Malai
Infrastructure
peer-to-peer tunneling
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9points
6comments
#3,107of 3,837 in 2025
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How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Simple, open alternative to Pinggy and ngrok
From 2 comments
So this is like a privater peer to peer version of https://pinggy.io ? Looks great. Although pinggy has option to whitelist ip or use an api key for authenticated access. This is…
ghoshbishakh on HNLooks pretty neat! I love the use of 'malai' and 'kulfi' as project names. I have used ngrok, how is this different/better?
ranedk on HN
Requests
Access control and IP whitelisting
From 1 comment
So this is like a privater peer to peer version of https://pinggy.io ? Looks great. Although pinggy has option to whitelist ip or use an api key for authenticated access. This is…
ghoshbishakh on HN
Questions
How is this different from ngrok?
From 1 comment
Looks pretty neat! I love the use of 'malai' and 'kulfi' as project names. I have used ngrok, how is this different/better?
ranedk on HN
Why does this need to be peer-to-peer?
From 1 comment
Looks interesting. May be I can use this to share my vibe-coded projects. Why does this need to be P2P?
rahulg on HN
Alternatives named
Pinggy
From 1 comment
So this is like a privater peer to peer version of https://pinggy.io ? Looks great. Although pinggy has option to whitelist ip or use an api key for authenticated access. This is…
ghoshbishakh on HN
ngrok
From 1 comment
Looks pretty neat! I love the use of 'malai' and 'kulfi' as project names. I have used ngrok, how is this different/better?
ranedk on HN
WireGuard
From 1 comment
So this is like a privater peer to peer version of https://pinggy.io ? Looks great. Although pinggy has option to whitelist ip or use an api key for authenticated access. This is…
ghoshbishakh on HN