make useful things for your business.
the documents a business sends outward — proposals, pitches, launches — where the page is doing commercial work.
what can i publish to sell, launch, or operate?
01 / what this isthese are the pages that leave your company: a proposal a client opens on their phone, a launch page, a one-pager that has to look considered when it lands. what they share is that someone outside the conversation reads it and forms an opinion — which is why an attachment is the wrong shape for the job and a link is the right one.
a pdf arrives as a download, opens in whichever reader the recipient happens to have, and reflows badly on a phone. a url opens instantly, looks the same everywhere, and can be revised after you send it. for anything that changes mid-conversation — scope, pricing, dates — that last difference is the whole argument: you update the page and the link you already sent shows the new version.
each recipe here starts from a prompt that interviews you for the specifics rather than handing you blanks to fill, so the page argues your case with your numbers in it. and because the output is one self-contained html file, there is no theme to pick, no site to maintain, and nothing to un-publish afterwards except the page itself.
the honest constraint: a published page is public to anyone holding the url. links get forwarded, and a forwarded link works. for most proposals that is fine and occasionally useful — but it is worth deciding deliberately, before you send something you would not have emailed.
questions.
03 / questionswhy send a link instead of a pdf?
because you can fix it after you send it. a pdf is final the moment it leaves, so a changed price means a second attachment and a conversation about which one is current. a page keeps one address, and the version at that address is always the current one.
can i update the page after the client has opened it?
yes. republish over the same url — through the manage token you got at publish, or from your account if the page is claimed — and the link keeps working. nothing about the url changes, so you never have to send a correction.
can i use my own domain?
yes, on a paid plan. pages live on htmlshare.net urls by default, and a pro account can point its own domain at a page, so a client-facing page can sit on your domain. free and anonymous pages stay on htmlshare.net.
will it look like a template?
only if you ask for one. the page is generated from your brief each time, so two proposals built from the same recipe do not come out looking like the same document — and you can tell the assistant to match your colours, your typeface and your tone in the same message.