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Exposing Local Dev Apps Securely with Tailscale Funnel

If you’ve ever needed to share a local development service or dashboard with someone outside your network, you’ve probably turned to port forwarding or ngrok. But there’s a better way: Tailscale Funnel.

Funnel lets you securely expose services running on your Tailscale-connected device to the public internet without opening firewall ports or setting up reverse proxies.

✅ Why use Funnel?

Share dev environments instantly.

Built-in HTTPS and encryption.

No VPN or static IP needed.

Here’s a quick example:

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Expose your local app running on port 3000

tailscale funnel 3000 on
Your app is now securely accessible at:
https://your-device-name.ts.net

🔒 Traffic is encrypted end-to-end, and you can restrict access with ACLs.

👉 Read the full guide here: https://subnetsavy.com/wp-content/uploads/articles/tailscale-funnel-guide.html

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