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I got frustrated trying to share simple HTML projects, so I built a tool to host them instantly without deploying.

DEV Community·Karthik·about 1 month ago
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Hey everyone! I’m a 19-year-old student, and I kept running into the exact same annoying problem: trying to quickly share a small static web project (HTML/CSS/JS) with a friend or test it on my phone. Zipping it up and sending it over Discord is clunky, and setting up a whole GitHub repo just to link it to Vercel or Netlify feels like way too much effort for a 5-minute homework assignment or a quick CSS test. So, as a side project, I decided to just build my own solution called RunZip. The concept is incredibly simple: you just drag and drop a .zip file of your project onto the screen. The server instantly extracts it, finds your index.html, and gives you a live public URL and a QR code so you can scan it on your phone immediately. No account required, no login screens, no git commands. Because I’m hosting this completely for free on Render, I had to be careful about running out of disk space. I ended up making the whole platform strictly ephemeral.…

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