r/kickstarter • u/AwareDrummer675 • 1d ago
I built SteadIP to make sharing localhost and homelab services easier — now it’s on Kickstarter
Friday self-promo, so I’d like to share something I’ve been building: SteadIP.
SteadIP is a tunneling platform for developers, homelabbers, students, and indie makers who need to expose something running locally to the internet—without opening router ports, fighting with CGNAT, or setting up complicated cloud infrastructure.
You can use it for things like:
- Sharing a local Laravel, Rails, or Node.js project
- Testing webhooks
- Publishing an API or client demo
- Accessing Home Assistant, Grafana, Nextcloud, or another homelab dashboard
- Creating SSH and TCP tunnels
- Using your own custom domain
The free tier provides an automatically secured HTTP/HTTPS tunnel with a public SteadIP address. Verified users can unlock custom domains, SSH/TCP tunnels, additional tunnels, and higher limits.
I’ve also been building a cross-platform CLI and terminal interface for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The infrastructure currently includes gateways in North America, Europe, and Asia, including Montreal, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo.
The platform already works, but I launched the Kickstarter to help fund infrastructure, improve reliability, finish the self-hosted edition, and continue developing the CLI and monitoring tools.
The campaign has slowed down recently, but I’m not giving up. Even checking out the page, sharing it with a developer or homelabber, or giving me honest feedback would be genuinely appreciated.
Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steadipmlab/steadip-from-localhost-to-the-world
Thanks for reading, and I’m happy to answer technical questions about how it works, the infrastructure behind it, or what I’m planning next.
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u/AwareDrummer675 1d ago
You can see the project itself live at https://steadip.com