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Life & fun · January 11, 2023

Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download

Pinggy is the simplest way to bring your localhost projects online. It the the fastest way to create secure tunnels to localhost with a public url.

Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download launched on January 11, 2023 with 101 votes, #426 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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In plain words

Pinggy is a tool that creates quick tunnels to localhost, allowing users to expose local servers to the internet with a single command and no need to download any binaries. It's designed for developers who need to share their local work or test applications remotely. The service handles tunneling through a web-based interface, making it straightforward to set up without additional software installation.

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Make your developement experience smoother by unlocking the full potential of Pinggy. If the ssh command prompts you for a password you can just press enter (a blank password). Or you can type in something random and press enter. In windows, sometimes, the ssh tunnel cannot reach localhost because of some bug in the ssh client. Replace localhost with 127.0.0.1 in your Pinggy command. Pinggy relies on SSH remote port forwarding. The option -R 0:localhost:8000 in the command only implies that connections to the public URL given by pinggy are forwarded to your localhost:8000 . No other port than the one specified by you can be accessed by Pinggy or by anyone through the public URLs provided by…from pinggy.io

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