Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    4.7k

    sish: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP tunnels to localhost using only SSH (serveo/ngrok alternative).

    TL;DR • sish • as of August 2026

    sish is an open-source proxy project, with 4.7k GitHub stars and a health score of 37/100. It committed 12 times in the last twelve months across 4 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    4.7k
    GitHub stars
    37/100
    Health score
    12
    Commits (12 mo)
    4/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-06-25
    Days since last commit 53
    Commits, last 3 months 4
    Commits, last 12 months 12
    Months with activity 4 of 12
    Last release 2026-06-05
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category Proxy

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    MIT

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What sish means for your idea

    Open · 14/100
    Proxy category →

    sish is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.

    sish: common questions

    Is sish still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. sish recorded 12 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 4 of those months and 4 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-06-25. Last release: 2026-06-05. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use sish commercially?

    sish is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    How crowded is the Proxy category?

    10 open-source implementations, 1 of them actively maintained, led by imgproxy at 11k stars. Saturation score 14/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.

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    SOCKS5 proxy server with built-in authentication and Telegram-bot for user management and user statistics on data spent (handy when you pay per GB of data). It is dockerised and simple to install.

    Dormant
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