boringproxy VS Lunar

Compare boringproxy vs Lunar and see what are their differences.

boringproxy

Simple tunneling reverse proxy with a fast web UI and auto HTTPS. Designed for self-hosters. (by boringproxy)
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boringproxy Lunar
10 194
1,252 4,872
0.9% 2.0%
0.0 8.2
7 months ago about 1 month ago
Go Swift
MIT License MIT License
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boringproxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of boringproxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-30.
  • List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
    61 projects | dev.to | 30 Apr 2024
    boringproxy - Designed to be very easy to use. No config files. Clients can be remote-controlled through a simple WebUI and/or REST API on the server.
  • Ask HN: Remote access to self hosted (back end) software
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2023
    A couple of years ago I've read about this concept (already forgot the name) of using self hosted data storage with cloud applications. Basically, you as a user own your data and only permit the cloud hosted web application to access it - not own it and manage in your place.

    I was thinking of a similar concept, but in the context of mobile applications. The mobile application itself would be accessible via Google Play Store/App Store, but the backend part would be self hosted and upon opening the application you would have to specify how to access backend.

    My question is how would I access the backend if it was hosted on let's say rpi running in the living room? It's not a problem as long as I'm within the home network, but I want seemless network transition without losing access when entering/leaving the house. I was told https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/zero-trust/access/ could be used for this, but to me it sounds a bit of an overkill to use it for an application which would never be used by more than a single digit amount of users. This looks more suitable: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy

  • Replacing cloudflare with a VPS - My journey
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 May 2023
    Finally, someone in the above project's Matrix room directed me towards boringproxy - https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy. This was the perfect solution. No lengthy config files, easy to use and automate. Setup took about an hour and now everything is back up and running. The only issue I've currently not been able to solve is one where the container seems to use a websocket, which keeps getting timed out (will investigate this further tomorrow).
  • zrok: open-source peer-to-peer sharing (alternative to ngrok)
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 8 Mar 2023
    boringproxy (GitHub) is my go-to for this sort of thing. Thanks for the announcement, I'll have to do a head-to-head and see how they stack up!
  • What's the best way to host Jellyfin to be accessed outside of my home network?
    1 project | /r/jellyfin | 24 Jul 2022
    boringproxy
  • Consider SQLite
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2021
    Am I the only one who thinks SQLite is still too complicated for many programs? Maybe it's just the particular type of software I normally work on, which tends towards small, self-hosted networking services[0] that would often have a single user, or maybe federated with <100 users. These programs need a small amount of state for things like tokens, users accounts, and maybe a bit of domain-specific things. This can all live in memory, but needs to be persisted to disk on writes. I've reached for SQLite several times, and always come back to just keeping a struct of hashmaps[1] in memory and dumping JSON to disk. It's worked great for my needs.

    Now obviously if I wanted to scale up, at some point you would have too many users to fit in memory. But do programs at that scale actually need to exist? Why can't everyone be on a federated server with state that fits in memory/JSON? I guess that's more of a philosophical question about big tech. But I think it's interesting that most of our tech stack choices are driven by projects designed to work at a scale most of us will never need, and maybe nobody needs.

    [0]: https://boringproxy.io/

    [1]: https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy/blob/master/datab...

  • Architecture issue with running a docker project - have a crack at this
    2 projects | /r/docker | 31 Mar 2021
    This is the commit that seems to have broken the docker image.
  • Problems with port forwarding
    1 project | /r/PFSENSE | 12 Feb 2021
  • How does pricing work for making and maintaining a website?
    1 project | /r/softwaredevelopment | 16 Jan 2021
    I use https://github.com/boringproxy/boringproxy

Lunar

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lunar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-11-26.
  • Git-crypt – transparent file encryption in Git
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2024
    I believe git-secret[0] does what you describe. The author of Lunar[1] uses it to hide the private elements in a public repo.

    [0]: https://sobolevn.me/git-secret/

    [1]: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/

  • Sourcegraph Went Dark
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2024
    Damn, I use Sourcegraph so much for my reverse engineering efforts on macOS. They index all those private framework symbols that people extract on every macOS release, and allow searching for headers and even how they are called by other developers that were ahead of me.

