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Dev tools · January 12, 2021

Loophole

Instant hosting, right from your local machine

Loophole launched on January 12, 2021 with 7 votes, #1,184 of 3,157 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Loophole allows you to make your Web application public without actually deploying on a cloud service. It provides a user-friendly domain that you can share with your remote users/friends/teammates to try/use your WebApp with minimal effort. Now you can also share your local directory over the secured tunnel!

No more hassle with port-forwarding, bypassing firewalls, or setting up dynamic DNS. Do what you are best at, CODING. We take care of the rest! Instantly create a public HTTPS url for a website running locally on your development machine. By default, we offer end-to-end SSL encryption for all of our services - your data is secure all the way to your local services. Automatic TLS is built into our client using Let's Encrypt. All our services utilize HTTPS for securing all traffic. Run multiple tunnels simultaneously with a single loophole client. We offer Basic Auth or Bearer Token authentication strategies to limit access for safety. You are protected from exposing your network and the…from loophole.cloud

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