For hobby/side projects, I don't mind paying $5-10/mo for useful services, but ngrok's floor of $25/mo was too steep for me. Instead I now use Cloudflare Tunnel which is free (even for HTTPS). https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/s...
It used to be free, with no signup, and it was great. Now all I want is something that is exactly what ngrok was in 2015.
Wow. I am a customer myself and like the service. Yet, I am surprised by the size of this investment, as it doesn't look like a venture case to me. Wishing Alan and his team the best.
Anyone knows an alternative that also keeps track of the incoming requests and their response data? Preferably with the option to replay requests.
Which is in beta, how is that a production-ready alternative?
PS: Not asking you, but the guy from the original comment.
Why would beta be a deal breaker for testing stuff? No one will use ngrok in prod right? (Except malware authors)
The audience is developers and anyone testing server apps locally. You can do the same thing with a vps and ssh reverse tunnel or just use tailscale which can do the same thing. Do I have to spell out the details of what tailscale supports vs ngrok or can you make that comparison yourself? This is a comment not a critical blog response.
The topic is ngrok's valuation, my response was how there are alternatives. How is that not valuable or relevant to the topic?
What is blocked "by any sensible company"? For example, the initial outbound TCP from my local client to setup the tunnel?
Malware abuses them a lot! That's what i meant
I can confirm this. We work a lot with hospitals. When we want to let them try our services behind ngrok domains, they are often blocked. Unfortunately.