Terra Gohan
Terra Gohan is a personal, non-commercial maker project and publishing identity whose site is a calendar of things being made. Its first prominently released project, mcptunnels, gives local Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers public, temporary URLs in one command without accounts or configuration files.
At a Glance
- MCP server developers
- AI-agent and developer-tool builders
- Developers testing remote MCP clients
- Teams demonstrating or sharing local MCP tools
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mcptunnels
CLI Tunnel for MCP Servers
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Latest News
mcptunnels repository added a managed token registry for upstream credentials.
Show HN launch: Mcptunnels – ngrok for MCP with basic OAuth.
The terragohan calendar announced mcptunnels as released and linked to the project site.
mcptunnels v1.0.0 initial release published with anonymous quick tunnels, 24-hour TTL, self-hosting, and automatic HTTPS support.
Products & Services
An open-source Go CLI and self-hostable relay for exposing a local stdio MCP server through a public Streamable HTTP URL. It can also expose an existing remote HTTP MCP server, run a remote HTTP MCP server from a stdio client, and operate against the hosted relay or a self-hosted tunneld instance.
Market Position
mcptunnels positions itself as MCP-specific rather than a generic TCP/HTTP tunnel: unlike ngrok, cloudflared, and bore, it accepts an MCP server command, bridges stdio to Streamable HTTP, supports MCP-oriented OAuth, and is self-hostable. Its trade-off is that the hosted MVP is intentionally ephemeral (24-hour URLs), free/best-effort, and not a billing-backed SaaS; the roadmap calls for permanent tunnels and scalable HTTP-service deployment later.
Leadership
Founders
terragohan
Solo developer/creator using the terragohan identity. The GitHub account owns the public mcptunnels and website repositories; the terragohan terms page says the site code, layout, and original artwork are made by terragohan. No legal name or prior employers are published in the reviewed sources.
Founding Story
The site describes itself as a personal, non-commercial fan project and a calendar of things being made. mcptunnels was developed as a spare-time project in response to real user pain around making local MCP servers reachable: its Hacker News launch says it was made because OpenAI tunnels did not work, while its roadmap frames the initial goal as an anonymous, ephemeral tunnel that avoids accounts and deployment overhead.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The project explicitly says it is not a hosted, billing-backed SaaS. The default hosted relay is free and best-effort; self-hosting is a first-class path. No paid monetization is described.
Pricing Tiers
Anonymous, best-effort relay at tunnel.mcptunnels.xyz; tunnels expire after 24 hours.
Run tunneld yourself via a binary, Docker, or bare metal; infrastructure costs are separate.
Target Markets
- MCP server developers
- AI-agent and developer-tool builders
- Developers testing remote MCP clients
- Teams demonstrating or sharing local MCP tools
- Operators who want a self-hosted MCP relay
- Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Claude Code, or another remote MCP client to an MCP server running on a laptop.
- Demo an MCP server to a teammate without deploying it.
- Test an MCP server against a real hosted client during development.
- Self-host the relay for teams or deployments that need control of the tunnel infrastructure.
- Use a remote HTTP MCP endpoint from a stdio-only client.