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hi hn, i'm the creator of ngrok. here to answer any questions! we're excited to continue bringing the magic of ngrok to production workloads. there's no networking to configure, ju…

hi all, i'm the creator of ngrok. we released a similar SDK for Go a couple weeks ago [1] and we're really excited to make it just as easy to listen on the internet as it is to lis…

hi all, i'm the author and creator of ngrok. we're really excited to make it just as easy to listen on the internet as it is to listen on a local port. happy to answer any question…

hi all, creator and founder of ngrok here! we're super excited to share this release with the HN community. i'll try to answer any questions you have in the comments here. we're ma…

can you tell me a little bit more about what's tedious about it and/or the higher-layer problem you're trying to solve? edit: feel free to email me as well at alan at ngrok dot com…

happy to chat more about our future plans offline, feel free to send me a note. i’m alan at ngrok dot com. would be curious to see what project you’re incubating!

hi folks, i’m the founder/creator of ngrok. happy to answer any questions. we’ve got some exciting improvements we’re looking to share with the community very soon here <3 to you a…

Thanks Kord! Founder of ngrok here, just a quick note of correction for others in this thread: ngrok is absolutely intended for production use cases. There are many customers both …

Really sorry about the frustrations! We're working on improving both of those pain points (as well as many other things). If you're still an ngrok user, send me an email at alan at…

It's missing my personal favorite: ngrok http file:///Users/alan/share

ngrok | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Remote OK | US Only | https://ngrok.com ngrok is looking for networking and distributed systems engineers. ngrok has a rare combination of a…

ngrok | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Remote OK | US Only | https://ngrok.com ngrok is looking for networking and distributed systems engineers. ngrok has a rare combination of a…

Author here. After four years, I still stand by this advice/critique. As everyone likes to point out, there are a few presenters that are an exception to the rule. That's true! I'm…

ngrok | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | Remote OK | US Only | https://ngrok.com ngrok is looking for senior backend networking and distributed systems engineers. ngrok is a rare co…

ngrok | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://ngrok.com ngrok is looking for senior backend distributed systems engineers! Your favorite developer tool is buil…

please file a false positive bug report against windows defender. there's not much I can do about that if they're misclassifying ngrok

same idea, great project. folks pay for ngrok because it's 1) more reliable 2) more featureful

Certainly, although even with complete adoption of ipv6, i suspect we'll still see most networks locked down to prevent incoming connections

1) it depends on the network. the best way is simply to try it 2) yes 3) nope, they can use whatever standard tooling you already use

ngrok's value is for services that don't have public IP addresses (anything behind a NAT or firewall)

Yes that's correct, ngrok hosts servers around the world that serve as 'relays' which accept connections on your behalf and then copy the bytes through to a persistent connection i…

Hiya there folks - I'm the creator of ngrok, happy to answer any questions

I love the idea of this: that there is a place you could go to get a pulse on the opinions of technology professionals regarding the tools they're working with. So I apologize for …

Cool. I'd love to see a section detailing the most important trade-offs that differentiate upspin from other projects, compare the approach to the alternatives and explain why upsp…