The deploy-it skill: turn your file into a link you can text
TL;DR
The deploy-it skill walks you from a file on your laptop to a real public link, free, in about ten minutes. It explains the GitHub step in plain English, gives you one instruction at a time through Vercel signup, and fixes the three things that actually break. It also saves every live link to a running list of what you've shipped.
You built something and it only exists on your laptop. Nobody can open it, so it doesn't count yet. The deploy-it skill gets it onto a real web address for free, in about ten minutes, without you learning anything about servers.
This is the step most beginners stall on. The word repository does it. So the skill explains the chain first in plain words: Git saves versions of your file, GitHub holds those saves online, and Vercel reads from GitHub and turns your file into a real page. Then it runs the commands for you and clicks you through the signups one instruction at a time.
It's free and public in our freeskills repo. The rule it runs on is simple: ugly but live beats pretty but local.
Walks you from a file on your laptop to a free public link, one step at a time.
Install the deploy-it skill
Clone the repo once, then copy this one folder into your Claude Code skills directory.
bashgit clone https://github.com/duncan-buildroom/freeskills.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r freeskills/deploy-it ~/.claude/skills/Start a new Claude Code session, or restart the one you have. That's the install. No API keys, nothing to configure.
Run it the first time
Type /deploy-it. It looks in ~/sites/ and ~/games/ for folders with an index.html and asks which one you're shipping. If your thing lives somewhere else, tell it the path.
Then it sets expectations out loud: this is free, no card, and you won't write any code. It turns your folder into a Git repo, puts it on GitHub, and walks you through Vercel one step at a time, waiting for you to say done before the next one. A good first result is a link ending in .vercel.app that you can paste back into the chat, plus a new line in ~/my-links.md with today's date, the name, the live URL, and the local folder.
Ship the thing you already built
The simplest run. Point it at what you made and let it drive.
/deploy-it
I built [what it is, e.g. a landing page for my cleaning business]. It's at [~/sites/your-folder or wherever the file lives].
I [do / don't] have a GitHub account yet.
Go one step at a time and tell me exactly what to click.Fix a live page that came out blank
This one happens to nearly everyone on the first deploy, and it's almost always the file name or an extra folder. Say what you see on the screen and nothing else.
My site deployed but the page is [blank / showing a list of file names] at [paste your .vercel.app link].
The folder is [~/sites/your-folder].
Tell me what's wrong and fix it, then push it again.Send the link to one person tonight
The deploy isn't the finish line. Opening it on your phone and sending it to a human is. Ask for both before you close the session.
It's live. Before we stop:
1. Give me a short list of what to look for when I open this on my phone.
2. Write me one casual message I can text to [who you're sending it to, e.g. my sister] with the link. Nothing salesy.
3. Show me what got added to ~/my-links.md.The 60-second version
Sixty seconds on what this skill does and why getting the link matters more than the build.
- 1Hook: there's a brand new free Claude skill that takes you from a file sitting on your laptop to a real link you can text someone, in about ten minutes, for free.
- 2Mechanism: you point it at the folder sitting on your laptop, and it walks you through GitHub and a free host one click at a time, explaining every scary word before you meet it. It already knows the three things that break for beginners and checks all three. When something looks off you just tell it what's on your screen and it translates.
- 3Transformation: you've got an address anyone in the world can open, and a running list of everything you've shipped. In three months that list is your answer to what have you actually built.
- 4Close: free, along with 54 other skills in the repo. Having something worth shipping every single week is the harder half, and that's the path inside Claude Code Club. $9 a month, link's below.
Tonight: install it, run it on the thing you already made, and text the link to one person. Not for feedback. The rep is the sending.
Common questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You'll click through two websites and answer prompts. Claude runs the commands for you and translates anything scary on the screen.
Is hosting really free?
Yes. Vercel's Hobby plan is the free one, and it asks for your name, not a card. If you want a nicer web address later, a custom domain runs about $12 a year and Vercel walks you through it.
What if I don't have a GitHub account?
That's a two-minute signup: email, username, password. The skill walks you through it as part of the run.
I pushed a change and the live site looks the same. What happened?
Usually one of two things. Either the change was never committed, or your browser is showing the cached page. The skill checks both and has you open the link in a private window to see the real version.
What if I haven't built anything yet?
Then start with one of the build skills in the same repo, like first-website, landing-page, link-in-bio, sales-page, or simple-game, and come back here when there's a file to ship.
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