serve: an MCP That Turns Hosting and Tunneling Into a Conversation With Your Agent
Imaginary-Bluejay721 · reddit · 2026-09-05
A Reddit developer has spent months building serve, an MCP service whose core idea is making hosting and tunneling as natural as chatting with Claude or Codex — no dashboards, port juggling, or tunnel setup; you just tell your agent to put a presentation, website, or local app online and hand you the link.
Key points:
- The agent figures out intent, publishes the file, and returns a URL; all link management also happens via conversation.
- Differences from ngrok: 3 live tunnels on the free plan, unlimited persistent links that never expire or get recycled, branded subdomains for Pro users.
- Supports personalized URLs per client, e.g. client-specific pricing pages.
- Install via remote MCP at mcp.servelink.cc or npm i -g servelink/serve.
The author is actively seeking feedback, especially from heavy Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor users.
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