Why “ngrok” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Ah, an ngrok competitor. It's what we elderly (~40 myself), yelling-at-clouds types call "reverse SSH tunnels", but this is an anachronism from the era of knowing how to do thin…
by abalashov · Sep 19, 2026
Cloudflare tunnels are really useful when dealing with webhooks. Way better than Ngrok and you can set it up on a custom subdomain you own. eg: site.yourdomain.com
by Nevin1901 · Sep 19, 2026
perhaps this is the most easy to use networking product that ever shipped, but given ngrok did this many years before, maybe they just think for the agentic era? though one must…
by mintflow · Sep 19, 2026
hi y'all, ngrok creator/founder here. we removed anonymous usage of our product many years ago because it was far and away the largest source of abuse on our entire platfor…
by inconshreveable · Sep 18, 2026
The main use case: cloud harnesses to access your local network; I highly recommend to run the harness in your local network instead, then you own the session, no tunnel needed.…
by _user_account · Sep 18, 2026
Worst marketing ever. ngrok had a similar slogan: something like - "We help you put localhost on the Internet." What could possibly go wrong?
by sparc24 · Sep 18, 2026
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