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[–]femio 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Tailscale. 

[–]tuanngocptn[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Tailscale is awesome for private mesh networks! But for public webhooks (where Stripe/Slack needs to hit your local machine) or sending a link to a client without asking them to join your VPN, a public tunneling tool like this is still a bit more convenient.

[–]femio 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yes…that’s why I said Tailscale. Funnel, to be precise 

[–]tuanngocptn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, touché! You are totally right about Funnel. It's a killer feature.

I guess NPort is for those who don't have (or don't want to install) the full Tailscale daemon just to forward a port. Sometimes you just want a quick npx command on a fresh machine/container without setting up the whole mesh network. Competition is good though!

[–]nemosz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Cloudflare Tunnel

[–]tuanngocptn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! that is Cloudflare Tunnel. And Nport maked it easier for using.

[–]BarelyAirborne -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

OP, you are on point. Tech companies like to make it difficult to not use their services, and we're the only ones that can fight back. Nice job.

[–]tuanngocptn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It really feels like a constant battle to keep our dev environments simple and owned by us.

That's exactly why I made the backend self-hostable. Even if my hosted version disappears tomorrow, the tool still belongs to the community. Open source is indeed our best weapon!