portex
A public HTTPS link for localhost, with the name you choose
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Details
- External ID
- 1266891
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cortex
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
portex gives the server on your laptop a public HTTPS address. Install, sign in with GitHub or Telegram, run portex http 3000. Add -s myapp to pick the name. It lasts while your tunnel is open — made for demos and webhooks, not hosting.
Enrichment
- Niche
- network utility and privacy tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- custom public https tunnels for localhost
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The client CLI is straightforward, but the tunnel relay requires custom reverse proxy infrastructure handling dynamic TLS certificates, multiplexed TCP/HTTP connections, and DDoS mitigation.
What it would actually take: A real tunneling solution needs a lightweight client binary (Go or Rust) paired with an edge cluster running custom reverse proxies (e.g., using Yamux or QUIC for multiplexed streams). The server must orchestrate on-demand ACME wildcard/subdomain TLS termination, dynamic DNS routing, and stateful socket pairing under high connection concurrency.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- Doorman · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Smuggl · ph · 2026-04-09 · 208 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tunnel.to · hn · 2026-05-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- tunnl.gg · ph · 2026-10-08 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- BurrowGate · ph · 2026-09-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Browser-based Nginx config generator with live preview · hn · 2026-09-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- HTTP-network-relay: Tunnel TCP over HTTP using WebSockets · hn · 2025-12-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- KhanyaSec · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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