me-web? 0.2: the test from outside, calls and games, mail, and what you can host
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Phases two and three ship together, because their code grew in the same
files. With consent the app asks the router to open 80, 443 and a high
port for ten minutes (UPnP, NAT-PMP or PCP), and the server, holding a
single-use ticket bound to the caller's own address, connects back and
must get an HMAC only the app can give; the mappings are removed after the
run and remembered until then, so a crash cannot leave one open. Hairpin
is tried from inside. Two STUN servers, the outside one first, tell easy
from hard NAT.

Mail gets port 25 to Gmail and Outlook, the reverse name and five
blocklists through the user's own resolver, network-wide UCEPROTECT
listings counted as a caution. DNS, speed against the server (four at a
time, twelve an hour per address) and the device follow, and six uses
(website, home from outside, files, game server, fediverse, mail) close
the run as possible, possible with a named workaround, or can't tell.

Findings can be shared after reading the exact JSON: a file per submission
under the unit's state directory, ten a day per address, deletable by the
token the app keeps, swept after twelve months; /privacy says all of it in
English and Italian. QR codes lead to the downloads. Every language carries
every string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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**Can you run your own server from here?** me-web? checks your connection and your device and tells you, in plain
words, what you could host at home, what stands in the way, and what would fix it.
> Status: early development. Version 0.1 is the first release.
> Status: early development.
## What it checks
Version 0.1 checks, and draws as a path from this device to the internet:
me-web? checks, and draws as a path from this device to the internet:
- whether you are online, or behind a login page;
- how this device is connected, and the address your router gave it;
@@ -17,11 +17,24 @@ Version 0.1 checks, and draws as a path from this device to the internet:
- whether your router answers apps that ask it to open ports (UPnP, NAT-PMP, PCP), and which internet address it has;
- whether your provider shares your public IPv4 address with other customers (CGNAT) or there is a second router
in the way;
- how your router translates addresses for calls and games (easy or hard NAT), with two STUN servers;
- only if you agree: whether the outside world can actually reach this device, over IPv4 and IPv6, with the ports
opened by your router for ten minutes and closed afterwards, and whether your own public address works from home
(hairpin);
- whether this connection can send mail directly: port 25, the reverse name (PTR) and the blocklists, asked through
your own name server;
- whether your name server checks signatures (DNSSEC) and answers honestly for names that don't exist;
- the speed against the publisher's server, and whether this device makes a sensible server;
- how your public address has changed across your earlier checks.
Planned for later versions, not in 0.1: whether the outside world can actually reach you, over IPv4 and IPv6; the
kind of NAT; sending mail, residential blocklists and the reverse name; DNS; speed; whether this device is a sensible
server; and sharing your findings to improve the provider map.
It ends with what that means: a website, reaching home from outside, family photos and files, a game or voice
server, a fediverse or blog server, a mail server — possible, possible with a workaround (and which), or can't tell.
At the end you can choose to share your findings, after reading exactly what is sent, to improve the notes on
providers; you can delete them from the app at any time, and they are deleted after twelve months
(<https://meweb.arasaka.software/privacy>).
Planned: the builds for Mac announced once they have been tried on a real Mac.
## Platforms
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## Privacy
me-web? sends nothing anywhere unless a check needs it, and lists every host it contacts ("What this app contacts"
in the app). It has no telemetry, no analytics and no crash reporting. Your checks are kept on your device only.
in the app). It has no telemetry, no analytics and no crash reporting. Your checks are kept on your device only,
unless you choose to share them.
## Verifying the Android app
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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (`LICENSE`). © 2026 Arasaka di Hvozdikov Yevheniy.
Translations other than English and Italian are machine drafts until someone reviews them. Corrections are welcome
as issues on this repository.
as issues on this repository. Nauruan and Palauan are missing: no draft good enough to ship could be written, and a
speaker's help would put them in.