Free website with a real URL in 10 minutes: QuickShare explained

You can put a real, public HTTPS URL in front of a website in about ten minutes without deploying anything or renting a server. The trick is a tunnel: your site runs locally on your Mac, and a secure connection exposes it at a real address anyone can open. ReDock — a free-while-in-alpha native macOS app — calls this QuickShare, and you get unlimited unlisted QuickShare URLs at no cost, backed by Cloudflare tunnels.

What QuickShare gives you

QuickShare turns a site running on your machine into a public link. The URL is a random subdomain of redock.xyz (something like soft-harbor-42.redock.xyz), it’s HTTPS, and it works from any device — a client’s laptop, your phone, a coworker across the country. No deploy step, no build, no upload. You’re showing the exact site running on your Mac, live.

Because the links are unlisted and randomly named, they aren’t discoverable — you share the URL with whoever needs it, and no one else stumbles onto it. You can make as many as you want.

The ten-minute path

Here’s the whole flow from nothing to a shareable link:

1. Install ReDock. It’s a native macOS app (macOS 12+). The install guide covers it.
2. Create or import a site. WordPress, headless WordPress, Astro, Next.js, Node, Bun, plain PHP — ReDock runs each locally at https://name.test with a real, locally trusted certificate. No terminal. The first-site guide walks through it.
3. Click QuickShare. ReDock opens a Cloudflare tunnel and hands you a public redock.xyz URL.
4. Send the link. That’s it. The person on the other end sees your local site as it is right now.

Most of the ten minutes is the install and creating the site. The share itself is a click.

How the tunnel behaves (the honest details)

Tunnels have lifecycle, and it’s worth knowing exactly how ReDock handles it so nothing surprises you:

• Stop sharing, and the URL goes dark. The link stops resolving. Your site keeps running locally; it’s just no longer public.
• Stop the site, and the tunnel parks — then resumes with it. You don’t lose your setup when you pause work. Bring the site back up and the share comes back too.
• Named URLs persist. Beyond random QuickShare links, ReDock’s free tier includes three named redock.xyz subdomains you choose. Those stay stable across sessions — unlike free tunnel tools that rotate your URL every restart, so the link you sent yesterday still works today. The sharing docs cover both kinds.

This is genuinely free: unlimited random QuickShare URLs plus three named subdomains, on ReDock’s free early-access tier.

QuickShare vs. deploying

Sharing a local site and deploying one are different jobs. QuickShare shows live, in-progress work — your Mac is the server, changes appear instantly, and the link dies when you’re done. It’s ideal for review, feedback, and demos. See how to show a client a WIP site for that workflow.

Deploying is for finished, always-on sites. When your Mac shouldn’t have to stay awake, build the static output and push it to Cloudflare Workers’ free tier — deploy a website for free covers that path, and free staging environments sits in between.

FAQ

Is the QuickShare URL really public and HTTPS?

Yes. It’s a real, publicly reachable redock.xyz subdomain served over HTTPS through a Cloudflare tunnel. Anyone with the link can open it from any device.

How is this different from ngrok’s free URLs?

Free tunnel tools typically rotate your URL on every restart. ReDock gives you unlimited random QuickShare links plus three named redock.xyz subdomains that stay stable across sessions, so a link you shared keeps working.

What happens when I close my laptop?

The tunnel parks. When you bring the site back up, the share resumes with it. If you stop sharing deliberately, the URL goes dark while your local site keeps running.

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