Alternatives

Products that do what rustunnel does

The open-source tunnel that scales with you

1. 1
   btunnel▲117

   No more localhost, welcome to the internet

   2023

2. 2
   Expose▲126

   Share your local sites via secure tunnels

   2021

3. 3LO
   Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io▲377

   Hey there I made a opensource alternative for these services. Although these worked very well, I was not so confident what they do. So I made my own and opensourced it. It is written in Golang and is fully customizable.

   2023 · github.com

4. 43L
   30ms latency screen sharing in Rust▲353

   2024 · github.com

5. 5IG
   IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs▲363

   Hey all, wanted to share my recent weekend hack project. I wanted to improve upon the existing space for looking up information about IP addresses and ASNs. The backend is written in Rust and pulls BGP data every 8 hours from the RIPE RIS project to build up a routing table and also adds geolocation information. The frontend is using React and Tailwind. Would love any feedback or suggestions on what to improve.

   2023 · ip.guide

6. 6AS
   A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust▲456

   2017 · github.com

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   Expose▲184

   A beautiful, open-source, tunneling service - written in PHP

   2020

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   cotunnel▲133

   Remote access and tunnels to your local device.

   2020

9. 9SO
   SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust▲245

   2024 · github.com

10. 10
    Fleet▲87

    The blazing fast build tool for Rust

    2022

11. 11TD
    Tunnelto.dev – expose localhost with a public URL (built in Rust)▲100

    2020 · tunnelto.dev

12. 12IB
    I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely▲113

    2025 · github.com

13. 13PA
    Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel▲114

    Hey HN! localtunnel's server needs random ports per client. That doesn't work on Fly.io or behind strict firewalls. We rewrote it in TypeScript and added multiplexing over a single port. Open-source and 100% self-hostable. Public instance at *.pipenet.dev if you don't want to self-host. Built at Glama for our MCP Inspector, but it's a generic tunnel with no ties to our infra. https://github.com/punkpeye/pipenet

    Jan 2026 · pipenet.dev

14. 14SA
    Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye▲178

    I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues. The two best things about it are: - It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container - It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.) With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping! Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP/HTTP/HTTPS) Two good things about it: - It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at…

    2025 · dseltzer.gitlab.io

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    Tunll▲97

    Tunnels from public internet to localhost for all developers

    2022

16. 16IB
    I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries▲115

    I built a DNS resolver that lets me use https://frontend.numa instead of localhost:5173 — auto-generated TLS certs, WebSocket passthrough, path routing. No mkcert, no nginx, no /etc/hosts.

    Apr 2026 · github.com

17. 17SO
    Serverless OLAP with Seafowl and GCP▲54

    Hello HN! I'm an engineer at Splitgraph and recently started learning Rust so I could make my first contribution to Seafowl [0], an early stage analytical database. Along the way I figured out a database hosting hack on GCP and wanted to share it with HN. It's a way to achieve "true" scale to zero database hosting that could be useful for certain side projects or spiky traffic situations. A recurring problem I've faced with side projects is the need for Postgres, but no desire to deploy or maintain new instances. So when I learned GCP's "always free" tier includes serverless [1] I got…

    2023 · github.com

18. 18OS
    Open-source serverless security lake powered by Rust + Apache Iceberg▲63

    2022 · github.com

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    tunnel.to▲7

    Public URLs for localhost — outbound only, no firewall edits

    Jun 2026 · tunnel.to

20. 20WI
    Written in Rust – Self hosted and fast GeoIP service with auto updates▲20

    2024 · github.com

21. 21TS
    TiTun – simple secure IP tunnel, using libsodium, written in Rust▲7

    2017 · github.com

22. 22SA
    Spart – A Rust library for fast spatial search with Python bindings▲31

    Hi everyone, I've made an open-source library for fast spatial search in Rust. It's called Spart, and it currently provides the following features: - Five tree implementations: Quadtree, Octree, Kd-tree, R-tree, and R*-tree - Python bindings (`pyspart` on PyPI) - Fast k-nearest neighbor (kNN) and radius search - Bulk data loading for efficient tree construction Project's GitHub repo: https://github.com/habedi/spart

    2025

23. 23NS
    ngrok – secure introspectable tunnels to localhost▲66

    2013 · ngrok.com

24. 24NA
    Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime▲40

    Hi HN, I've been building Nucleus, a lightweight Linux container runtime focused on two workloads: ephemeral AI-agent sandboxes and declarative NixOS services. It's a single Rust binary, no daemon. It is not a Docker replacement and not a strict subset of Docker either. I dropped the entire image-and-distribution half (no Dockerfile, no layers, no registry, no pull/push, no persistent storage layer) in exchange for going deeper on isolation and reproducibility. The rootfs is either a directory copied into tmpfs (agent mode) or a Nix-built closure mounted read-only (production mode). If…

    Jun 2026 · github.com

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