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BurrowGate

Self-hosted reverse proxy and access gateway

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BurrowGate sits between the internet and your servers. It terminates TLS, routes traffic, blocks bots and scrapers, adds browser challenges and logins with 2FA, and shows every request on a live dashboard. Open source, one Docker container, no account needed.

PH · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views

Niche: api gateway software · 10 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub
  • Security

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Could you build this?

Partial While basic proxying and routing in Bun are simple to assemble, production-grade reverse proxying with custom WAF rules, real-time ACME TLS automation, bot challenge execution, and robust network security requires careful systems engineering.

What it would actually take: A real version requires Bun or Go handling raw TCP/TLS connections, integration with Let's Encrypt via ACME client protocols, an in-memory or Redis-backed sliding-window rate limiter, and a JS challenge/fingerprinting engine. The hard parts are edge-case HTTP/WebSocket proxy buffering, high-throughput memory efficiency under bot floods, and accurate IP/ASN/Bot heuristic classification.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 251 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #17 of 252 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.

  • MorphGate · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • proxy-tunnel · github · 2026-11-01 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • proxy-benchmark · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • ghostline · github · 2026-10-04 · 89 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • ProxyCroxy · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • SentinelGateway · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Server Config Generator · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • RabbitWall · github · 2026-10-28 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.43

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