You sound like someone who would throw their child's painting away instead of putting it on the fridge because it was just a piece of paper with a few brushes of paint slapped onto it.
WHAT LOL. You're on hacker news and you're complaining that people are hacking?! Literally the entire tenet is playing around and experimenting for our own edification and fun. On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted a message on the comp.os.minix newsgroup... something to the effect of "just a hobby, won’t be big and professional". I MEAN COME ON MR HACKER_NEWZ. The irony is deafening.
Full circle. Jeff originally wrote the open source program localtunnel[0], which ngrox was originally built on top of (though I doubt it is still based on that but maybe), now an open source solution to replace the commercial thing, that's based on the open source thing :)
The beauty and freedom of open source shines through
Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:
All the open source ngrok alternatives I've seen miss the importance of inspect and replay - looks like you've done that nicely.