Pipenet

pipenet is a tunneling tool that creates a secure connection between your local machine and the public internet. Run a single command, and you'll get a public URL that forwards traffic directly to your localhost.

Open source: the code is at github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel.

First shown on Hacker News on 19 January 2026 as “Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel”, where it reached 114 points and 19 comments. Read the discussion.