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I went looking for a one-curl HTML host. I built one instead.

DEV Community·Maksim Kochetkov·20 days ago
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I went looking for a one-curl HTML host. Everything was broken. I tried to publish an HTML file from my phone last month. One file. Already written, already saved, just sitting in iCloud Drive waiting for a URL. Every "free HTML host" I found wanted signup, served broken MIME types, or had a homepage bragging about 130,000 publications that turned out to be a hardcoded number in the static HTML. 130,000?! On a service nobody I know has ever used. I was scrolling in a coffee shop, asking my Claude Code agent to find me a host I could hit with one curl. The agent kept returning options, and I was already half-tired by then, so the bar for "good enough host" was on the floor. Each option had a wall. Signup form. OAuth. An OpenAPI spec that didn't match the actual endpoints. One site looked promising for about 90 seconds, until I viewed source and found that famous "130k pages" counter pasted in as a literal string. I closed the tab and stared at my phone for a while. Side projects usually die.…

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