An anonymous deploy path with no account behind it turns into a phishing farm if you ship it and walk away. Netlify Drop has been running one since 2013.
Who is AI really for?
@biilmann shares why Netlify is betting on a future where AI helps people build for other people, not one where agents become the primary customers.
One thing to know about private Netlify projects: they reject unauthenticated requests.
So if Stripe, Slack, or anything else needs to call your project, make it public first.
Netlify Drop started with a simple question:
What's the fastest way to go from front-end code to a live URL?
@biilmann shares how that idea became BitBalloon in 2013 and eventually evolved into Netlify Drop.
In November 2021, someone posted Netlify Drop to Hacker News. Not us, and there was no launch behind it. 349 points.
The comments kept circling back to PHP shared hosting: drag a folder into FileZilla, hit refresh, site is live. @biilmann built Drop on that instinct in the
