networking, privacy, and security utilities
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(2026-04-28 → 2026-10-05), compared with the prior
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horizontal · 227 members ·
Data as of 2026-10-08
These products provide specialized tools for network management, device access, data privacy, and security audits. They are primarily built for developers, system administrators, and privacy-focused technologists seeking granular control over their digital infrastructure. The cluster stands out for its emphasis on self-hosted architectures, peer-to-peer protocols, and local-first data protection rather than centralized SaaS.
Metrics
- Stage
- crowded
- Recent count
- 173
- Prior count
- 31
- Total count
- 227
- Momentum
- 300.00
- Attention
- 0.49
- Crowding
- 0.82
- Concentration
- 0.82
- Opportunity
- 0.46
Opportunity components
- Attention
- 0.49
- Low crowding
- 0.18
- Momentum (normalized)
- 1.00
- Low concentration
- 0.18
Source split
- github
- 99 (0.57)
- hn
- 62 (0.36)
- ph
- 7 (0.04)
- yc
- 5 (0.03)
Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.54
Members
|
Name
|
Source
|
Upvotes ▲
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Launched
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| Trellus: Embedded dialing, Salesfloor, and live coaching at half the price of Nooks |
YC |
1 |
2026-08-31 |
| Loom |
PH |
1 |
2026-09-13 |
| PMC |
PH |
1 |
2026-10-02 |
| Ace ID |
PH |
1 |
2026-09-15 |
| Military Data Encryptor |
PH |
1 |
2026-10-01 |
| Clops SSH |
PH |
2 |
2026-09-11 |
| Cypher |
PH |
2 |
2026-09-07 |
| RelayCloud |
PH |
2 |
2026-09-26 |
| Trellus: Parallel or Power Dial on any Platform + 50% cheaper than Nooks/Orum |
YC |
3 |
2026-05-26 |
| Password-less authentication via Ramanujan's 1/π series and Nvidia-B200 |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-07 |
| A satellite control room from 100% open data, self-hosted in Europe |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-23 |
| How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-12 |
| Bench on Your Network |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-16 |
| EchoRelay |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-30 |
| CardGo |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-30 |
| An elegant HN client with built-in translation |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-23 |
| PgNimbus 1.0, an open-source PostgreSQL client that sends no telemetry |
HN |
5 |
2026-10-07 |
| Show HN : Dally |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-15 |
| Ovlt |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-09 |
| File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-07 |
| Nat-zero |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-28 |
| Wisp. A peer-to-peer encrypted messenger with no trusted server |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-29 |
| RocketShare |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-25 |
| Skouriasmeno Papaki |
HN |
5 |
2025-12-16 |
| Tlx |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-25 |
| I built an encrypted BLE dongle for pasting stuff to air-gapped devices |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-04 |
| Total Reciprocity Public License |
HN |
5 |
2025-11-28 |
| Lightweight C++23 S3 client with no extra deps (just curl and OpenSSL) |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-13 |
| HetGuard |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-04 |
| Gonzales |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-26 |
| Cloudflarebase |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-28 |
| Secryn |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-28 |
| Data center development is broken. We fix that. |
YC |
5 |
2026-09-04 |
| On-device Chrome extension that blocks credential leaks to LLM chats |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-03 |
| UltraLocked |
HN |
6 |
2025-11-17 |
| Age-PHP: a PHP implementation of age encryption (post-quantum) |
HN |
6 |
2026-04-11 |
| Gopher |
HN |
6 |
2026-09-02 |
| SyncBank |
HN |
6 |
2026-05-11 |
| Nullsec |
HN |
6 |
2026-09-17 |
| Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, Amplemarket, Salesforce, Google Sheets and more |
YC |
6 |
2026-04-21 |
| Pure PHP server, from yesterday, now supports sockets and rooms. |
HN |
6 |
2026-07-21 |
| cf-workers-lb |
GITHUB |
6 |
2026-09-15 |
| Freenet Lives |
HN |
6 |
2026-02-08 |
| Selvum |
HN |
7 |
2026-08-17 |
| Qevoryx |
GITHUB |
7 |
2026-09-12 |
| Family sync with no server |
HN |
7 |
2026-08-26 |
| Open-source code for a private, infinitely scalable, PQ-secure L1 layer |
HN |
7 |
2026-02-01 |
| HyCanvas, a free self-hostable Canva alternative |
HN |
7 |
2026-07-21 |
| We built a way for web apps to message users' phones without SMS |
HN |
7 |
2026-09-29 |
| Privacy-First Pdf Converter |
HN |
7 |
2026-05-04 |