Vercel just shipped drag-a-file-get-a-link. With Netlify, tiiny, and others already here, sharing a built page as a live link is officially the new normal. Here's the whole landscape of tools — and how to pick one — if you're done emailing PDFs.
If you've been half-watching the space, you might have missed how fast it moved. Netlify Drop popularized "drag a folder, get a URL." tiiny.host built a whole business on "the simplest way to host an HTML file." pagedrop made it a zero-signup paste box. And in June 2026, Vercel — a company powering a huge slice of the modern web — shipped Vercel Drop: drag an HTML file, folder, or zip, get a live production link in seconds.
When a platform that size adds something to its front door, it's worth reading as a signal. The signal here: handing someone a built page as a live link is becoming the normal way to share work — the upgrade to the era of "find attached, see PDF."
The reason the timing lands is what's happening on the making side.
A few years ago, producing a polished interactive page took a developer. Now you ask an AI and get a self-contained HTML artifact in a minute — a prototype, a dashboard, a pitch deck, a one-page microsite. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, v0, Lovable, and the rest all output exactly the kind of thing these "drop a file, get a link" tools were made to share.
So here's the honest question worth asking yourself: are you still delivering that work the old way?
If you're exporting to PDF, zipping a folder, or screenshotting a prototype into a deck, you're flattening something interactive into something static — and quietly looking a step behind the people who just send a link that runs. Handing a client, a stakeholder, or an investor a live page they open in their browser is a small thing that makes you stand out.
The good news about Vercel joining in: you now have real choice. The trap is treating the tools as interchangeable — they're built for different jobs.
| Tool | Best for | Default visibility |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel Drop | Testing a deploy on a major platform; on-ramp to Vercel's full pipeline | Public, indexable |
| Netlify Drop | The same, in the Netlify ecosystem | Public, indexable |
| tiiny.host | Dead-simple public hosting for a one-off HTML page | Public |
| pagedrop.io | Zero-signup, instant, throwaway sharing of a quick creation | Public (community gallery) |
| GitHub Pages | Free hosting for a public static site, if you're comfortable with git | Public |
| miinideck | Delivering a page to specific people — clients, stakeholders — privately | Private (unguessable, noindex) |
A rough way to choose:
That last row is what we build miinideck for. Same gesture as all the others — drag an HTML file or a zip, get a link in seconds — pointed at the private-delivery job: the link is unguessable and hidden from search by default, you can add a password or an expiry, and you can re-publish at the same URL when the work changes, so the link you already sent your client keeps working. A password and one always-on link are free; paid tiers drop the expiry and the footer and add a custom domain.
It's not a competitor to "ship it to the web" — it's the option for when the work is for an audience of three, not the whole internet.
If you're weighing us head-to-head against one of the public-deploy tools above, there's a post for each: vs Vercel Drop, vs Netlify Drop, and vs tiiny.host — each on when the public-deploy shape fits and when private delivery does.
However you share it, the bigger shift is the one worth acting on: your work can be a link now. Vercel Drop is one more sign it's time to stop attaching it.
Vercel Drop turns a dragged file into a live production URL on a major platform. miinideck turns one into a private link for specific people. Both fit 'drag a file, get a URL' — and were built for opposite jobs. When each fits, where the overlap is narrow.
Cloudflare Pages is a public, global CDN site — built to be found and to scale. A private link is built to reach a named audience and nobody else. They solve opposite halves of "I made a page, now what." Here's the honest fit for each, where the backend boundary sits, and how to pick in one question.
PageDrop vs miinideck, compared by design: one was built for links that expire on purpose, the other for links that need to last. What each was for, where they genuinely overlap, and where the disposable-page job goes now that PageDrop is winding down.
miinideck turns a single HTML file into an unguessable link with optional password and expiry. Default-private, never indexed.