Alternatives

Products that do what TunnelAPI does

Secure tunneling, api gateway & webhook testing

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   Rabona Tunnel▲164

   Expose Your Localhost Securely

   2024

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   Expose▲126

   Share your local sites via secure tunnels

   2021

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   Wa-tunnel – HTTP Tunneling through Whatsapp▲453

   Side project tunneling a TCP port through WhatsApp, can be useful on airplanes or any WiFi/carrier that has unlimited social network data limits. Appreciate feedback :)

   2022 · github.com

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   Tunnelto.dev – expose localhost with a public URL (built in Rust)▲100

   2020 · tunnelto.dev

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   ssrok▲6

   Expose localhost instantly with secure, ephemeral tunnels.

   Feb 2026 · kuulto.app

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   Tunnel▲127

   Collaborative preview URL for your local web app

   2023

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   Tunll▲97

   Tunnels from public internet to localhost for all developers

   2022

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   Expose▲184

   A beautiful, open-source, tunneling service - written in PHP

   2020

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   Pinggy▲282

   Public URLs for localhost without downloading any binary

   2024

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    Malai – securely share local TCP services (database/SSH) with others▲117

    malai is a peer to peer network, and is a dead simple to share your local development HTTP server, without setting up tunnels, dealing with firewalls, or relying on cloud services. In malai 0.2.5, we have added TCP support, which means you can expose any TCP service to others using malai, without opening the TCP service related port to Internet. With malai installed on both ends, any TCP service can be securely tunneled over it. It can be used to secure your SSH service, or securely share your database server. GitHub: https://github.com/kulfi-project/kulfi (star us!)…

    2025 · malai.sh

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    btunnel▲117

    No more localhost, welcome to the internet

    2023

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    tunnel.to▲7

    Public URLs for localhost — outbound only, no firewall edits

    Jun 2026 · tunnel.to

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    ngrok – secure introspectable tunnels to localhost▲66

    2013 · ngrok.com

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    Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost▲178

    Hey HN! We've developed OpenAPI AutoSpec, a tool for automatically generating OpenAPI specifications from localhost network traffic. It’s designed to simplify the creation of API documentation by just using your website or service, especially useful when you're pressed for time. Documenting endpoints one by one sucks. This project originated from us needing it at our past jobs when building 3rd-party integrations. It acts as a local server proxy that listens to your application’s HTTP traffic and automatically translates this into OpenAPI 3.0 specs, documenting endpoints, requests, and…

    2024 · github.com

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    Kusk-gateway, an OpenAPI Ingress Controller, is now in Beta▲10

    2022 · kubeshop.io

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    TunnelBear▲174

    Secure your data and hide your IP address behind a bear.

    2014

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    RelayKit▲17

    Webhook infrastructure with a local dev tunnel built in

    Jul 2026 · relaykit.io

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    I made an SSH tunnel manager to learn Go▲213

    2024 · github.com

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    Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download▲101

    2023 · pinggy.io

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    Tunnelfy▲157

    Manage Cloudflare tunnels from VSCode

    2025

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    PipeGate – A Lightweight, Self-Hosted Proxy to Expose Local Servers▲33

    Hi Hacker News, I’d like to introduce PipeGate, a lightweight, self-hosted proxy built with FastAPI. I created PipeGate as a fun little exercise to understand how tunneling services work under the hood. PipeGate allows you to expose your local servers to the internet, giving you full control over your setup.

    2024 · github.com

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    OtterKit▲2

    Tunnels & webhooks for you and your AI agents

    Jul 2026 · otterkit.com

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    Tunnl▲8

    Expose localhost with persistent custom domains

    Feb 2026 · tunnl.info

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    Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel▲114

    Hey HN! localtunnel's server needs random ports per client. That doesn't work on Fly.io or behind strict firewalls. We rewrote it in TypeScript and added multiplexing over a single port. Open-source and 100% self-hostable. Public instance at *.pipenet.dev if you don't want to self-host. Built at Glama for our MCP Inspector, but it's a generic tunnel with no ties to our infra. https://github.com/punkpeye/pipenet

    Jan 2026 · pipenet.dev

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