The Localhost Sharing Tool Everyone Needs

You haven't heard of sher, but you should have. While developers pay for ngrok subscriptions or wait for Vercel preview deployments, sher quietly provides instant preview URLs for local development projects.

The Problem It Solves

Every vibecoding developer hits this: you're iterating fast on a local project and need to show a client or teammate what you've built. The options are usually:

• Deploy to Vercel and wait
• Pay for ngrok Pro to get decent URLs
• Create a throwaway GitHub repo just for a preview
• Send screenshots like it's 2015

Sher cuts through this friction with one command that generates a shareable URL for your local dev server.

Why It's Underrated

Sher works with popular frameworks out of the box — Vite, Next.js, Astro — and provides both image and video documentation. It's freemium pricing hits the sweet spot for indie developers, and the setup is genuinely zero-config.

But here's what makes it special: it's optimized for the rapid prototyping workflow that defines vibecoding. When you're building fast and showing progress frequently, instant preview URLs become essential infrastructure.

Better Than the Alternatives

Compared to ngrok's subscription model or Vercel's deployment overhead, sher is purpose-built for the "show, don't tell" development cycle. No account setup, no deployment pipeline, no waiting.

It's the kind of unglamorous but essential tool that makes development workflows smoother — exactly what vibecoders need when they're shipping fast and iterating frequently.

Try sher the next time you need to share a local project. Your clients will wonder how you got so fast at demos.