Comment by anderspitman
3 years ago
I think tunneling is going to be the core of the real web3 over the next 10 years, and my current primary side project is banking on it.
Imagine if you could take an old Android phone, install a Nextcloud app, do a quick OAuth2 flow to set up a tunnel, and now you have 100GB of cloud storage, sync, calendar, etc all running from a desk drawer.
Port forwarding is too hard. DNS is too hard. IPv6 is going to take another 10-100 years and people will still have to figure out how to manage firewalls.
IMO web3 is going to come by lowering the barrier of entry to self-hosting.
I actually am familiar with takingnames.io and boring proxy! I found it the other day when I was searching for the easiest way to self-host my own side project. I think you've got something promising and I encourage you to keep working on it. Ultimately, for my use case I went with fly.io just because it was so damn easy to use.
I am hesitant to commit to a tunnel-based approach because where I live I get frequent power/internet outages. I feel that tunneling is something I would explore if my application grows to the point where I would need to rent space in a colocation.
Right on. fly.io is awesome.
I don't think tunneling is necessarily a great for hosting large-scale things or businesses that need to stay online 24/7. Self-hosted services for friends and family or maybe small communities seems like the best use case.
It's annoying but ok if your media server goes down once in a while.