Quickish – Instant HTML Hosting

As Claude and ChatGPT has gotten better, I've found myself enjoying using Co-Work to make presentations at work. Sharing the HTML files on Slack and elsewhere was cumbersome and trying to host it somewhere public (even if unlisted) wasn't much of an option for my work stuff.

Then I saw Shopify's blog post about Quick (https://shopify.engineering/quick), an internal intranet with simple HTML page hosting and was inspired. I wasn't sure I could get buy-in to host it at my day job so I spent my own time coming up with Quickish. Now I can share all my beautiful presentations.

Originally I wanted it to be tied to Google Drive / Workspaces, you share the folder with quickish and put your HTML in, quickish hosts it while respecting the privacy of the folder (workspace only, etc). However, as I worked through building I realized I could make it easier to use and add that part in. Actually, it already works behind the scenes I just need to get the app verified.

And now, you have what you see. Everyone gets 1 free live site at a time (you can push multiple, just your latest one via CLI or whichever you choose one the web UI is active at a time unless you opt for the cheap unlimited plan). Just run `npm i -g quickish && quickish` in a directory with your HTML file and that's it, one Google OAuth away from the page being live. You can keep them private and only invite other users (only google for now) as well.

If you use a work e-mail sites you publish are auto-gated to only people within your org. Again, only Google Accounts for now (more coming, OneDrive, Dropbox to start).

Pages do get access to JS DB scoped to your account / workplace which is fun (imo) - I am in the process of touching up the live pub-sub (think claude made live dashboard fed by API posts to your quickish db).

Hope you enjoy!