[Eun]

I don’t see a usecase where a non dev should expose some local resource to the internet. These people don’t run local webservers, nor know how they work.

ngrok is a developer tool. I don’t see why marketing a dev tool to non devs is a good idea, maybe somebody can explain?

[remexre]

What makes this seem like a non-developer tool? You need a server you control, you need to mess with YAML files, "configure Caddy" is one step that's assumed to be easy, etc.

[pcthrowaway]

From their docs:

Why? Stable subdomains and SSO are two things too expensive.

Why not just pick one from the Awesome Tunneling? Think broader. Not everyone is a dev who knows about server operations. For people working as community managers, sales, and PMs, booting up something locally could already be a stretch and requiring them to understand how to set up and fix server problems is a waste of team's productivity.

Copy, paste, and run is the best UX for everyone.

[Eun]

It says literally:

> Not everyone is a dev who knows about server operations. For people working as community managers, sales, and PMs, booting up something locally could already be a stretch and requiring them to understand how to set up and fix server problems is a waste of team's productivity.

[remexre]

Oh, I read that as "you can send the links to community managers, sales, and PMs rather than making them run the app locally," since that's like, the main usecase.

[Eun]

Ah could also be, but the whole sentence was like this:

> Why not just pick one from the Awesome Tunneling? Think broader. Not everyone is a dev…

So I read this as targeting non devs.

I think every other alternative from that list also supports common usable links.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

I've heard of people wanting remote access to things like Plex or security cameras hosted in their basement. Usually via VPN, but I could see someone using this kind of thing.