-10-28 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- firewalla-mcp · github · 2026-10-29 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Veil · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FlowSense · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Furwall · hn · 2026-05-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Bedrock Guardrail Firewall · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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