Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

“appears to be exactly what I need right now”

“They are useful for taking local llm models and delivering them with HTTPS to harnesses that expect it”

“Yet so many developers do not know about it.”

“I use this a lot, but find it a bit hard to manage if you want a persistent tunnel locally”

“its good for quick UI sharing”

“cool tech, but other then a specific scenario, why would I care”

“perhaps this is the most easy to use networking product that ever shipped”

“Insanely helpful when doing agentic work on the go”

“We tried multiple SF to us-east-1 and it was always substantially worse”

“I have a good use for them today”

“The quick tunnel concept seems really great”

“The marketing from Cloudflare around this being for agents feels like the intended use case is for agents to exfiltrate data off your laptop”

“I've never seen someone fail a static page like this. And from a huge company like Cloudflare too..”

“what a horribly vibe coded website that barely works on mobile”

“Getting the hostname to resolve took 30 mins of waiting.”

“your tunnel URL prints in the console and you can download dirs as tarball”

“anonymous, account-less tunneling services like this are net negative for the security of the internet”

“this cloudflare thing is exactly what you need (w/o Tailscale)”

“the vast Internet surveillance system run by the Americans called Cloudflare”

“This is a very good solution for HTTP(S) tunneling”

“I'm actually shocked at how much this looks like the output of a one-shot prompt.”

“ultimately gives nefarious actors on the internet more opportunities”

“Cloudflare's only goal here is to put themselves between everyone and charge a toll.”

“No log in needed, pretty convenient.”

“it's very easy to just run a quick tunnel with "cloudflared tunnel --url localhost:XXXX"”

“What is more concerning is the AI slop webpage and just the "AI" centered relaunch of an existing product.”

“how long until someone's agent sets up a tunnel for the world to see one's most sensitive, private and embarrassing information”

“CF leaks DNS-records. So bots will find these urls instantly.”

“They literally market them for quick demos. And not long lived production.”

“This is yet another traffic generator to drive up Cloudflare's leverage when negotiating peering with carriers & service providers”

“I'd still be hesitant to make them part of a long-lived production setup.”

“This requires no port forwarding, so someone brute force scanning your IP won't find this and your open port.”

“before I discovered that limitation in the TOS”

“it's a nice way to quickly test a new service or change over the internet without going through the git process”

“you shouldn't subject a clients product to terms they probably aren't aware of”

“I think this will be quite important in the age where everyone has their self-hosted services.”

“The obvious difference (and thus massive advantage) of the cloudfare product is that it is accessible over the normal internet without needing to install a tor client.”

“This is handy, but I wonder how much it will cannibalize their services.”

“it says no account creation, neat!”

“I dont like the terms of use.”