Why I’m Building 99helpers to Host Any Website or File in Mere Seconds

AI Summary: This article explains why the founder of 99helpers is building a file and website hosting service designed around speed. It argues that the AI boom has given everyone the ability to create documents, CVs, portfolios, websites and other artifacts easily — but that the last step, getting those results online and shareable, is still slow and requires technical knowledge. 99helpers closes that gap: drag in a file, name the link, and it is online in seconds. The article gives examples of what can be shared, including static websites, CVs and any of over 200 supported file types, and compares the approach with traditional hosting, developer platforms such as Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages and Cloudflare, and the built-in sharing offered by Claude and ChatGPT. It closes with the guiding principles behind the product.

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The AI boom (and I’ll call it a boom), must be one of the greatest advances in humankind. It’s on par with the industrial revolution, the oil boom, and for more recent comparisons, with the internet and the smartphone. It started with AI answering questions in a chat, and it quickly moved on to AI creating all kinds of documents, files, websites, and artifacts that typically were created by skilled people. In fact, it’s moved on to having AI agents continuously working on stuff (and again creating more files, and more artifacts).

So now, everyone can create stuff easily. It’s like everyone has a superpower. Need a CV? AI can create that. Need a portfolio web page? AI can create that. Need a personal website? AI can create that.

But now that we have these great documents, files, websites and web pages. What do we do with them? Right now, they sit in your AI chat, or on your local computer. That’s because the last step is still difficult and time consuming to solve hosting the results and making it available on the web/internet.

Yes, it’s possible to host something, but it’s not easy and it takes longer than it should.

That’s where 99helpers comes in. 99helpers lets you host a file, a CV, a document, a web page, or a website very easily online, and shareable with a simple link. This takes mere seconds to do.

These are the steps to put something online:

Drag in a file
Name the link that you’d like
That’s it, it’s online!

Now imagine, millions of people creating amazing content, and then being able to share it instantly!

That’s why I’m building 99helpers.

Examples of Things you can Share Online

Here are some examples of things you can share online:

Host a (static) website online: Let AI create a website for you and then share it online easily. All the website needs are an index.html file to know that’s the starting point. You have lots of flexibility to style it, make it helpful, etc.
Host your CV online: Create your own CV, or let AI help you create a CV, and then when you’re done, put it online at 99helpers. That way, you can easily share your CV with a link (or URL).
Just a convenient share of a random file: It really doesn’t matter what kind of file you share. It can be anything. In fact, 99helpers supports over 200 file types.

What About Existing Options?

There are other ways of hosting files. But most of them have some down sides.

Traditional hosting: This works (as we’ve been hosting things for many years already). However, it’s slow to setup, and it requires some knowledge to use. AI lets you create content easily, without too much knowledge, so hosting shouldn’t be a hurdle.

Options such as Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, are all excellent technical options. But they’re all time consuming and difficult to setup. 99helpers is literally just drag and drop a file, and done, it’s online.

Options provided by Claude and ChatGPT are still limited in their features, and often you just don’t want to host your content on there because it’s too obvious that it’s the product of AI (which is not a bad thing, just not something you want people to know).

99helpers Guiding Principles

99helpers will:

Allow you to share files in seconds
Make it super easy to share files
Give you options to edit or update those files