I built this because I was tired of juggling VPN configs, SSH tunnels, and random IPs just to access things like a staging database or a dev API.
Private Connect lets you access private services by name from anywhere, without setting up a VPN, opening firewall rules, or running SSH tunnels.
You expose a single service, get a short-lived connect link, and access exactly that service, nothing else on the network.
This isn’t meant to replace VPNs or zero-trust platforms. It’s for the everyday “can you quickly check this?” and debugging cases where full network access is overkill.
Built this for myself first and decided to share it. Curious where this feels unnecessary, risky, or where you’d prefer existing tools.
Private Connect lets you access private services by name from anywhere, without setting up a VPN, opening firewall rules, or running SSH tunnels.
You expose a single service, get a short-lived connect link, and access exactly that service, nothing else on the network.
This isn’t meant to replace VPNs or zero-trust platforms. It’s for the everyday “can you quickly check this?” and debugging cases where full network access is overkill.
Built this for myself first and decided to share it. Curious where this feels unnecessary, risky, or where you’d prefer existing tools.
Try it out at https://privateconnect.co. Also open source https://github.com/treadiehq/private-connect