We are using the w3name service for making sure our IPNS keys are constantly republishing. w3name announced they would be deprecating the service in January.

Does anyone know about any good alternatives? Or is this the writing on the wall that we should build this service out in-house?

Here’s a blog post that outlines how we are using IPNS: https://blog.dappling.network/adding-ens-support-to-dappling/