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Helps groups of people with shared interests plan events and facilitates off line group meetings in various localities around the world.

Key Meetup features:

Networking Opportunities Variety of Groups and Events Event Management Tools Local Focus

Facebook events without the Facebook.

Event management software that runs the full lifecycle on one platform: branded event pages, registration and ticketing, email, SMS and WhatsApp campaigns, on-site check-in and badging, B2B matchmaking, a mobile app, and cross-event analytics.

Key Eventtia features:

Ease of Use Comprehensive Features Customization Integrated Communication Tools

Visit website paid $1,650 / Annually Sponsored

A beautiful, open-source, tunneling service - written in PHP.

Key Expose features:

Ease of Use Security Custom Subdomains Local Development Support

Open Source

Serve Apps, Connect Software, Access Devices.

Key Packetriot features:

HTTP(s) Tunnels Custom Domains IP Filtering Authentication

freemium $5 / Monthly (5 Tunnels, 5 TCP Ports / Tunnels, 1TB of Bandwidth)

Edge redirects, smart links, and traffic routing without server config.

Key UrlEdge features:

Edge Redirects Smart Routing Traffic Control

freemium $19 / Monthly (Base)

ngrok enables secure introspectable tunnels to localhost webhook development tool and debugging tool.

Key ngrok features:

Ease of Use Security Speed of Setup Flexibility

Open Source

Your network without the IT work. Radically simple, always-on tunneling service for mission-critical applications.

Key LocalXpose features:

Connections Tunnels types Active tunnels per seat Multi Regions

freemium $8 / Monthly (1 seat)

Public URLs for localhost without downloading any binary.

Key Pinggy.io features:

HTTP(s) Tunnels TCP and TLS Tunnels Custom Domains Live Header Manipulation

freemium $2.5 / Monthly (Pro, 1 tunnel, HTTP, TCP, and TLS tunnel, Custom Domain)

Instantly share your localhost environment!

Key localhost.run features:

Simplicity No Installation Required Free and Instantaneous Wide Compatibility

Bring your localhost servers on-line.

Key Pagekite features:

Easy Configuration No Need for Static IP Supports Multiple Protocols Custom Subdomains

Next-generation sharing platform built on top of OpenZiti.

Key zrok features:

User-Friendly Interface Secure Data Transmission Scalability

Open Source

Seamlessly manage, promote & monetize your events.

Key Yeerlo features:

User-Friendly Interface Comprehensive Feature Set Customer Support

Webhook Relay receives, transforms and delivers webhooks to any destination — a public URL, a private server, or your localhost. With durable retries your events survive outages, deploys and flaky endpoints, so nothing slips through.

Key Webhook Relay features:

Ease of Use Wide Protocol Support Security Features Real-time Data Forwarding

freemium $9.99 / Monthly