tailscale-proxy

Share all your local dev servers through one stable Tailscale *.ts.net URL — a self-hosted ngrok alternative. Grab the app, or run one command.

⬇️ Download the desktop app

macOS — Apple Silicon & Intel.dmg Windows — 64-bit.zip Linux — 64-bit.tar.gz

A native menu-bar app — no terminal needed. Screenshots, install steps & all releases →

⚡ Or one command in the terminal


npx tailscale-proxy                   # discovers your dev servers + shares them via Tailscale
brew install meabed/tap/tsp && tsp    # or install the binary

First time? npx tailscale-proxy doctor checks your setup, or follow the 4-step Installation guide.

An open-source, self-hosted ngrok alternative built on Tailscale : discover your local dev servers by port and expose them through a single Tailscale entry — privately (Serve , tailnet-only) or publicly (Funnel ) — routed by project name.

Why not ngrok? Your traffic runs over your own Tailscale tunnel on a stable *.ts.net URL — no third-party tunnel, no per-session random URLs, no request rate limits or paywalls. Share many dev servers through one hostname, and discovery is automatic — no ngrok http 3000 per port.

No per-app wiring: just run your servers (node, bun, deno, python, php, ruby, go, java, …) and tsp finds the ones listening in a port range, derives a path slug from each project’s folder, and routes to them under one hostname:

tsp strips the first path segment (the project name) and forwards the rest to that project’s local port — so …/web/foo → 127.0.0.1:4983/foo.

It re-scans every few seconds (so servers that come and go are picked up), keeps a service for a few scans before de-registering (no flapping on restarts), streams SSE, and proxies WebSocket upgrades. Zero runtime dependencies — one small Go binary.

Try it in 30 seconds


# Start a couple of dev servers (each in its own project folder)
cd ~/sites/portfolio && npx serve -l 3000
cd ~/apps/web        && npx next dev -p 4000
 
# Share them through one Tailscale URL
npx tailscale-proxy doctor
npx tailscale-proxy


Services:
  https://bigfoot.tail-scale.ts.net/portfolio/  →  127.0.0.1:3000
  https://bigfoot.tail-scale.ts.net/web/        →  127.0.0.1:4000

Why

One hostname, many apps. Funnel only exposes a single hostname; tsp puts a path-routing proxy behind it so every dev server is reachable.
Zero config per app. Run your server normally; tsp discovers it by port.
Looks like localhost. The app receives Host: localhost:<port> (so CORS, cookies, and host-allowlists match) — with --forward-host when you need the public URL.
Private or public. --private for tailnet-only Serve; Funnel by default.

Head to Installation or Getting started.