Cloud storage is designed around a sensible idea: your files should exist in one place and follow you everywhere. That design is excellent for working material and quietly poor for finished material, because it hands the recipient a container rather than the thing itself. They land on a file listing, work out which item is the current one, download it, and open it in whatever application their machine picks — three steps and two opportunities to see the wrong version before they’ve looked at your work at all. Publishing the finished piece as a page inverts that: one link, opens on click, current by definition. Storage and delivery are simply different jobs, and it’s worth using a different tool for each.
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Upload the finished artefact — a self-contained HTML file, or a zipped folder if it’s a small set of linked pages — and you get a link ending in 32 random characters. Nothing about it announces who made it or what’s inside, it carries a no-index tag so search engines skip it, and there’s no directory anywhere on miinideck that lists it. The only route in is the address you send.
The person receiving it clicks once. No account, no app install, no “request access” round-trip, and no download that lands in a folder they’ll never clean out. On a phone this is the difference between reading your work on the spot and putting it off until they’re at a desk — which, for anything you need a decision on, is often the difference between a reply and silence.
Because it’s a page rather than a copy, you keep hold of it after sending. Replace the file and the same link serves the new version, so the address you sent last week is never stale. Add a password when the contents warrant one, set an expiry so access ends on a date you choose, and see whether it’s been opened at all — which a downloaded copy in someone else’s drive can never tell you.
You can, and for material that’s still moving between collaborators that’s often the better tool. The friction shows up with finished work: a drive link opens a file listing rather than the work, usually asks the recipient to download before they can see anything, and sometimes asks them to sign in or request access first. Those are correct behaviours for a sync product. They’re just extra steps between your client and the thing you want them to look at.
No. The link itself is the credential — it ends in 32 random characters, which is far too much entropy to guess or crawl your way into — so anyone you send it to can open it, and nobody else can find it. That also means you should treat it like a key: if a link could be forwarded somewhere you’d rather it wasn’t, add a password or an expiry.
Anything that is, or can be exported as, a self-contained web page: a report, a deck exported to HTML, a prototype, an interactive chart, a portfolio piece, a small multi-page site zipped up. What it isn’t is general file storage — miinideck doesn’t serve arbitrary binaries, and it isn’t the right place for a video master or a folder of raw camera files. Those genuinely belong in a drive.
Yes. Set an expiry date and the page stops opening when it passes, which is useful for a proposal with a validity window or a review link that shouldn’t outlive the review. On the free plan pages expire after seven days; paid plans let you choose the window, including keeping a page up indefinitely.
Not by default — every page carries a no-index tag and there’s no public directory listing pages on the site, so private stays private without you configuring anything. If you ever want a specific page to be findable, that’s an explicit per-page switch on an account, and it stays off unless you turn it on.
On Studio, yes — pages can be served from a domain you control, which is what you want when the link is going to a client and you’d rather the address carried your name than ours. Combine that with the unbranded page on paid tiers and the delivery reads as yours end to end.
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