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networking and system administration utilities

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-04-30 → 2026-10-10), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

security · 294 members · Data as of 2026-10-13

These products provide low-level networking tools, proxy managers, remote access clients, and desktop system administration utilities. They are primarily used by network engineers, system administrators, and technical power users seeking granular control over connectivity and device configuration. Unlike high-level cloud management platforms, this cluster focuses on client daemons, protocol implementations, and local system utilities.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
234
Prior count
53
Total count
294
Momentum
300.00
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Attention
0.45
Crowding
0.93
Low crowding
0.07
Concentration
0.83
Low concentration
0.17
Opportunity
0.42

Source split

github
156 (0.67)
hn
64 (0.27)
ph
11 (0.05)
yc
3 (0.01)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.65

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
SINHRON PH 1 2026-10-12
tcr (teamclaude-rs) PH 1 2026-09-06
Just Dashboard PH 1 2026-10-05
LemonSees PH 1 2026-09-30
Archon PH 1 2026-09-13
EZWeb · Control server PH 1 2026-09-18
Guile PH 1 2026-09-17
DeskVNC Remote for AI Agents and Humans PH 1 2026-09-15
Narwhal Cloud PH 1 2026-09-07
Peren PH 2 2026-10-01
RelayCloud PH 2 2026-09-26
Mouse Without Borders for Linux (Go Client for the PowerToys Protocol) HN 5 2026-07-07
Turn your Google accounts into a free, load-balanced LLM API gateway HN 5 2026-05-27
Nat-zero HN 5 2026-04-28
PgNimbus 1.0, an open-source PostgreSQL client that sends no telemetry HN 5 2026-10-07
Ovlt HN 5 2026-05-09
Nat traversal using ICMP Destination Unreachable packets HN 5 2026-07-01
Wevna HN 5 2026-08-14
A benchmark comparison of C++ vs. Node.js performance HN 5 2026-09-25
How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud HN 5 2026-05-12
Lightweight C++23 S3 client with no extra deps (just curl and OpenSSL) HN 5 2026-06-13
Bench on Your Network HN 5 2026-08-16
Secryn HN 5 2026-02-28
Pay.sh HN 5 2026-05-06
Ctxfw HN 5 2026-09-29
A satellite control room from 100% open data, self-hosted in Europe HN 5 2026-07-23
Ts-bridge, tsserver lsp shim with daemon for Neovim HN 5 2026-01-01
Real-Time, Streaming SQL Queries on Flight Data HN 5 2026-04-13
Nitrum HN 5 2026-04-26
An elegant HN client with built-in translation HN 5 2026-04-23
Rust HTTP library modeled after Go but 2-3x faster HN 5 2026-04-04
I built an open-source AWS FinOps auditor using Pandas HN 5 2026-10-09
File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies HN 5 2026-08-07
axil HN 5 2026-03-30
Bb HN 5 2026-04-05
Linubot HN 5 2026-09-08
Portcullis, a review gate for curl|bash HN 5 2026-04-02
Running Debian on the OpenWrt One HN 5 2026-02-20
Landing page demos that run the real app in a microVM per visitor HN 5 2026-08-13
Oauthcli HN 5 2026-09-13
Dis: Dev environments but without Node.js HN 5 2026-04-08
I built a self-hosted Fly.io engine using Go and Firecracker HN 5 2026-03-31
Poolnarc HN 5 2026-06-01
OWASP VulnerableApp Modern Extensible and Scalable vulnerable app HN 6 2026-06-05
cf-workers-lb GITHUB 6 2026-09-15
LightTwist - Record and stream in a realistic virtual studio, even if your guests and co-hosts are remote YC 6 2026-06-30
Xcover, test coverage without instrumentation, using eBPF HN 6 2026-07-08
Simulate API traffic directly from your IDE with .http files HN 6 2026-07-02
Radar HN 6 2026-02-04
42SessionGuard GITHUB 6 2026-09-12