Inlets
Infrastructure
tunneling
SHOW HN2021
33points
10comments
#1,091of 2,533 in 2021
Top 44%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Privacy: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Extremely useful software
From 1 comment
Congrats on this - I’ve been meaning to try it for a while. Extremely useful piece of software
jarym on HN
Objections
OSS edition has no built-in encryption; TLS requires PRO or a reverse proxy
From 3 comments
“If you need encryption upgrade to PRO plan for $$$” is appalling.
iampims on HNI dont fully understand the context here. They wont give you an encrypted tunnel unless you're paying for PRO? If true, This defeats the entire point of this tool imho and I will…
sigmonsays on HNit's so easy to build encryption into inlets oss. and the license is really really friendly to do so. if you really want to use it pay the author or do it yourself.
merb on HN
Paid tier pricing seen as too high for a basic feature
From 2 comments
“If you need encryption upgrade to PRO plan for $$$” is appalling.
iampims on HNI dont fully understand the context here. They wont give you an encrypted tunnel unless you're paying for PRO? If true, This defeats the entire point of this tool imho and I will…
sigmonsays on HN
Requests
Built-in encryption in the OSS edition
From 2 comments
it's so easy to build encryption into inlets oss. and the license is really really friendly to do so. if you really want to use it pay the author or do it yourself.
merb on HNI dont fully understand the context here. They wont give you an encrypted tunnel unless you're paying for PRO? If true, This defeats the entire point of this tool imho and I will…
sigmonsays on HN
Questions
Whether encryption is gated behind PRO
From 1 comment
I dont fully understand the context here. They wont give you an encrypted tunnel unless you're paying for PRO? If true, This defeats the entire point of this tool imho and I will…
sigmonsays on HN
Alternatives named
ngrok
From 1 comment
Friendly reminder that Inlets != ngrok[0], if you can afford to pay for Inlets Pro please do so, the author also uses those resources to keep the lights on, contributing to other…
bithavoc on HN
SSH forwarding
From 1 comment
> if you can afford to pay for Inlets Pro please do so LOL. This is just a SSH forwarding. :-) I suggest you rather pay https://devnull-as-a-service.com/.
inshadows on HN