// use case

Expose Postgres on your laptop for a quick collaborator review

You need a colleague to query a Postgres database that's running on your machine for a review session. Setting up a remote dev DB takes hours; lrok does it in seconds — with a single TCP tunnel.
  1. Tunnel Postgres

    $ lrok tcp 5432
      Forwarding tcp://tcp.lrok.io:30007  ->  tcp://127.0.0.1:5432
  2. Reviewer connects

    $ psql 'postgres://you:pass@tcp.lrok.io:30007/mydb'
  3. Tear down

    Ctrl+C in the lrok process and the public port disappears.

// why lrok for this

Pro plan tunnels are not bandwidth-metered, so a Postgres dump that's hundreds of MB doesn't cost you a thing.

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