WireHub
Infrastructure
wireguard config management
SHOW HN2023
312points
72comments
#138of 3,109 in 2023
Top 5%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
8 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 11 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for business and self-hosted WireGuard setups
From 2 comments
OOh -- this sounds actually potentially awesome for business use-cases. Tailscale is the commercial tool to help setup and manage wireguard networks, and it had a big security…
mushufasa on HNThis looks useful, I'll give it a try when I have the need next time. What are your aspirations for it by the way? Are you looking to monetize it?
ValtteriL on HN
Good balance of convenience and security versus Tailscale
From 2 comments
TLDR: WireHub is a tool that helps you generate WireGuard configurations and easily share those with your end-users - instead of emailing configs around, you can just share a…
rudasn on HNThanks! :) So, WireHub is basically a wireguard config generator. A tool to generate some text files. What you do with those files is up to you. Because getting from text files…
rudasn on HN
Objections
Single-config generator is compared unfavourably with self-hosted or all-in-one tools
From 2 comments
This looks incredibly similar to wg-easy, which I see you have cloned in your github repo as well. Is this simply a SaaS-y frontend to wg-easy, or something different all together?
mdekkers on HNThis looks interesting. I’m currently evaluating my options of just giving in to Tailscale or trying to replicate it with plain Wireguard… or something like you’ve built. One…
karolist on HN
Gitlab single sign-on did not work reliably
From 2 comments
Hi, nice project. The Single Sign On using Gitlab does not work
leonixyz on HNHey, could you please try again? I created a new gitlab app, maybe that was the issue. On my end, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Not getting any errors though which is…
rudasn on HN
No way to remove a network or device yet
From 2 comments
is there no way to remove a network or device for that matter or am i blind?
cchance on HNHehe sorry not yet! :)
rudasn on HN
Requests
Connect networks together
From 1 comment
I'd add a way to connect networks together so you can have devices see each other on the respective networks!
dangoodmanUT on HN
IPv6 support
From 1 comment
Does it support ipv6 private ranges and ipv6 peers?
unixfox on HN
Dynamic node support via API
From 1 comment
great idea to reduce scope and skip "the agent" part and let the users do it, can be added later. When you do, you probably want to introduce some means to query for and update…
flas9sd on HN
Questions
How private keys are handled and whether the site can see them
From 2 comments
OOh -- this sounds actually potentially awesome for business use-cases. Tailscale is the commercial tool to help setup and manage wireguard networks, and it had a big security…
mushufasa on HNTrust, or no trust, since it's all in the browser you can check for yourself what gets posted to WireHub when you submit the form containing your private key :) Quick edit: you…
rudasn on HN
Whether it is open source
From 1 comment
OOh -- this sounds actually potentially awesome for business use-cases. Tailscale is the commercial tool to help setup and manage wireguard networks, and it had a big security…
mushufasa on HN
Whether MagicDNS can be replicated
From 1 comment
This looks interesting. I’m currently evaluating my options of just giving in to Tailscale or trying to replicate it with plain Wireguard… or something like you’ve built. One…
karolist on HN
Alternatives named
Tailscale
From 1 comment
OOh -- this sounds actually potentially awesome for business use-cases. Tailscale is the commercial tool to help setup and manage wireguard networks, and it had a big security…
mushufasa on HN
Headscale
From 1 comment
Have you considered using Headscale?
candiddevmike on HN
wg-easy
From 1 comment
This looks incredibly similar to wg-easy, which I see you have cloned in your github repo as well. Is this simply a SaaS-y frontend to wg-easy, or something different all together?
mdekkers on HN
Netbird
From 1 comment
It is always great to see another solution using Wireguard, which is a great technology for modern private connectivity. I built https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird, which can…
m_santos on HN
Netmaker
From 1 comment
The question is what about the security of such a solution compared to the self-hosted version of https://www.netmaker.io/.
kszyh on HN
ZeroTier
From 1 comment
this reminds me of zerotier. however i confess i don’t know a lot of how it works under the hood. what is the main difference of this with zerotier in terms of potential use…
mmasu on HN