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Sonic
Transparent L7 proxy, eBPF-accelerated,
Sonic is a Multi-Language, Multi-Protocol Edge Engine — a platform for running logic over ANY network data! JavaScript (Goja), WebAssembly (Rust/Go/C), Native (coming soon). HTTP, TCP, UDP, DNS, WebSocket, gRPC, QUIC. Persistent KV Store for all workers. eBPF-accelerated, Cloudflare Workers API compatible, self-hosted, no vendor lock-in!
Looking at the Sonic repo, here's what I can piece together from the README and project structure to answer those three questions. Since the actual personal story is something only you know, treat this as a technical-motivation draft you can layer your real backstory onto.
What inspired it: The README frames Sonic explicitly against Cloudflare Workers — same "intercept and edit traffic with JS" developer experience, but without the vendor lock-in. The likely spark was wanting that edge-compute pattern on infrastructure you actually own (a VPS, a Raspberry Pi, bare metal) rather than renting it from a cloud provider, and using Linux's eBPF to do the packet-level work at near-kernel speed instead of leaning on a third-party edge network.
The problem it solves: Running and modifying HTTPS traffic live, on your own server, without touching DNS and without changing the client or the origin server. Sonic acts as a transparent proxy that terminates TLS via its own MITM layer, then hands the request/response to a JS function (the worker model) before re-encrypting and forwarding it on. Because the worker API mirrors Cloudflare's, existing Workers code can mostly drop in unchanged. The eBPF Sockmap layer exists so that interception doesn't become a performance tax, and there's no cold-start penalty since it's an always-on Go process rather than a serverless invocation.
About Sonic on Product Hunt
“Transparent L7 proxy, eBPF-accelerated,”
Sonic was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #127 on the daily leaderboard. Sonic is a Multi-Language, Multi-Protocol Edge Engine — a platform for running logic over ANY network data! JavaScript (Goja), WebAssembly (Rust/Go/C), Native (coming soon). HTTP, TCP, UDP, DNS, WebSocket, gRPC, QUIC. Persistent KV Store for all workers. eBPF-accelerated, Cloudflare Workers API compatible, self-hosted, no vendor lock-in!
On the analytics side, Sonic competes within Open Source, Software Engineering and GitHub — topics that collectively have 152.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Sonic performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Sonic?
Sonic was hunted by Manassés Binga. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Sonic including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Manassés Binga