Quickstart
From nothing to a live URL. Three steps, and about five minutes.
Step 1 - install pushd
Add pushd from the Chrome Web Store - it’s free, no account needed. Pin it to your toolbar if you like (puzzle-piece icon → pin), so the popup is one click away.
Step 2 - connect a hosting provider
Your site needs somewhere to live. pushd deploys to hosting you own, so you connect one provider once - the free plan includes one connected provider of your choice.
Open the pushd popup, pick a provider, and follow the built-in steps. Each one boils down to: create a free account at the provider, create an access token there (click get token in pushd), paste it in. You’re connected!
Not sure which to pick? Setup guides for each:
- Netlify - smoothest all-round, the default choice
- Cloudflare - unlimited bandwidth, good free tier
- GitHub Pages - keeps every version of your site
- Vercel - excellent hosting, developer-flavoured
- Tiiny.host - email only or permanent paid option, email route requires no token or account (but sites expire in ~15 minutes).
- cPanel - your own existing web hosting
Step 3 - push a page
Ask your AI for a web page, for example: “make me a web page for my sourdough recipes”. When the page is built, pushd adds a ↑ Push button right next to it:
- Claude: on the artifact’s card in the chat, and added to the live preview.
- ChatGPT: on HTML code blocks, beside the Copy button
- Gemini: on HTML code blocks, and in the Canvas toolbar beside the Code/Preview tabs
- Grok: on HTML code blocks, and in the preview panel
Click it. The pushd popup opens with your page loaded and a site name already suggested. Change the name if you want (the name becomes part of your URL unless it’s taken), then hit Deploy.
First deploys can take a minute or two. Then: 🎉 Live! - your URL, ready to copy, open, or share with the built-in QR code and WhatsApp/X/LinkedIn/email links.
That’s the product
Two things worth knowing from day one:
- Same name = same site. Push again with the same site name and your existing URL updates in place. New name = brand-new site. (More on updating.)
- Your AI not supported? Open the popup and drop any HTML file, ZIP or whole folder straight in - or paste HTML. Same deploy, same result. (More on deploying.)
Where next
- Deploying in depth - file drops, site names, the overwrite checkbox
- SEO & sharing - title, social preview and favicon before you share the link
- Troubleshooting - if anything above didn’t behave