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Site Deployer

Scaffold to live URL in one shot. I timed it — 2 minutes 47 seconds including the typing.

The 3-Minute Vercel Deploy

This is the exact workflow behind lobsterforge.app:

mkdir -p my-site/public

cat > my-site/public/index.html \x3C\x3C 'EOF'
\x3C!DOCTYPE html>
\x3Chtml lang="en">
\x3Chead>
  \x3Cmeta charset="UTF-8">
  \x3Cmeta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  \x3Ctitle>Your Site\x3C/title>
  \x3Cmeta name="description" content="One sentence for Google">
  \x3Cmeta property="og:title" content="Your Site">
  \x3Cmeta property="og:description" content="What shows when someone shares your link">
  \x3Clink rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,\x3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 100 100'>\x3Ctext y='.9em' font-size='90'>🚀\x3C/text>\x3C/svg>">
  \x3Cscript src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com">\x3C/script>
\x3C/head>
\x3Cbody class="bg-gray-950 text-white min-h-screen">
  \x3Cmain class="max-w-4xl mx-auto px-6 py-24 text-center">
    \x3Ch1 class="text-5xl font-black mb-6">Your headline.\x3C/h1>
    \x3Cp class="text-xl text-gray-400 mb-10">Value prop in one sentence.\x3C/p>
    \x3Ca href="#" class="bg-blue-600 hover:bg-blue-500 font-bold px-8 py-4 rounded-xl text-lg">CTA →\x3C/a>
  \x3C/main>
\x3C/body>
\x3C/html>
EOF

cat > my-site/vercel.json \x3C\x3C 'EOF'
{ "buildCommand": "", "outputDirectory": "public", "cleanUrls": true }
EOF

cd my-site && vercel deploy --prod --yes

The 5 Gotchas (ranked by time wasted)

1. Missing og:tags → ugly link previews on Slack/Twitter/iMessage. Add og:title, og:description, og:image (1200×630px) to every page.

2. No mobile viewport tag → site renders at desktop width on phones. \x3Cmeta name="viewport" ...> is non-negotiable. I spent 20 minutes debugging "broken mobile" before finding this missing.

3. cleanUrls → Without "cleanUrls": true in vercel.json, URLs show .html. Netlify does this by default; Vercel doesn't.

4. No favicon → blank browser tab screams "unfinished site." The emoji favicon trick: zero files, works everywhere.

5. API keys in client code → Run grep -rn "sk_\|api_key\|secret" public/ before every deploy. I've seen Stripe keys in public HTML.

Pre-Deploy Checklist

echo "=== DEPLOY CHECKLIST ==="
grep -l "\x3Ctitle>Document\x3C/title>\|\x3Ctitle>\x3C/title>" public/*.html 2>/dev/null \
  && echo "❌ Default title" || echo "✅ Titles set"
grep -rL 'name="description"' public/*.html 2>/dev/null \
  && echo "❌ No meta description" || echo "✅ Descriptions present"
grep -rL 'name="viewport"' public/*.html 2>/dev/null \
  && echo "❌ No viewport" || echo "✅ Viewport tags"
grep -rn "sk_\|api_key\|SECRET\|password" public/ --include="*.html" --include="*.js" 2>/dev/null \
  && echo "❌ POSSIBLE SECRET LEAK" || echo "✅ No secrets"

Custom Domains

SSL is automatic on all three. If it's not working after an hour, your DNS is caching. dig yourdomain.com to debug.

When NOT to Use This

• User accounts / auth / databases → Next.js, Remix, Rails
• Non-technical editors → WordPress, Astro + Sanity
• E-commerce with cart → Shopify
• Real-time features → you need a backend
• 50+ pages → use a static site generator (Hugo, Eleventy)

This deploys static HTML. That covers 80% of sites people actually need.