Something clicked for me today about why most developer tools are free but awful, or great but expensive. There's no middle ground.
ngrok used to let you expose a port with no signup. One command, done. Then they killed that in 2023. Now it's accounts, auth tokens, credit cards, subscriptions. The tool got better but the experience got worse.
Cloudflare Tunnel is free and unlimited but you gotta move your whole DNS over. That's not a tunnel, that's a relationship.
What if there was a third option. You need a URL for an hour. You pay a tiny amount. You get the URL. When the hour's up, it's gone. No account to delete because there was never one to create.
Sounds obvious. Nobody's built it yet.
Zeke
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2026-04-02 14:22:21 UTC
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