Hey Product Hunt community, I'm Joel, creator of Breakdown. After 20 years of "Is it the Network?", I built Breakdown to get instant answers in my Mac menubar. No more being on a choppy video call and wondering if it’s my Wi-Fi, my ISP, or Zoom . No more running traceroute or MTR and being frustrated by an intermittent issue that’s already resolved. Breakdown is built for everyone from your average computer user to network engineers. It's free for standard use (with a Pro upgrade for geeks like me who want maximum observability). Before I started building Breakdown 8 months ago, I looked at the market landscape for a solution. Other offerings are either: • Not lightweight • Don’t adapt to the apps you use, or • Require lots of manual diagnosis I wanted something that: • I can keep always-on without impacting my laptop battery • Doesn’t rely on hard-coded monitoring targets, and • Can quickly tell me where outages are along the network path. Breakdown solves those problems. It: • Uses less than 1% of CPU on a typical Mac • Constantly detects and monitors the apps you're using in real-time • Tells you exactly where issues are happening. That means if you're on a Zoom call it will be monitoring and segmenting your LAN, the Zoom server you're connecting to, and the Internet path in between, all without you doing anything. Once a problem is detected, you can then dive in at whatever level you prefer. With a couple of clicks you can get a detailed AI breakdown of the issue, and a PDF evidence report to send to support. For experts, Pro mode is like having a full network observability platform built in to your Mac. 🤑 I made a special crazy 70% Pro discount for the Product Hunt community! Buy Pro before the end of August using coupon code PRODUCTHUNT70 and you get 70% off of Pro for 12 months. If you’re using an AI agent like Codex, Claude, or Hermes, you can also use Breakdown’s built-in MCP server to troubleshoot your network and apps. For example, you can ask Codex to use Breakdown to figure out why your Internet has seemed slow, and Breakdown will provide all the historical data that Codex needs to do that.

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Breakdown Launch

Hey community, thanks for being here. I'm excited to launch Breakdown on Product Hunt. I'd love feedback. I know the UI can be overwhelming to non-technical folks, but my hope is the Breakdown view provides an intuitive easy mode. What do you think, is it intuitive and simple to use?

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