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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

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  1. TIPSIO · · focus · HN ↗
    My wife and I have a mobile group/shared bot system where we can make mini apps and collab.

    Anything from baby stuff, groceries, shopping, planning, wine tracker app, simple/fun/useful data things, etc…

    We have Tailscale on our phones and can instantly and privately see without deployment or anything crazy via our secure VPN.

    Think shared Claude Artifacts that don’t live @ Anthropic.

    Tried to first do this with Cloudflare Tunnels (because I love Cloudflare), but between the broken dashboard side of Zero Trust and nightmare of Warp… it was basically impossible to setup. I guess that’s all super enterprise, which seems to be very anti-Cloudflare philosophically to not be able to self do things.

    Will check out Quick Tunnels but I think it’s missing the bigger integration offerings Tailscale has/does still.

    1. allthetime · · focus · HN ↗
      I use public dns routed to private Tailscale ips for all my home services. If i want to expose something for friends who don’t use Tailscale I connect a cloudflare tunnel… it’s pretty much a couple clicks and typing in a subdomain name once cloudflared is running on a server… what were you having trouble with?
      1. pruneau · · focus · HN ↗
        I use NextDNS instead of public DNS to do the same thing.
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