Pinggy
Shares rank 5 of 7 tunneling services by recommenders
People recommend it as a simple way to expose localhost with one command, using plain SSH and no software to install, and as an alternative to ngrok.
People recommend it as a simple way to expose localhost with one command, using plain SSH and no software to install, and as an alternative to ngrok.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Simple one-command setup
“Pinggy tunnels are very simple to use. One command:”
Comment from 18 Sep 2026 in “Cloudflare Quick Tunnels” “to make it the easiest tunneling tool”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)” Plain SSH, nothing to install
“you can just use the standard ssh command to port forward a port for some time and so you can debug it”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Text-Based Web Browsers” “You don't need to install anything, since it uses a plain SSH tunnel.”
Comment from 18 Sep 2026 in “Cloudflare Quick Tunnels” Better alternative to ngrok
“As someone who is using Pinggy after we had to move away from ngrok. Thank you. I love the product.”
Comment from 31 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?” “I think pinggy remains a better alternative of ngrok.”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Holesail – Share localhost over peer-to-peer, no port forwarding”
Other tunneling services people recommend
The four most recommended other tunneling services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Quick Tunnels | 29 | 26 | 53% | 1 | — | — |
| ngrok | 19 | 14 | 58% | 11 | — | — |
| Tunnl.gg | 12 | 4 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
| BitBang | 10 | 1 | 91% | 3 | — | — |
| PinggyThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“As someone who is using Pinggy after we had to move away from ngrok. Thank you. I love the product.”
“i love this! never understood why a proxy app was needed”
“Pinggy tunnels are very simple to use. One command:”
“You don't need to install anything, since it uses a plain SSH tunnel.”
“you can just use the standard ssh command to port forward a port for some time and so you can debug it”
“The core features of this tunneling tool are stable.”
“a zerotier alternative to pinggy, recently shown on hn”
“I think pinggy remains a better alternative of ngrok.”
“For cf tunnel alternatives are available, I maintain pinggy.io”
“For that kind of end-to-end encryption I use pinggy.io tls tunnels.”
“to make it the easiest tunneling tool”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.