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Shares rank 5 of 7 tunneling services by recommenders

People recommend sish for exposing local development servers over the network through SSH, with automatic TLS. Critics raise no recurring complaints in these quotes.

People recommend sish for exposing local development servers over the network through SSH, with automatic TLS. Critics raise no recurring complaints in these quotes.

6 people gave an opinion

recommend it
6
criticize it
0
approval share
100%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 3 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: recommended
  3. January 2026: recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: not recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: not recommended
  12. October 2026: recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
  • Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
  • Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.

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What people say about it

The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.

Why people recommend it

Each mark is one comment

  • Exposes dev services over the network

    “I've been using sish for the past month or so to expose my dev severs over the network”

    Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”

    “we used it extensively at my previous company for engineers to integrate with others”

    Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”

Other tunneling services people recommend

The four most recommended other tunneling services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.

sish compared with 4 alternatives
ProductRecommendCriticizeApprovalMonthsOwnedBadge
Cloudflare Quick Tunnels292653%1——
ngrok191458%11——
Tunnl.gg12475%2——
BitBang10191%3——
sishThis page60100%3——
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What people said

5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“I've been using sish for the past month or so to expose my dev severs over the network”

RecommendsComment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”

“we used it extensively at my previous company for engineers to integrate with others”

RecommendsComment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”

“sish or ngrok might be a better solution for the general case”

RecommendsComment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”

“You get all of the benefits of SSH, but also automatic TLS”

RecommendsComment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”

“which is a managed sish instance”

MixedComment from 19 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.