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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-18

PierTun, a one-device tunnel instead of a VPN

peertun.com ↗ · Developer Corner · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

PierTun provides remote access to a named service or device without opening an inbound firewall port, installing a driver, or routing into the wider network.

Why it surfaced

The tool is built for the awkward machines developers actually encounter: a customer's locked-down PC, a controller, a database, or a box with a small web interface. Its open-beta page explains the mechanism plainly—an outbound-only connector, expiring tokens, and one host-and-port destination at a time—while openly marking what is still under development.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-18 Domain Arrivals issue.