Show HN: I made a tool to HTTPS your localhost

  • Congratulations on the launch! How does the remote -> local tunneling work? The docs you linked are a little unclear to me.

    How does this differ from something like Localcan, which seems to offer the same features? https://www.localcan.com/

    For what it's worth, I'll mention that I have an open-source application, Localias [0], that does the same local https development + mDNS support for HTTP/TCP/UDP traffic. Localias doesn't support traffic inspection or remote -> local tunneling, but it's open source, built on caddy, and works on mac/linux/wsl2. It's a statically built binary and you can share your configs with your whole dev team in your git repo.

    [0] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

  • Why not just self sign a local cert? Its really easy to do (ask an AI for a relevant example in your language of choice)

  • This product seems similar to Ngrok and some other solutions. How does this product differentiate itself from everyone else?

  • Shouldn't the watchtower docker config be configured to only monitor and update the lokal-server container and not every container on the host?

    WATCHTOWER_LABEL_ENABLE env set to true on watchtower

    com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable label set to true on lokal-server

  • You lost me at "AI assistant help".

  • Congratulations! We all know how difficult it is to launch a working product. Looks like you are trying something similar to what we do at https://pinggy.io/

    LAN-Wide Accessible .local address looks like a super useful feature!

  • Won't this break Bonjour/Zeroconf .local announcements from hosts? Should you be using .local at all?

  • Looks good.

    I've been using Cloudflare's thing ("tunnel", I think) for the basic functionality, but I see this does additional things. If I ever want to do those things (or I just decide I want to try something different) I'll keep this in mind.

  • What all can the "AI Assistant" do?

  • Intriguing, but I think VS Code's built in GitHub tunneling support is enough for me.

  • The page is blank for me. Fennec on android

  • Too. many. features

  • Great video!

  • congrats on the launch!

  • After looking at your web page and your HN post for 1 minute each, I have no clue what your software is doig, where it is running, whether it is open source, how much a subscription costs etc.

    It's also confusing to me that the title says HTTPS, the post says HTTP.

    The use of HTTPS in the HN post title as a verb makes it incomprehensible for me. Are you planning an HTTPS-basef network attack on the computers of all HN users? Probably not. But then why do you suggest it in the title? Why not write a title which is easy to understand, using common verbs?

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