HackerEyes
A consumer-facing 'what can an attacker see about me right now' tool that translates scary security scans into plain-English stories parents and home users can act on.
Parents and home users worried about smart home, family devices, and home network exposure
- Paste a home IP or scan your Wi-Fi and get a plain-English 'attacker story' of what they could see in 5 minutes
- Smart-device inventory with one-tap 'lock this down' fixes ranked by actual risk
- Weekly digest for the family Slack/GroupMe: 'Your front-door camera still uses the default password'
- Kid-account exposure check that flags if a teen's gaming or social account appears in recent breach dumps
With smart-home devices multiplying and a constant drumbeat of breach news, non-technical households feel exposed but can't read a Nmap scan; trending security tools on Product Hunt prove the appetite.
Bitdefender's 2025 IoT report covers 6.1M smart homes, 58M devices, 13.6B attacks — strong underlying anxiety, but it's largely already served by incumbents.The 2025 IoT Security Landscape Report ↗SentinelHome101 — Home Network Security Audit for Windows ↗
Bitdefender Home Scanner already explicitly markets 'plain English' Wi-Fi scans and powers NETGEAR Armor across millions of homes; SentinelHome101 and HomeNetworkCheckup compete directly for the same audience.Bitdefender Home Scanner ↗Network Checkup | Free Family Protection Scanner ↗
Consumers pay $30–100/yr for antivirus suites that already include network scanning (Norton 360, Bitdefender total security); standalone 'story' tooling is hard to monetize without bundling into ISP or insurance partnerships.Bitdefender vs. Norton (Comparison) - Forbes Advisor ↗Bitdefender Security Software Solutions for Home Users ↗
Smart-home adoption and IoT attack volume (13.6B/year and rising) are durable multi-year trends; the underlying anxiety will persist even if specific products churn.The 2025 IoT Security Landscape Report ↗
External-attack-surface tooling (e.g. qsa.sh's naabu/nmap/nuclei stack) is open source, but consumerizing it into actionable, non-scary advice plus continuous local-network monitoring requires significant UX work and ongoing vuln-feed curation.qsa.sh - External security scan of your own IP, in your terminal ↗