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Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

#1
Hey there

I made a opensource alternative for these services. Although these worked very well, I was not so confident what they do. So I made my own and opensourced it.

It is written in Golang and is fully customizable.

Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io
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Re: Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

#4

You mention 13ft as another open source inspiration. How is Ladder improving on what 13ft does?

I did try 13ft. But it misses several points.

The ladder applies custom rules to inject code. It basically modifies the origin website to remove the Paywall. It rewrites (most of) the links and assets in the origins HTML to avoid CORS Errors by routing thru the local proxy.

The ladder uses Golangs fiber/fasthttp, which is significantly faster than Python (biased opinion) .

Several small features like basic auth ...

Re: Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

#6

Is it just me or has 12ft become less and less effective? I rarely get through with it these days.

Their policies have apparently… changed. They accept donations to not have your website bypassed. Archive.org is much better.

Edit: apparently it is down now.

402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED ID: fra1::8wkv2-1699275385535-39dedae23d6a

Re: Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

#10
Relevant: 12ft.io was banned by Vercel, taking down the developer's entire account with multiple other hosted projects & domains: https://twitter.com/thmsmlr/status/1718663563353755982

Edit: Access to other projects & domains was apparently restored some time after: https://twitter.com/thmsmlr/status/1719480558932148272

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