Show HN: A self hosted alternative to Ngrok

14 points by SkyLinx ↗ HN
Hi! I am sharing this because it may be useful to others. I created a simple Docker image that lets you easily expose a web app running locally on your dev machine to the Internet, via a proxy server. It is a self hosted alternative to something like Ngrok, which is a paid service if you use custom domains. A small server is cheaper than Ngrok (I use Hetzner Cloud and the cheapest server costs me 3€ per month). I use this method in particular to test HTTP verification with Let's Encrypt for a SaaS app running on my Mac. Hope this is useful :)

Code: https://github.com/vitobotta/docker-tunnel Blog post: https://vitobotta.com/2019/06/29/self-hosted-alternative-to-...

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The reason why I use ngrok is not because it is just a tunnel but because it gives you https and a really helpful UI with the ability to retry and inspect requests. Is this something you are planning on adding?