A home for the HTML files you (and your AI) keep generating. Drag a file in, get a link, edit it in the browser — same URL forever.
"The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML." Hacker News, 1,064 points
For the people who never needed React in the first place — and for the AI assistants who keep handing you a single .html file with nowhere to put it.
You asked Claude for a pitch deck and got back a 1.5 MB HTML file. You wrote a one-pager. You generated a dashboard. You exported a PRD as HTML.
Now what? Vercel wants a git repo. GitHub Pages wants a workflow. Drive doesn't render. Email won't open it. You upload it somewhere, share the link, and ten minutes later notice a typo — and the link is already in someone's inbox.
Hostus is the missing layer between I have an HTML and here's the URL.
Open any document you own and the editable parts come alive — headings, paragraphs, table cells, list items. Click. Type. Save. The URL doesn't change. The person you sent it to doesn't know you fixed it.
It's how docs should work when the doc is just HTML.
You ask Claude to generate a pitch in HTML for an investor. You drop it into Hostus, copy the link, paste it into Slack. Six hours later you notice the MRR figure is outdated. You open the doc, click the number, type the new one, hit save. Same link. Updated content. The investor reloads the page and sees v2.
That's the workflow Hostus is built around.
Drag any .html into your dashboard or into a folder. Up to 5 MB per file. Live in under 10 seconds.
Public link, or invite-only. Invite links go out to specific people who sign in with magic link — no account creation friction, no password.
Open the live URL while signed in as owner. An "Edit" overlay appears. Click into any text. Save. Done.
The founder, PM, or consultant who lives between Claude / ChatGPT / v0 and a Slack thread with investors, clients, or co-founders. The person who generates 3–10 HTML artifacts a week — pitches, PRDs, dashboards, mockups — and needs to share them like docs, not deploys.
If that's you, Hostus is built around your exact week.
The web got heavy because we forgot what it was for. Most documents — a one-pager, a pitch, a brief, a report — don't need a build pipeline, a CDN config, a 200KB JS bundle, or a deploy that fails six months later because Node moved on.
They need to load fast, render anywhere, stay accessible by default, and live at a stable URL.
That's HTML. It's been there the whole time.
Hostus is infrastructure for that idea — and for the moment in 2026 where every AI assistant in your life can output one in two seconds.
We cut these on purpose. The product should do one thing extremely well first.
The next release turns Hostus into the default destination for AI-generated HTML, in three layers:
POST /api/v1/documents with a Bearer key.
Install once, Claude learns to publish to your Hostus.
hostus.upload, hostus.list, hostus.update — natively in Claude Desktop.
One product, two billing rhythms. Cancel anytime. Same features either way — the annual plan just gets you a deep discount for committing.
Pay as you go. Switch to annual whenever you want.
Equivalent to $4.17/month. Best value if you're shipping HTML weekly.
Free during the open beta — drop a file at the top of this page, no card needed. You'll only pay if and when billing turns on.
You don't, really. Drop an HTML file at the top of this page, give us your email, and we send you a magic link. Click it and you're in your dashboard with the doc already there. No password, no separate signup form.
You can upload a build output, but that's not what Hostus is optimized for. The product is built around single HTML files — the kind a person writes or an AI generates. For SPAs, Vercel and Netlify are great.
Tiiny is great for drag-and-drop static hosting. Neocities is a cultural project for personal websites. Hostus is built around editing the live document — same link, in-browser, owner-only — and around the workflow of someone shipping AI-generated HTML weekly. Different shape of problem.
Your files are .html. We make them downloadable. No proprietary format, no lock-in.
Private docs require a magic-link sign-in tied to a grant we issue when you accept an invite. Each document lives on its own isolated subdomain (<id>.v.hostus.io) so even the HTML running on one doc can't see another.
Free, with no card required, for the duration of the open beta. When pricing turns on, the options above are what you'll see: $9.99/month or $49.99/year. Beta users get fair notice — not the morning of.
Viewing works everywhere. The inline editor is desktop-only in v1.
No account first. Drop a file, give us your email, click the link we send.
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