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CLUSTER LOCAL-SECURE-EXPOSES · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-01-19

local tunnel exposure tools

This cluster consists of tools for exposing local services to the internet via tunnels, ranging from Chrome-profile-specific Docker VPNs and peer-to-peer LLM sharing to public HTTPS endpoints for development and self-hosted services. Members emphasize bypassing NAT, VPN configuration, and DNS setup, with some offering custom domains, TLS, or UDP support. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from—it predates the index or its members are undated. Among active members, nodelane-tunneld leads on traction with 2 stars, while easy-port and modelpipe each have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2024: 1JAN 2026: 1FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 4
JUL 2024OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 12 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 indie · 1 commercial · 3 open source · 8 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01taillaunch18★1 day—Browser wrapper that opens private Tailscale applications without requiring a full VPN client or system-wide networking changes.
  2. 02wireztna-oss11★6 daysliveSelf-hosted zero-trust network access platform that provides per-user fine-grained access to private resources without requiring a domain.
  3. 03instadeploy3★8 days—Tool that exposes locally hosted apps to the internet through public HTTPS URLs without port forwarding, reverse proxies, or certificates.
  4. 04portkey1★5 days—hobbyDesktop client that establishes reverse SSH tunnels through an existing server connection to expose local services without installing software on the server.
  5. 05zorven3★1 moliveSelf-hosted reverse-proxy and tunneling platform that exposes local services on stable public domains over encrypted outbound connections, with dashboard and team controls.
  6. 06nodelane-tunneld2★1 moliveSelf-hostable tunnel service that exposes local HTTP, TCP, and UDP services to the internet through public endpoints without requiring an account.
  7. 07modelpipe0★19 days—Exposes local language model servers securely peer-to-peer without VPN or account, enabling access from anywhere.
  8. 08Cloudflare-Tunnel-Manager0★26 days—hobbyWindows desktop app that manages multiple Cloudflare Tunnels, publishing local web services to the internet through a graphical interface without a public IP.
  9. 09VPN Snake Lite: Private Net0★1 moliveVPN client that connects using user-provided configuration files to create an encrypted tunnel without accounts or logging.
  10. 10easy-port0★1 mo—ai-builthobbyDesktop app that exposes any local port to the internet through a public HTTPS link and manages active tunnel connections.
  11. 11VPN-router0★1 mo—Tool that assigns each Google Chrome profile a separate local VPN tunnel using Docker, ensuring fail-closed browsing without remote servers.
  12. 12Carabiner0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that creates and manages network tunnels to share local web, game, or other services publicly through guided setup wizards.
  13. 13sakura-frp-launcher-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceDaemon that establishes a fast reverse proxy tunnel to expose local servers to the internet from behind NATs and firewalls.
  14. 14ofly0★8 mostaleliveai-builtindieTunneling service that exposes a local machine as a secure public https server without cloud hosting costs.
  15. 15flyingdarkdevtunnel0★5 moliveopen sourceTunneling platform that exposes local development servers as secure public endpoints with custom domains, TLS, and request inspection.
  16. 16ngrok0★unknownlivehand-codedcommercialNetworking tool that creates secure tunnels exposing local applications to the internet without configuring DNS, port forwarding, or VPNs.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.