Cloudflare Quick Tunnels have existed for more than 5 years (yes, including the anonymous quick tunnels). I copy-pasted the url of the HN link in archive.org, see for yourself: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211202005430/http://try.cloudflare.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20211202005430/http://try.cloudf...
Is a new vibe-coded landing page for a 5-year old product really worthy of being on the front page nowadays? There should at least be a [2021] in the title.
Didn't these used to be called Argo Tunnels a long time ago? I think Argo Tunnels got repositioned for connecting to origin servers without needing an incoming connection to the origin but I thought they originally did something like this/ngrok
Yeah, I just checked the page
>can connect their server to the Internet with Argo Tunnel for free
There was a problem with the name: toxic mine trailings weren't what was wanted. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_Tunnel" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_Tunnel
5 years ago imo it was less relevant, if you showed me this then I would be like "cool tech, but other then a specific scenario, why would I care"
Why do you think it’s vibe coded? Just asking to see if I can learn something. I can see it’s very standard corpo-aesthetic, uses callouts for the sake of callouts, and is horribly laggy, but corpo websites were doing all that long before AI. It also seems to be using a bunch of Cloudflare-specific terminology that I’d think would take longer to review and correct an AI on than to type yourself.
One tell is: if you can code that hero there's no excuse for the silly bugs.
For example, the hero is fairly impressive in mobile but it's broken in desktop. And then you scroll down to the next section and there's overflowing text.
They are useful for taking local llm models and delivering them with HTTPS to harnesses that expect it or to another machine. Other than that I'm not sure what I'd personally use them for.
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Yeah, I just checked the page >can connect their server to the Internet with Argo Tunnel for free
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1. the blinking "now with JSON output for coding agents". It loves to create these blinking badges
2. "Some text, and then <Text in a different color>"
Then further along the page, the "Your agent needs a URL, not a laptop" has a lot of tells of just being a straight Claude (design) output
- The small all-caps "built for the agent era" eyebrow. Once you start noticing this it's EVERYWHERE
- The 01 02 03 list
If you have access to Claude you should try have it generate a landing page for a tech product. It will almost always look like this.
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"Your laptop stays private. The URL goes everywhere."
A URL ... goes, does it?
I've seen it pointed out (& have noticed) that anthorpomorphising like this is an LLM smell.
In this case, although "URL goes" can be valid, it's just awkward here.
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For example, the hero is fairly impressive in mobile but it's broken in desktop. And then you scroll down to the next section and there's overflowing text.
IOW, the skill level is inconsistent.
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