Real-world use cases

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From webhook testing to IoT devices — see how developers use Binboi to ship faster without touching production.

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Use cases

Five ways developers use Binboi every day.

Webhook Testing

Receive GitHub, Stripe, Slack, or any other webhook payload on your local machine — no ngrok account, no config files, no surprises.

Inspect every payload in the local dashboard
Replay any request with one command
Verify HMAC signatures end-to-end

# Start a tunnel with a stable subdomain
$ binboi http 3000 --subdomain stripe-hooks 
  Tunnel started
  Public URL  https://stripe-hooks.binboi.dev
  Forwarding  https://stripe-hooks.binboi.dev → localhost:3000
  Status      online
# Register this URL in your Stripe dashboard as the webhook endpoint
# → https://stripe-hooks.binboi.dev/webhook

Team Preview Links

Share your local branch with a teammate for review — no deploy, no staging env required.

Stable subdomain per branch or PR
Works behind corporate firewalls
Zero setup for the reviewer

# Name the tunnel after your PR number
$ binboi http 3000 --subdomain pr-review-42 
  Tunnel started
  Public URL  https://pr-review-42.binboi.dev
  Status      online
# Share the URL with your team — they can open it in
# any browser without any Binboi account or setup.

Live Demos

Give a live demo directly from your laptop — no deploy pipeline, no staging environment, just a tunnel.

Use any reserved subdomain for your demo
Attendees see changes in real time
Stop with Ctrl+C when done

Start demo

# Reserve a clean, professional-looking subdomain
$ binboi http 8080 --subdomain acme-demo --region eu-west 
  Tunnel started
  Public URL  https://acme-demo.binboi.dev
  Region      eu-west  (latency: ~18ms)
  Status      online
# Open https://acme-demo.binboi.dev on the projector.
# Every code change you make is visible immediately.

IoT & Raspberry Pi

Expose a Node-RED dashboard, home automation UI, or sensor API running on a Pi or edge device from anywhere.

Works on ARM64 and ARMv7
Runs as a systemd service
No port forwarding on the router

# On the Raspberry Pi (arm64 binary)
$ curl -fsSL https://dl.binboi.dev/install.sh | sh 
$ binboi login --server https://tunnel.example.com 
# Expose the Node-RED dashboard on port 1880
$ binboi http 1880 --subdomain home-pi 
# Or run as a systemd service (auto-restart on reboot)
$ sudo systemctl enable --now binboi-tunnel

Self-hosted Services

Reach your local Postgres, Gitea, Nextcloud, or any TCP service remotely — without opening firewall ports.

TCP tunnels with fixed remote ports
IP allowlist restricts access
Works with any database or server

# Expose local Postgres on a fixed remote port
$ binboi tcp 5432 --remote-port 15432 \
    --allow-cidr 203.0.113.0/24
  TCP endpoint  tunnel.example.com:15432
  Forwarding    tunnel.example.com:15432 → localhost:5432
  Status        online
# Connect from anywhere
$ psql -h tunnel.example.com -p 15432 -U myuser mydb

How it works

Three commands from zero to public URL.

Install

One command — works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

$ npm install -g @binboi/cli

Login

Authenticate against your self-hosted server.

$ binboi login --server https://tunnel.example.com

Expose

Get a public HTTPS URL pointing to your local port.

$ binboi http 3000

Ready to try it?

Install the CLI and get a public URL in under two minutes.
No account required for self-hosted setups.

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