Here.now: Free instant web hosting for AI agents

What Here.now is good at

Here.now gives an AI agent a short path from a local file to a live URL. It can publish an HTML prototype, report, chart, PDF, image, video, or folder of static files.

The best use is a disposable review surface. Ask an agent to build a small interactive report, publish only the finished directory, and send the link to someone who should not need a local development setup.

An anonymous site needs no account and expires after 24 hours. This is useful for a quick review, but it is not private. Anyone with the URL can open it.

Install the agent skill

The official skill works with compatible coding agents:

npx skills add heredotnow/skill --skill here-now -g

It includes a publish.sh helper and instructions for the three-stage publish API. The helper needs curl, file, and jq.

Put only public-ready output in a clean directory, then ask the agent to publish that directory. For HTML, index.html should sit at its root. A successful anonymous publish returns a site URL, a one-time claim URL, and an expiry.

We used the anonymous API for a harmless static receipt with no credentials or personal data. The page returned the expected content and a 24-hour expiry. That checks the central upload and serve flow. We did not use a Swipe site, production system, or private file.

Inspect the directory before publishing

The bundled helper walks every file below the target directory. It does not apply .gitignore rules and does not automatically exclude .env, source maps, database files, or private notes.

Build or copy the finished files into a separate folder first:

review-site/
  index.html
  styles.css
  assets/

List that folder and search it for credentials before publishing. Do not point the helper at a repository root simply because the page lives there.

The helper writes anonymous claim details to .herenow/state.json in the working directory. Keep that file out of source control. The claim URL is shown only once and is effectively an ownership secret until the site is claimed.

Free and account-owned sites

Here.now documents four personal tiers: Anonymous, Free, Hobby, and Developer. Anonymous publishing and the Free plan cost nothing. The Free account currently includes permanent sites, 10 GB of shared storage, up to 500 sites, one custom domain, and basic Site Data. The public documentation lists limits for paid tiers but does not show their current prices, so check the dashboard before choosing one.

A signed-in site can also use a password or a restricted email allowlist. Workspace sites can default to members only. Set access before sharing anything that is not meant for the open web.

Here.now is still static hosting. Site Data adds small validated collections for forms, polls, and shared state, but it is not a general server runtime. Use a normal application host when you need server-side rendering, long-running jobs, private backend credentials, or a database with its own operational requirements.

What happens to uploaded data

Site files are stored in Cloudflare R2 and served through Cloudflare. Anonymous sites are deleted after 24 hours. Account-owned sites remain until deleted.

The service records paths, sizes, hashes, request paths, referrers, coarse geography, and privacy-preserving visitor signals. It says raw IP addresses are not exposed to site owners and uploaded content is not used to train AI models.

There is one AI-specific detail worth knowing. When automatic site metadata is enabled bounded excerpts from published files can be sent through OpenRouter to a Google model to create display names and descriptions. Set that metadata yourself when the page contains material you do not want sent for summarising. Workspace administrators can disable automatic AI metadata.

Updating and deleting

Claim an anonymous site before it expires if you need to keep it. Claimed and account-owned sites can be updated by slug, given a custom expiry, protected, or deleted.

The official helper is early software. An open issue currently reports that republishing an unchanged site can fail on macOS and leave a pending version. Keep the original output directory and check the returned site after every update.

Alternatives

Use a local development server when every reviewer is on your machine. Use Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, or GitHub Pages for a maintained site with a normal deployment history. Other instant hosts can upload one HTML file, but many lack an agent skill, claim flow, access controls, and account-owned updates.

Here.now fits best between those options: faster than setting up a deployment, more capable than sending a screenshot, and deliberately temporary when you stay anonymous.