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Artifacts Demo It, Hosting Ships It

'Publish this as a shareable page' gets you a live URL in a minute — it republishes to the same address as you iterate, which is perfect for showing a client work in progress. Know the box you're in: one page, no backend, 16MB, private or public. Forms, logins, and payments are your cue to move to real hosting.

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Why it works

'Publish this as a shareable page' produces a live URL in about a minute, and each republish updates the SAME URL — which makes artifacts the perfect demo tier: the client refreshes and sees today's version. The box has walls: one page, no backend, a size cap, private-or-public sharing. Forms that store data, logins, payments — each of those words is the signal to graduate to real hosting.

How to do it

  1. Finish a page worth showing; say: 'publish this as an artifact I can share.'
  2. Copy the link; open it on your phone once (that's the client's first device, not Chrome on your Mac).
  3. Iterate in the session; republish — same URL, new version. The feedback loop is refresh.
  4. Set sharing deliberately: private link for a client preview, public for the world.
  5. Track the boundary: the moment the page must REMEMBER anything (form data, users, orders), it's hosting time.
  6. Migration is one instruction: 'deploy this to real hosting' — the artifact was the rehearsal.

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Publish this page as a shareable artifact. Then tell me exactly what this artifact can't do compared to real hosting, so I know when we've outgrown it.

What to watch for

  • A contact form on an artifact is theater — there's no backend to receive the submission. The demo can LOOK complete and still be a brochure.
  • Sending a client the private-mode link means a login wall with their name on it; check the sharing setting before the send, not after the confused reply.

Sources

Original: conon.ai

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