Hi HN,
I’ve been working on a side project called torserv and figured I’d share it now that it’s live on GitHub.
TorServ is a zero-config static web server that automatically launches as a Tor hidden service. It’s written in Go, bundled with Tor, and designed to be unzip-and-run — no setup, no clearnet exposure, no surprises.
I was surprised there wasn’t already a privacy-hardened static web server for hidden services. Most people have to wrangle Apache or Nginx with heavy config, which is risky and complex for non-experts.
TorServ is meant for censorship-resistant publishing, quick anonymous drops, or low-footprint Pi/sneakernet scenarios. It only binds to localhost and has hardened defaults out of the box.
Highlights:
- No clearnet, no external connections
- Runs on 127.0.0.1 only
- No logs, no analytics
- EXIF/PDF metadata scrubbing
- Multilingual default index with usage tips
- Optional --new-key flag to rotate onion address
- Cross-platform: Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi
Project: https://github.com/torserv/torserv
Still early days — would love feedback, audits, ideas. Thanks for checking it out, and big respect to the Tor devs who make projects like this possible.
Since posting to HN: - Released v0.2.1 (README and setup improvements) - 296 views, 132 unique visitors - 143 clones, 102 unique cloners (unbelievable for a 4 day old project) - 20 stars - 1 PR already submitted
It’s still early, but I'm so grateful for the encouragement and support. Thanks again.
GitHub: https://github.com/torserv/torserv