Lesson 1525 of 1570
AI and Shipping to Vercel Free: From Localhost to The Internet
Vercel's free tier puts your AI-built site on a real URL in 60 seconds. Learn the deploy.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2Vercel
- 3deploy
- 4Next.js
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Section 1
The big idea
Code that only runs on localhost does not exist to anyone but you. Vercel ships any Next.js or static site to a real URL on a free plan that handles real traffic. The deploy takes 60 seconds.
Some examples
- Ask Claude how to push a Next.js project from Cursor to GitHub to Vercel in three commands.
- Ask ChatGPT what counts as the free tier in 2026 (spoiler: more than enough).
- Ask Gemini how to add a free .vercel.app subdomain you control.
- Ask Perplexity for the difference between Vercel, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages for teens.
Try it!
Take your simplest project. Push to GitHub. Click Import in Vercel. Share the URL with one friend tonight.
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