ASD is Starting a New Way to Build and Share Developer Infrastructure

What we're building: tunneling simplicity. Deployment freedom. Collaboration unlocked.

At ASD (Accelerated Software Development), we're not just building another developer tool. We want to redefine how software teams access, share, and manage their environments. Our focus is clear: secure service tunneling and a container-native dashboard that powers accelerated collaboration across any team, stack, or country.

The problem we're solving

Too many tools claim to simplify deployment, but what about everything that happens before that? Without a secure, flexible tunneling service, developers face friction at every turn:

• Struggling to share a running service with a remote teammate for live debugging? You're stuck with clunky screen shares or complex VPN setups.
• Testing webhooks during CI/CD? Without real, public endpoints, you're guessing until production — if it works at all.
• Need to help debug a Redis or PostgreSQL issue? You're wasting time messaging logs over Teams instead of just connecting to your colleague's local instance.
• CI job failed again? Without terminal access to the GitLab/GitHub runner, you're left pushing dozens of commits hoping the missing library magically appears.
• Peer programming in a remote team? Good luck trying to spin up shared environments without burning hours on setup.
• Need to secure a tunnel with HTTPS and authentication? Prepare for a weekend of reverse proxy config and Let's Encrypt debugging.

This is where ASD comes in.

ASD tunnel: expose, secure, collaborate

We're launching a modern alternative to tools like ngrok. Built in Europe, for transparency and scale. With ASD tunnel, your local services become securely and selectively available on the public internet. No binaries, no vendor lock-in, just clean, scriptable tunnels powered by open source.

• TLS termination via Caddy
• Access control via basic auth or Supabase-based SSO
• One subdomain per service, securely mapped to your internal tools
• No installer required. Everything is managed via plain SSH, Docker containers, and optionally Bash or PowerShell scripts. Easy to use in CI/CD workflows

ASD dashboard: a developer-first PWA

Alongside the tunnel platform, we're building a powerful progressive web app to manage, visualize, and control your tunneled services. The ASD dashboard is a modular UI that brings everything into one place — designed to solve the headaches developers face in hybrid and CI/CD workflows.

• Container-native: Widgets are iframe-driven and connect to running Docker services with zero config.
• Customizable: Configure boards and views per team, project, or workflow stage.
• Offline-capable: Works locally via service workers, with persistent layout memory.
• Integrated tools that just work:
  • code-server lets you edit and debug directly inside the dashboard, ideal for live pair programming.
  • ttyd gives you instant shell access to remote services for CI/CD troubleshooting.
  • DbGate enables remote database browsing and debugging without sharing passwords or firewall changes.

All logic lives in containers. Your CI/CD machine is just another node. Expose it, control it, test it, and collaborate on it in real time.

CLI tooling: no GUI required

Our upcoming asd-cli gives you full control from the terminal. Forward ports, manage sessions, and retrieve public URLs programmatically. Ideal for scripting, pipelines, or live support.

# expose a local app on port 8000 to a public slug
asd expose 8000 --subdomain myapp

You can also connect manually via SSH using a scoped password or token:

sshpass -p '<PASSWORD>' ssh \
-4 \
-o PreferredAuthentications=password \
-o VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes \
-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
-o ServerAliveInterval=30 \
-o ServerAliveCountMax=3 \
-o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes \
-o TCPKeepAlive=yes \
-T -p 2223 \
-R <SLUG>:80:localhost:8000 \
<USER>@<NODE>.asd.engineer

What makes us different

• Privacy-first: hosted in Europe, no tracking, no hidden data harvesting
• Open standards: Docker, SSH, and Caddy. No black-box binaries, giving you control and transparency.
• Scalable & Cost-Effective: Designed to handle many connections without the punitive pricing of traditional tools.
• Scriptable and composable: you own your workflows
• Built for developers, by developers

What's next

In the next few months, we will roll out:

• Invite-only beta access to ASD tunnel
• Public release of the ASD dashboard as a PWA
• Open-source release of asd-cli with full documentation
• Automated token provisioning and tunnel setup from the dashboard
• Self-hosted templates and guides to use tunnels in your own infrastructure

Be part of it

If you're tired of sharing ngrok links that expire, hitting connection limits, manually forwarding ports, writing long explanations to reproduce bugs, or being limited in how many connections you can open, this platform is for you.

Visit asd.host, sign up for early access, or contact us at info@asd.host.

Build local. Share global. Secure everything. Welcome to ASD.