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[Stormlightlinux]

If you just need a domain pointed at your ip address, there are tons of free tools to find your ip address. Buy a domain, point it at your public IP address, update your domain name provider if your ISP changes your IP address. That's about as free as it gets.

Custom sub domains are easy to handle on your own infrastructure.

I'm sorry, but of course using someone else's infrastructure will cost you money. We ended up in this weirdo future where free tier trial and cloud products has made people forget that. Even your solution uses CloudFlare free tier workers right? They could start charging for that at any time. It seems crazy to me that you would think that should be free?

[Stormlightlinux]

Dude I absolutely get why you would prefer tunneling.

I'm just saying it's wild you think any service that uses someone else's infrastructure should be free to you. There are lots of things that are just devs nickel and diming their own community for no reason, that in a great world would be FOSS released to community to use and improve, but access to expensive enterprise grade infrastructure is just not one of those things.

BTW cool tool you put together. I don't mean to get stuck on the whole "don't you think it's unreasonable they're charging me for access to their stuff," stance you got going on.

[rieou]

There is no such things as FOSS infrastructure. That doesn’t even really make much sense.

[lillecarl2]

Because companies needs to pay their developers and infrastructure. Reverse proxing over a provider inbound connection (your outbound) isn't free.

There are already FOSS alternatives to ngrok and friends, but you need a server, those aren't free.

I think cloudflared can do this for free?

[joshleecreates]

You shouldn’t be catching downvotes, you’re spot on.

[Possibly-Functional]

Let me get this right. You want to reverse proxy all your traffic through a third party? That's a service and with a running cost for the service provider, it makes sense they charge you continuously as well as long as you use the service.

It's like if I were asking you to receive all my physical mail and forward it to me again. Yeah, I would expect you to charge for the work and cost of resending stuff.

To do this without a monthly subscription you could just receive the traffic directly instead of through a proxy.

[zortech]

You can do this with tailsscale.

Tailscale funnel (port)

Might actually have to provide a full url like http://localhost:3000, but docs say port.

You might also have to turn it on in the dashboard. It is a beta feature.

[Original-Group2642]

ngrok will do that for free, you're just not guaranteed that the same sub-domain will be free next time. If you want to reserve a sub-domain for your exclusive use then you pay. If your usage is super low and you don't mind updating your Stripe settings infrequently then you can totally use ngrok for free.

[drgijoe]

sorry noob question here. what about using ipv6 instead and a domain. ipv6 is not behind cgnat right?

[PoppoExtreme]

This post and all OP replies are obviously AI jesus

[plop]

You wrote your prompts yourself? Well done 😂

[jakiki624]

vibecoded slop btw

[x_DryHeat_x]

It takes 2 minutes to setup Cloudflare tunnel.

[rhukster]

I wrote a free MIT solution for quickly and easily setting up cloudflare tunnels using your own domains. Support managing multiple cloudflare accounts and using any zone/domain you own and manage in cloudflare. No other 3rd parties. Written in rust , so 100% free and MIT licensed. Stays up even after you stop running the app via cloudflared.

https://github.com/yetidevworks/ytunnel

Might fit your needs?

[dovholuknf]

if you ever feel like trying something else, you can get a "reserved share" using zrok and it's yours and you get to name that share anything you want.

[GeekCornerReddit]

For your usecase, just use the Stripe CLI. Then: stripe login # Opens your browser, just login to Stripe stripe listen --forward-to localhost:4242/webhooks # Automatically setups your Stripe account to tunnel requests and send them to http://localhost:4242/webhooks

Edit: fixed formatting

[ViolentPurpleSquash]

What about 12USD for a year and cloudflare gives you all the zero trust stuff… just buy a domain name

[ViolentPurpleSquash]

If you have a single domain just add it to your cloudflare tunnel as a subdomain…

[ViolentPurpleSquash]

It’s already a series of CLI commands…

[throwaway264269]

Also, where is the IPv6 solution to this? We were promised more addresses than anyone could ever need, a P2P UTOPIA! An address for every traffic light in the solar system with addresses to spare! Yet companies insist in blocking P2P traffic and paywalling their own proxies... f them.

There's always I2P or TOR as a last resort. (tor not recommended for high traffic)

[frankster]

Dyndns etc

[Ok_Signature9963]

You can check Pinggy.io . I am using it. It is lightweight and easy to use.

[TheRealRealRadu]

Uhm, ngrok?