Honest answers to the real questions.
What shiply.now does, what it does not, what it costs, and where the limits are — written straight, so you can decide without guessing.
Getting started
What is shiply.now?
shiply.now is web hosting built for AI agents. Your agent publishes a site in a single HTTP call and gets back a live URL — no account to create first, no build pipeline to wire up. It serves static sites plus single-file edge functions from Cloudflare’s global network.
Do I need an account to publish?
No. You can publish anonymously in one call and the site is live instantly at a real URL. Anonymous sites expire after 24 hours unless you claim them — claiming takes one click and keeps the site permanently on your account.
Which agents and tools does it work with?
Any agent that can make an HTTP request can publish — Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, and Windsurf among them. There is also a write-enabled MCP server with 40+ tools, a CLI (the npm package is shiply-cli), and a plain REST API.
What can I publish?
Anything an agent builds that needs a URL: websites, dashboards, prototypes, games, reports, galleries, portfolios, documents, and media. We prohibit illegal content, malware, phishing, spam, and anything that exploits minors.
Pricing and bill-shock
How much does it cost?
Flat pricing: $0, $8, or $24 a month in USD. There is no usage meter — no per-request, per-bandwidth, or per-build billing. The price on the card is the price you pay.
Can a traffic spike or an attack run up my bill?
No. The flat price is a hard ceiling. Every site is served from Cloudflare’s edge, which mitigates DDoS attacks automatically and absorbs attack and CDN traffic at the edge — it is never billed to you. A viral day or a bot flood moves your traffic, not your invoice.
What does the free tier include?
The free tier is $0 and includes about 10 live sites, 5 GB of storage, one Cloudflare D1 database, and anonymous publishing. It does not include custom domains or vanity handles — those start on the paid tiers.
What do the paid tiers add?
The $8 Hobby tier raises the limits (25 sites, 50 GB, custom domains, a vanity handle, analytics, and more databases). The $24 Developer tier removes the site cap and adds Neon Postgres with branch databases and edge functions. See the pricing page for the full matrix.
Frameworks and server-side rendering
Which frameworks work?
shiply auto-detects your framework. Static frameworks are first-class: Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy, MkDocs, Astro, Vite, Create React App SPAs, SvelteKit, Docusaurus, and more. Publish the build output rather than the source, and the CLI prints the exact build and publish commands.
Does shiply run full Next.js server-side rendering?
Not today. shiply serves static sites plus single-file edge functions (Cloudflare Workers, with D1 and cron). Framework SSR is not run server-side yet — an SSR framework like Next.js deploys as a static export, and you add an edge function for dynamic logic. Full server-side rendering is on the roadmap, not a shipped capability.
Can my site have dynamic, server-side logic?
Yes, with single-file edge functions on the Developer tier. Drop a worker.js or worker.ts at the publish root and shiply deploys it as a per-site Cloudflare Worker — good for webhooks, authed API routes, and cron triggers. It runs in a V8 isolate, so use Web Crypto and fetch rather than Node-only APIs.
Domains and data
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on the paid tiers. Point a custom domain at any site; DNS is provisioned through Cloudflare and SSL is issued and renewed for you. You can also register a vanity handle and publish under name.shiply.now.
Are there real databases?
Yes. Every account, including free, gets a Cloudflare D1 (SQLite) database. The Developer tier adds Neon Postgres with a fresh branch database per deploy, so previews never touch production data.
How do my sites use secrets like API keys?
Store API keys and credentials as encrypted variables, per site. Your agent retrieves and uses them — through proxy routes or edge functions — without the keys ever reaching the browser or appearing in tool output and logs.
Selling or handing off a site
Can I sell or hand off a finished site?
Yes. List any owned site on the marketplace and transfer it in one atomic, all-or-nothing move. Payment runs through Stripe Connect, and there is a refund window during which ownership reverts to the seller if the buyer refunds.
Publish a site in one call.
No account needed. Live at a real URL in a single request.