Your localhost, on the internet
Run requex tunnel --port 8080 and get a public HTTPS URL pointing at your local machine. No account required, no config files, no session limits.
What you'll be able to do
Built for anyone who needs external traffic hitting a local server: webhook development, AI model sharing, client demos, team previews.
Local AI model hosting
Running a Gradio interface or FastAPI inference server on your GPU? Point the tunnel at its port and share the URL directly with teammates or clients. No cloud deployment, no Docker, no waiting for CI.
Single command, live in seconds
There are no YAML configs to write, no firewall rules to open, no ngrok accounts to manage. Run one command, get a public URL. The tunnel terminates when you stop it — nothing persists.
Share a work-in-progress
Send a link to your local frontend or API to a designer, client, or PM. They open it in a browser; it hits your machine. No staging deploy, no environment mismatches.
TLS from the browser to your machine
The public URL is HTTPS. Traffic is encrypted end-to-end via TLS termination at the edge. We do not buffer or store request bodies.
Test real webhook payloads locally
Point Stripe, GitHub, or Shopify webhooks directly at your local handler. See the exact payload hit your code in real-time, set breakpoints, and fix the handler before shipping anything.
Reserved subdomains
A stable subdomain like your-app.requex.me that persists across tunnel sessions. OAuth redirect URIs and webhook endpoints stay valid between restarts.
How it works
Three steps. Zero complexity.
Start your app locally
Run your server on any port — Flask, FastAPI, Next.js, Express, a raw HTTP server, whatever. It just needs to be listening.
Run the tunnel command
Run requex tunnel --port 8080. Within a second or two, a public HTTPS URL is assigned and ready.
Share the link, receive traffic
Hand out the URL or paste it into a webhook config. Requests from the internet hit your local machine directly. Stop the tunnel to take it down.
Why we're building this
We built Requex to make webhook testing fast: generate a URL, see the request, move on. The more developers we talked to, the more we kept hearing a different frustration:
“I just need my localhost on the internet for 10 minutes. Why do I need to sign up, install a binary, configure a YAML, and pay $20/month?”
Existing tunneling tools were designed for a narrower use case. They rate-limit free plans, enforce session timeouts, and charge for features that should come by default. Meanwhile, local-first AI development has added a whole new category of need: developers running LLMs, Stable Diffusion, and RAG pipelines on their own hardware who just want a teammate or mobile app to reach that endpoint without a full cloud deployment.
Requex Tunneling is being built to handle this directly: one command, no config, no account required for basic usage, no bandwidth throttling, no session limits. A direct encrypted pipe from the internet to your machine.
Register your interest — we'll notify you when it's ready
Who it's for
ML Engineers & Data Scientists
- Expose a local model API for integration testing
- Let frontend teams hit your GPU-trained model endpoint
- Demo inference results to stakeholders without deployment
- Share Gradio or Streamlit apps without a cloud account
Backend & API Developers
- Test webhook deliveries from Stripe, GitHub, Shopify against your local handler
- Share a local API with mobile developers on the same team
- Debug OAuth callback flows without a staging environment
- Run end-to-end tests against third-party services
Frontend Developers
- Share a local build with a client for review — no deploy needed
- Test on real devices over the tunnel instead of using simulators
- Show UI changes to the team without waiting for CI
- Run integration tests against a locally running backend
Indie Hackers & Side Projects
- Temporarily expose a project for free
- Give beta testers direct access to a local build
- Receive webhook events while working offline or in transit
- Prototype against third-party APIs without a staging server
Get notified when it ships
Drop your details and we'll reach out when tunneling is ready.
While tunneling is in development, you can already test webhooks without any tunnel using Requex.me. If you need to compare ngrok alternatives, see the full guide: