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Portal

Self-hostable relay tunnel that exposes localhost services without port forwarding

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Portal is a self-hostable tunnel runtime that publishes local apps, APIs, and agents to the internet through self-hosted or public relays, without port forwarding, firewall changes, manual DNS setup, or a vendor account. It's fully open source, positioned as an alternative to hosted tunneling services like ngrok for developers who want to expose local services on their own terms.

Categories
developer toolstunneling

Full match profile

Behind the summary, Matchbox keeps a richer profile of Portal - the signals our matcher actually reads to decide when to surface it. It stays private; claim the listing to see and control it.

  • Problem & pain-point mapping
  • Who we surface it to (audience fit)
  • What it's a strong alternative to
  • Trust & credibility signals

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