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.
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.
Two tools that both turn a dragged file into a URL. One is designed for public deploy testing; the other for private one-recipient delivery. When each fits, where the overlap is real.
Two tools that both host an HTML file, designed for different jobs. When tiiny.host fits, when miinideck fits, and where the choice actually matters.
miinideck turns a single HTML file into an unguessable link with optional password and expiry. Default-private, never indexed.
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.