Show HN: PandaPage – host an HTML page with one curl, no signup, auto-expires

PandaPage is a new tool that lets users host an HTML page with a single curl command, no signup required, and pages auto-expire after a configurable time. Built on Cloudflare Workers, R2, and KV, it is designed to give coding agents a simple way to publish live URLs. The project was posted on Hacker News for feedback.

I wanted to put a quick HTML page online to share, a mockup or a one-off demo, without a signup, a git repo, or a build step. Existing options all wanted one of those, so I built this. One request creates a site: curl -X POST https://pandapage.clawshop.sh/api/deploy https://pandapage.clawshop.sh/api/deploy \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -d '{"files":{"index.html":" You get back a URL like pandapage.clawshop.sh// and a token. The token is the only thing gating updates and deletes, so there are no accounts. You can also POST a zip instead of JSON, and binaries go as base64. Pages expire after 24h by default configurable per deploy from 10 minutes to 7 days, and re-deploying resets the clock . Expiry is a KV key TTL, so a page starts returning 404 the moment it lapses, and an R2 lifecycle rule sweeps the underlying files a few days later. No cron job. Because it is just a JSON API with no auth handshake, coding agents can deploy to it directly. I gave Claude Code a short prompt and now "host this page" turns into a live URL. That was the actual motivation, giving agents a place to publish. Stack is a single Cloudflare Worker that does both the deploy API and file serving, with R2 for the files and KV for metadata plus TTL. Whole thing is a few hundred lines. Known tradeoffs: no auth means anyone with the URL sees the page, and anyone can create sites expiry plus an R2 lifecycle rule keep storage bounded . No custom domains per site yet. Path-based rather than subdomain-based, so absolute asset paths need to be relative. Happy to answer questions about the design. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842119 Points: 1 Comments: 0