Sish
Exposing a local development server to the internet, for demoing work in progress or receiving webhooks behind NAT, usually means routing through a third-party tunnel service such as ngrok, with its own account requirements and usage limits. sish is a self-hostable alternative that provides HTTP(S), WebSocket, and TCP tunnels to localhost using only SSH, so the tunnel infrastructure itself runs under the operator's own control rather than a vendor's.
As of August 2026 the sish repository has 4,691 stars and 23 open issues.
This is placed in Assess. It solves a common development-workflow problem, exposing a local server publicly, without introducing dependency on an external tunnel vendor, and requires only SSH on the client side. There is no first-person production use yet, which is the gate for Trial. Worth trying the next time a local server needs to be reachable externally, such as testing an inbound webhook.
