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I must have overlooked this when I unhappily settled for ngrok -- thank you for sharing a FOSS alternative.

I'm curious, what don't you like about ngrok? Is it just that it's a paid service? You do need a server somewhere to forward connections and that normally costs money to run

Well indeed - I wonder how these folks are gonna pay for hosting once someone starts testing a video streaming site...

It would be nice if there were flattr, Patreon, Venmo, BTC/LTC donation links all over it to pay for VPS/AWS charges. (Not PayPal, F them.)

It's good to ensure survival and utility of cool things such that Tragedy of the Commons doesn't spoil them.

Ideological reasons. I'm no Richard Stallman, but try to exclusively use FOSS software. I have made concessions for requirements at work (G Suite, Slack, Ngrok for conference calls/webhooks, etc).

The source for the backend portion is also available, https://github.com/localtunnel/server. Going to set it up shortly on my own personal box, and if it works smoothly I'll be able to present it as a self-hosted alternative to my employer.

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