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 making all of the functionality available for free until may so that you can try everything out. once you have an ngrok account visit https://dashboard.ngrok.com/launch-party to light up all the new features and give it a spin. we're eager to hear your feedback

also feel free to reach out over email, i'm inconshreveable at ngrok dot com

Congrats on the 3.0 launch!

I just wanted to let you know your FAQ on the pricing page [0] isn't currently working (sections don't expand, answers are in the DOM, just not being shown).

[0] https://ngrok.com/pricing

Peters-Mac-mini-i5:~ peternikolow$ ./ngrok version

ngrok version 2.3.40

Peters-Mac-mini-i5:~ peternikolow$ ./ngrok update

No update available, this is the latest version.

That's strange!

I remember the days when Ngrok was just a little indie project. If I recall correctly, you could get the pro version by making a donation. (Which I happily did). Great to see they’ve now evolved in to a full-fledged company.

This is probably the easiest way I've seen to put your app behind an oauth provider! Pretty exciting stuff.

I wouldn't have checked it if you didn't mention this.

Thanks!

Ps. Yes, i know of ngrok and use it sometimes.

I'm super happy for Ngrok, I remember first hearing about it on HN forever ago and immediately loving what it allowed you to do. I've used it multiple times on and off since then and it's the first thing that comes to my mind in the problem space of "need to expose local service temporarily". It appears they are moving more into the Cloudflare Tunnels territory which is pretty dang cool.

I wish I had more of use for Ngrok because my current usage doesn't merit a $20/mo subscription. Recently I ended rolling my own poor-mans-ngrok using Cloudflare Tunnels (needed a static domain to test my Apple Pay implementation and some other domain-verified-only things) and they are really cool but ngrok is way easier to get started with and use.

Check out Bore: A modern, simple TCP tunnel in Rust that exposes local ports to a remote server

https://github.com/ekzhang/bore

Another option is Rathole, also written in rust

https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

Ngrok has always been fantastic, and I'm excited to try this out!

At a previous job, we were using them to provide remote access to embedded linux devices, deployed to flaky internet connections all over the place, and it worked flawlessly.

On top of that, they were incredibly responsive and helpful to all manner of questions despite us being a small customer.

Unfortunately we went out of business before we could really start leveraging ngrok at scale :(.

Wait -- isn't this like 2x the price it was yesterday?

If you've doubled the prices and barely addressed it that is NOT cool. Will you be auto grandfathering in existing customers?

Looks like it with some packaging changes: http://web.archive.org/web/20220406172505/https://ngrok.com/...

Just wanted to give praise to the ngrok team. Solves a real hurdle for corporate developers and has been working great for our team.

Great work. Congrats to Keith and the rest of the Ngrok team.