The problem holesale.live solves
It is an innovative solution to instantly expose any local computer port to the internet. This unlocks many opporutnities such as:
- Multiplayer gaming
- Hosting websites on local server on the internet
- Securly exposing your home network to the world for IOT without exposing your IP address.
- Instantly setting any development server on local to live on the internet.
- Sharing easy access with clients and friends
- A very good solution to access self hosted media platforms such as NAS and Kodi Media player.
- SSH without exposing the ssh port or IP address.
- Can be used as an alternative to the VPN for network security, where a firewall blocks all incoming data on the ports, but hypersale bypasses the firewall and allows anyone with the "SEED" to access your system.
Challenges we ran into
- CORS policy issue prevented us from testing our website from local, overcame it by allowing content origin all on our API server for the management panel of all the open ports/tunnels.
- Hypertele , a technology we rely on was not available as a module, so we reverse engineered it to make it work.
- Time management: This project is is a huge undertaking, so we worked all the time we had.