pwliwanow makes Mike run on a laptop, then puts it behind a tunnel

pwliwanow's fork lets you stand up Mike end-to-end without any cloud accounts. A bundled local database stack, a stand-in AI that returns canned answers when no API keys are present, and a local-disk fallback for document storage mean the whole product runs on one machine. Seven sample contracts ship with it so the empty state actually has something to click on.

The second half is about safely showing that local instance to someone else. The fork adds a shared-secret check and HTTP password prompt across both the backend and frontend, designed to sit behind a Cloudflare Tunnel (a service that exposes a local server to the public internet). Anyone in the link gets challenged before they reach the app. Worth noting: in this mode, signed-in users share whatever AI keys the operator has configured - fine for a personal demo, a billing problem for anything multi-tenant.