🚀 Built a macOS tool to make local dev URLs suck less — meet Loco

Hey Indie Hackers 👋

Like many of you, I work on a lot of side projects — sometimes simultaneously 😅.

Jumping between localhost:3000, 5173, 8080, trying to test on my phone or show a client something quickly… it always felt more painful than it should be.

• I’d forget which port ran what

• Sharing a preview meant generating a new ngrok link each time

• SSL issues broke stuff like OAuth flows

• Testing on other devices = IP address hunt + manual setup

So I built Loco — a small macOS app that lets you:

✅ Use clean .local domains like myapp.local instead of localhost:3000

✅ Access your site from any device on your network (phone, tablet, etc.)

✅ Get automatic HTTPS for every local project

✅ Generate public share links (like ngrok, but simpler and built-in)

No terminal. No config. Just works.

And honestly? It’s made my dev life way smoother.