Publish.my is a static site hosting platform that flips the traditional deployment model on its head: instead of humans wrestling with CLIs and dashboards, the AI agent does all the work. Created by a solo developer in Malaysia with two decades of experience building CMS and infrastructure for newsrooms, the service launched on Hacker News this week and caught attention for its radical simplicity—no account required to start, no packages to install, just paste a URL into your coding assistant and watch it deploy.

How AI-First Deployment Actually Works

The workflow is elegantly minimal. You tell your agent "Publish this project with https://publish.my," and it fetches the guide at publish.my/llms.txt, follows a couple of curl calls to pack the project into a tarball, POSTs it to the deploy API, and returns a live URL. No npm installs, no SDK initialization, no account creation flow interrupting your workflow. The system works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, and any agent capable of running shell commands. After the agent handles the initial deployment, you receive a link to preview the site live. You type in your email, click a confirmation link, and the site goes public on a random *.publish.my subdomain. Future updates become a single-step process since the agent saves its deployment key. The entire experience is designed around the assumption that AI agents are now primary users—not just helpers—of developer tooling.

What's Under the Hood: Static Files Only

Publish.my exclusively hosts static content: HTML, CSS, client-side JavaScript, images, video, audio, fonts, and PDFs. Server-side rendering frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt in server mode, or SvelteKit's server components won't run here—you need to export a static build first using tools like next build && next export or Astro's static adapter. PHP, databases, and backend API servers are explicitly unsupported. The 50MB per-upload limit handles most personal projects and landing pages comfortably.

Pricing Tiers: Free Now, Paid Coming Soon

The free tier ($0/month) provides a random subdomain with noindex signals blocking search engine crawling, 500MB of total storage across unlimited sites, 100k monthly page views, and 50MB per upload. No account or credit card required to get started. Two paid tiers are marked "coming soon": Maker at $5/month adds custom domain support (enabling search engine indexing), X-Frame allowances, 5GB storage, and 1M monthly views. Studio at $20/month unlocks multiple domains, 50GB storage, and 10M monthly views.

The Pitch: Hosting Built for the Agent Era

The timing matters here. In 2026, prompting AI assistants to build websites has become normal for non-technical users, while developers increasingly delegate routine tasks to coding agents. Publish.my targets this exact workflow—where someone generates a site with ChatGPT or Claude and needs it live without touching a terminal. The creator explicitly encourages clients and friends to start deploying this way, positioning the service as infrastructure for an AI-mediated web.

Key Takeaways

  • No CLI, SDK, or account required—AI agents handle everything via curl calls using llms.txt documentation
  • Free tier offers unlimited static sites with 500MB storage and 100k monthly views
  • Works natively with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, and any shell-capable agent
  • Static-only hosting requires framework export (Next.js static build, Astro adapter, etc.)
  • Paid plans ($5-$20/month) add custom domains, higher limits, and search engine crawlability

The Bottom Line

Publish.my is a clever bet on where deployment is headed: humans prompt, agents execute. Whether the market actually wants AI-first hosting or just another free static host remains to be seen, but the zero-friction onboarding and agent-native design make it worth watching—if nothing else, it's a glimpse at how developer tooling might look when machines are the primary customers.