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Personally I think they might be feeling the heat from Cloudflare Tunnel. To quote myself from a couple weeks ago[0] (note that an ngrok employee responded to s
by anderspitman 5y ago
Personally I think they might be feeling the heat from Cloudflare Tunnel. To quote myself from a couple weeks ago[0] (note that an ngrok employee responded to some of my concerns):
> As much as it pains me to say it, Cloudflare seems well positioned to eat ngrok's lunch. AFAIK they offer everything ngrok does plus auto TLS certs, CDN, domain name registration, and tons of other features. They also have way more edge servers for terminating tunnels close to the origin devices. And they can afford to do all this for free as a loss leader product. It's the AWS bundling effect. Oh and the client source code is available.
> I don't want to see Cloudflare completely take over this space, but Cloudflare Tunnel is tough to compete with.
> One knob ngrok could still turn is adding auto TLS certs which are managed on the client side. Then you can offer e2ee which is something Cloudflare will probably never do.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260530
- samhw 5y agoI'm amazed even to hear the words "an Ngrok employee", like it were Google or something. The last time I remember reading about Ngrok, it was just one guy's repo on GitHub. That doesn't even feel that long ago. I'm stunned and perplexed to hear all of this.
- evanelias 5y agoNgrok is a high-quality, well-engineered, bootstrapped product. Honest question, why be stunned and perplexed that it is successful enough to build a company around? Plenty of software companies start this way. And there's a huge spectrum between "having employees" and "being Google".