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typicode/hotel
🏩 A simple process manager for developers. Start apps from your browser and access them using local domains
Hotel is a local process manager that assigns `.localhost` domains to your dev servers and lets you start/stop them from a browser UI. It runs a daemon that proxies requests, auto-starts servers on first access, and handles self-signed SSL. Aimed at developers juggling multiple local projects who are tired of remembering ports.
The on-demand startup (servers only launch when you hit their domain) is genuinely useful — you're not running six processes you forgot about. The PAC file approach for proxy configuration avoids touching `/etc/hosts` or requiring sudo, which is the right call. It handles the `.dev` → `.localhost` migration correctly after Chrome started forcing HSTS on `.dev`. Cross-platform support (macOS, Linux, Windows) is real, not aspirational.
Last meaningful activity was 2023; the project looks abandoned — open issues reference Node 18+ breakage and nobody's answering. The browser UI is minimal to the point of being nearly useless beyond a list of links. No support for containerized workloads beyond a thin docker-compose wrapper, so anything running in WSL2 or a VM with a different network interface needs manual workarounds. The PAC file setup is finicky to configure correctly across browsers, and the docs for non-Chrome setups are sparse.