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by benologist 2420 days ago
This is a free equivalent to ngrok and it only uses SSH - https://serveo.net/ - and it accepts custom subdomains. I spin it up for each project like this with $DOMAIN and $PORT being defined/fixed for each project and the connection kept open permanently using autossh:

     ssh -R $DOMAIN:80:localhost:$PORT serveo.net
There are API endpoints for creating, listing and deleting webhooks in Stripe now too - my test suites and dev instances purge any existing webhooks and create a new one each run.

https://stripe.com/docs/api/webhook_endpoints/create

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Do you think there would be demand for `serveo` but instead of running your project locally, you point to a Dockerfile and the entire container + all of its dependencies are ran remotely (with wildcard subdomain SSL included)?

I was going to test the waters with https://www.dollardeploys.com/ (not functional yet), wasn't sure how to differentiate it between ngrok/serveo.

I think at that point you're really into Heroku's territory rather than ngrok/serveo. Their free dynos might be hard to compete with, you can push a git commit or docker image or automatically deploy upon repo changes:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/deploying-with-docke...

I 100% agree which is why I decided not to pursue the idea. Thank you very much for taking the time to provide feedback!
I've started using `serveo.net` to monitor my internet uptime (Raspberry Pi with a simple webserver, [updown.io](https://updown.io) to request it via [serveo.net](https://serveo.net)) but they were unavailable/offline for ~4 days within the last 10 days.
Currently offline due to phishing.

     Serveo is temporarily disabled due to phishing.

     Serveo will return in a few days with a few new 
     restrictions to help dissuade abuse. Thanks for your patience!
The message is new, usually the website was also down, but this probably explains why.