Pgrok – Poor Man’s Ngrok

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  • pgrok

    Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding (by pgrok)

  • I use Postgres in my personal projects because I have a server (with backups etc.) running anyway. Since this project also has OIDC authentication, I imagine the target audience may already be running a PG server?

    Going by https://github.com/pgrok/pgrok/blob/main/internal/database/d... I don't think adding SQLite support should be that difficult. The ORM used (gorm) has SQLite support already.

  • pgrok

    Discontinued Free Introspected tunnels to localhost, like ngrok but free and unlimited

  • I see.. it's bit confusing, since there's an existing project in the same space (https://github.com/jerson/pgrok). It's even linked on the project above via the awesome https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling list, I don't know why this is necessary.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • awesome-tunneling

    List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.

  • I see.. it's bit confusing, since there's an existing project in the same space (https://github.com/jerson/pgrok). It's even linked on the project above via the awesome https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling list, I don't know why this is necessary.

  • tunnelmole-client

    Tunnelmole - Connect to local servers from anywhere

  • By the sounds of it Ngroks pricing is out of control. They used to allow commerical use for individual developer subscriptions, why not now?

    I recently launched Tunnelmole, an open source alternative. You can just run the client and then you don't need to worry about NAT/CG-NAT, port forwarding or running your own server unless you want to self host, which is possible because the service layer is also open source.

    You can get it from https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client

  • zrok

    Geo-scale, next-generation peer-to-peer sharing platform built on top of OpenZiti.

  • I work on the open source OpenZiti project. We recently released zrok (https://zrok.io/), we have Local Debugging Interface in the backlog - https://github.com/openziti/zrok/issues/73.

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