sher: The Unglamorous CLI That Every Developer Needs

You haven't heard of sher, but it solves a daily developer pain point nobody talks about: instantly sharing local development previews.

The Problem Everyone Has

You're building a feature locally. Your client, designer, or teammate needs to see it. Your options suck:

• Deploy to Vercel preview (requires GitHub push, takes time)
• Set up ngrok (complex config, ugly URLs, often breaks)
• Screen share or record a video (static, not interactive)

sher generates instant preview URLs for your local dev server in seconds. It works with Vite, Next.js, Astro, and other frameworks without any configuration.

Why It's Better

Unlike ngrok, sher is purpose-built for web development previews. No tunneling complexity, no custom domains to manage. Unlike Vercel previews, no git commits required. Just run sher and get a shareable URL.

The tool has video documentation and a freemium model that's generous enough for most use cases. It's exactly the kind of boring but essential utility that gets quietly adopted by thousands of developers because it just works.

The Hidden Value

This is the type of tool that saves 30 seconds dozens of times per day. Those seconds compound into real productivity gains. More importantly, it removes friction from feedback loops — the easier it is to share work-in-progress, the faster you iterate.

sher won't revolutionize how you build software, but it'll make your daily workflow smoother. Sometimes that's exactly what you need.

Try sher for instant development previews.