There are many amazing projects and alternative front-ends strewn about the gopherverse, some of which can completely eliminate the dependency on their plain-web versions.
There are also holes that provide tools unique to gopher.
Let’s make this thread an on the fly database of front-ends, services and useful tools.
For the niche interest: SSH Tunneling Through Gopher Project
https://github.com/diki-haryadi/gateway-gopher