Use cases
Share a local dev server with a teammate
Give a teammate a real HTTPS URL for the app running on your laptop, instead of screen-sharing or deploying a throwaway build.
Share a local dev server with a teammate
You are building something on your laptop and a teammate wants to click through it — on their own machine, on their phone, from wherever they are. Screen-sharing is clumsy and deploying a throwaway build is overkill. With Kepeink you hand them a real HTTPS URL that points straight at the dev server you already have running.
Why Kepeink is great for this
- No deploy step: the URL serves exactly what is running on your machine right now, live-reload and all.
- Works from any connection — home Wi-Fi, a coffee shop, tethered LTE — because the agent dials out.
- Tear it down the moment you are done. Nothing stays hosted.
The recipe
- Start your dev server and note its port:
npm run dev # → listening on http://localhost:3000 - Create a proxy tunnel targeting
http://localhost:3000and copy its agent token. - Run the agent in the foreground so it stops when you close the terminal:
curl -fsSL https://cdn.kepeink.hu/run.sh | sh -s -- --token=kpt_xxxxxxxx - Send your teammate the assigned hostname. They open it and see your dev server over HTTPS.
When you are finished, press Ctrl-C to stop the agent — the URL goes dark and nothing is left running.