Tunnl.gg

Meet Tunnl.gg, a shortcut to share the website on your laptop with the outside world. The creator says they built it because they kept forgetting their ngrok auth token, and the crowd cheered: an alternative to popular ngrok, but without the dreaded sign‑in. Think of it as giving someone a quick peek through your digital window; no account, just a secure connection (SSH) and go. Commenters swooned over the no signup promise and the “just works” vibe, calling it “really cool” and praising the simplicity. The dev claims it’s free and written in Go. Try it at tunnl.gg.

But then the drama hit: skeptics asked who pays for all that bandwidth and what happens when bad actors use the service to host shady stuff under the tunnl.gg name. One commenter wants a scary browser warning, like Ngrok’s, to protect users. Another noticed a comic glitch: visiting /terms or /privacy returns a 404—the policies aren’t there. The thread split into two camps: no‑login freedom versus please don’t get sued. And the question kept popping up: How is this free? It’s classic Hacker News energy—applause for frictionless tools, side‑eye for risk and costs, and a chorus chanting, “Ship fast, then add guardrails.”