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I don’t see a usecase where a non dev should expose some local resource to the internet. These people don’t run local webservers, nor know how they work.

ngrok is a developer tool. I don’t see why marketing a dev tool to non devs is a good idea, maybe somebody can explain?

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What makes this seem like a non-developer tool? You need a server you control, you need to mess with YAML files, "configure Caddy" is one step that's assumed to be easy, etc.

It says literally:

> Not everyone is a dev who knows about server operations. For people working as community managers, sales, and PMs, booting up something locally could already be a stretch and requiring them to understand how to set up and fix server problems is a waste of team's productivity.

Oh, I read that as "you can send the links to community managers, sales, and PMs rather than making them run the app locally," since that's like, the main usecase.

Ah could also be, but the whole sentence was like this:

> Why not just pick one from the Awesome Tunneling? Think broader. Not everyone is a dev…

So I read this as targeting non devs.

I think every other alternative from that list also supports common usable links.

From their docs:

Why? Stable subdomains and SSO are two things too expensive.

Why not just pick one from the Awesome Tunneling? Think broader. Not everyone is a dev who knows about server operations. For people working as community managers, sales, and PMs, booting up something locally could already be a stretch and requiring them to understand how to set up and fix server problems is a waste of team's productivity.

Copy, paste, and run is the best UX for everyone.

I've heard of people wanting remote access to things like Plex or security cameras hosted in their basement. Usually via VPN, but I could see someone using this kind of thing.

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