    A big part of https://lunar.fyi exists thanks to Sourcegraph search. Even now I'm using it to find a way to enable the second monitor on M3 MacBooks without needing to close the lid [1].

    I really hope this is not a sign of them taking back the ability to search in the future.

    [1] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/turn-off-macbook-display-clams...

  • Reverse Engineering a Software Crack
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    It’s done in a similar way on macOS: a dylib is added to the bundle and an LC_LOAD command is added to the app binary. The dylib is the first thing that runs because of using the constructor attribute, like this: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Injecting%20a%20DYLIB%20into%...

    The nice thing is that a signed app will refuse to load a dylib that does not have the same signature. So crackers will be forced to change the whole app signature which can be easily detected in app code.

    I have that kind of protection in Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) and Clop (https://lowtechguys.com/clop) and it seems to be good enough as they have no recent cracks.

  • No I don't want 2, Emacs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
    Pretty sure Lunar [0] can do this for you, and you can buy a lifetime license.

    [0]: https://lunar.fyi/

  • Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2024
    I've had good luck with the Lunar app - it manages my Dell and LG monitors on an M2. (No affiliation) https://lunar.fyi
  • PHOLED Will Transform Displays
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2023
    Wild! I am working on exactly the same thing now for Lunar (https://lunar.fyi), and I'm also calling it Night Mode ^_^ what a coincidence

    I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less painful for months, but doing that at the system level on macOS is incredibly hard. I see you're doing it with CSS filters, which make sense in the limited scope of an article. But applying something like that on the whole macOS UI would cause confusion.

    I already use something similar on the iPhone: I read on the Kindle app which has white text on black background, then I have a full red Color Tint filter on the Triple Back Tap shortcut which I use before reading. Very similar effect to your solution, although I don't have images in my books.

  • If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    I was comparing anti-piracy measures with DRM, I don't have actual DRM in my app. I can't block users that really bought the app from using it (which is what DRM is notorious for).

    But I do have a license verification for the Pro features (https://lunar.fyi/#pro), and that is what people are cracking in the app. I only added more protection around this verification.

  • MacOS tools to make your life easier
    14 projects | /r/MacOS | 7 Dec 2023
    Lunar
  • Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023
    There's no Reduce White Point on Mac as far as I am aware. However, you can use the fantastic Lunar [0] app to achieve this, as it supports "Sub-Zero Dimming".

    To use it, I think you just need to start Lunar, and then press the Reduce Brightness button on your keyboard until it goes below the minimum Mac allows.

    [0] https://lunar.fyi

  • YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2023
    As the dev of a macOS app that breaks all the time because of external hardware, the tone of the article hits close to home. (I’m talking about https://lunar.fyi/ whose brightness control commands can be blocked by USB-C hubs, “smart” monitors, too long cables etc.)

    I had to disable public GitHub issues on the app repo [1] because people seemed to fuel each other with spiteful comments and “why can’t you just!!” sentences.

    The contact form still attracts many such “entitled” people and it hurts to wake up to such messages, but at least I can choose to ignore those if I can’t bring anything to the discussion. There’s no peer pressure.

    These people are expecting too much from a handful of developers who are sharing a lot of free work and time that could have been spent better than hunting new IDs in URLs and updating regular expressions.

    [1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar

What are some alternatives?

When comparing boringproxy and Lunar you can also consider the following projects:

selfhosted-gateway - Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet via a simple docker compose interface.

BetterDisplay - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!

dqlite - Embeddable, replicated and fault-tolerant SQL engine.

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

ngrok - Expose your localhost to the web. Node wrapper for ngrok.

Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease

timeliner - All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locally -- DEPRECATED, SEE TIMELINIZE (link below)

BetterDummy - Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay]

Gravitational Teleport - The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.

RatPoison - Latest Ver: 1.7; Default Menu Key is F1; Charlatano's Successor; dn

rqlite - The lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database built on SQLite.

Clop - Clipboard optimizer for macOS

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Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
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