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Comment by rutierut | Hacker News Reader

So easy and super convienient if you quickly need your local server accessible from somewhere else.

This one is even easier because it doesn't require to install anything, just make a good old ssh tunnel: http://localhost.run

The thing I really love about ngrok, though, is the web dashboard where you can inspect your tunnelled traffic and even replay requests: https://ngrok.com/docs#inspect

Oh, looks like you can get a consistent sub-domain too, provided it's unique enough. Nice.

I found https://serveo.net as a good alternative to ngrok since it requires no signup, no installation and provides a custom subdomain for free.

<3 ngrok. been paying (love reserved names) for a while now.

for a self hosted option, I've also been using https://github.com/fatedier/frp lately.

I keep a VPS running with Nginx on it for a specific port. Then I forward that port via SSH using remote forwarding to enable this exact functionality. It's free if you've already got a server running.

ngrok is free even if you don't have a server running... and you can tunnel raw TCP.

(not affiliated, I just really admire ngrok so I take it personally when people don't use it :))

god, I had this same idea and thought about making it! I'm so glad you shared this, I had no idea someone else already did it! and did a great job with it, too, by the looks of it

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