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Connet.dev – high performance reverse proxy to connect devices privately

by Ingon on 5/2/25, 12:48 PM with 14 comments

• by andrewfromx on 5/2/25, 12:54 PM

  I like it. Here's how I see the marketplace:

  Quick demonstrations & development: ngrok

  Low-resource environments (IoT, embedded): rathole

  Privacy-focused deployments: connet

  Production with active community: FRP

  Self-hosting with direct connections: connet

  https://gist.github.com/andrewarrow/d0e41dd954485a8574b9ea74...

• by sylens on 5/2/25, 1:08 PM

  Interestingly I just did this with my own reverse proxy recently; nginx proxy manager in a container running on the network of a Tailscale container on the same host, connected to a Tailscale exit node on internal network. Will take a look at whether this is better.

• by vimredo on 5/4/25, 4:11 AM

  This reminds me a bit about gsocket[1], except that it seems slightly more configurable and not just intended to be a backdoor.

  [1]: https://gsocket.io/

• by Ingon on 5/2/25, 12:48 PM

  Hi All,

  This is a hosted version of connet[1]. In addition, it allows users to expose their endpoints directly on the internet (optional and still in progress)

  [1] https://github.com/connet-dev/connet