How to Put Your ChatGPT App Online
ChatGPT just built you something. Maybe it’s a budget tracker you described in a sentence, a quiz for your students, or a commission calculator that finally does what the spreadsheet never quite managed. It’s right there in the Canvas panel, working perfectly.
Now you want to share it.
And here’s where it falls apart.
The problem with ChatGPT Canvas
ChatGPT is genuinely remarkable at building interactive tools. But everything it builds lives inside your chat window — and only your chat window. You can’t send someone a link to a ChatGPT Canvas app. You can’t embed it anywhere. You can’t open it on your phone without logging into your account. The app exists, but it exists in a sealed room.
Your options right now look like this:
Share a screenshot. A screenshot of an interactive calculator is just a picture of a calculator. It doesn’t add up your numbers. Your colleague can’t use it.
Copy the code and… figure it out. ChatGPT will show you the underlying code if you ask. But then what? Pasting raw HTML and JavaScript somewhere and getting a working website out the other side involves GitHub, configuration files, build steps, and the kind of vocabulary — “deployment,” “repository,” “CI/CD” — that most people have never needed to learn and shouldn’t have to.
Keep it to yourself. The silent option. You built something useful and it quietly disappears when you close the tab.
None of these feel right, because none of them are right. You built something. It should be shareable.
The better way: connect Deplixo to ChatGPT
Here’s what most people don’t know: you can add Deplixo as an app inside ChatGPT, and from that moment on, getting something live is just part of the conversation. You tell ChatGPT what you want to build and add “put it online” — and it builds it, publishes it, and hands you a working URL. No copying. No pasting. No leaving ChatGPT.
ChatGPT builds it. You paste it. Deplixo puts it online. No Git, no terminal, no config files.
(That’s not quite right either — the best version skips the pasting entirely. More on that in a moment.)
One-time setup: add Deplixo in ChatGPT
This part sounds more technical than it is. You’re going to go into ChatGPT’s settings, click a few things, and paste one URL. You’ll only do this once.
Step 1: Open ChatGPT settings.
In ChatGPT, click your profile picture in the top-right corner, then click Settings.
Step 2: Find the Connectors section.
In the left sidebar, look for Connectors (or Apps & Connectors, depending on your version). Click it.
Step 3: Add Deplixo.
Click Add connector or Browse, then search for Deplixo. Click the + button to add it.
That’s it. You’re done.
If you’d like step-by-step screenshots, the full setup guide lives at /guides/deploy-from-chatgpt/.
What happens next
Once the connector is added, you just talk to ChatGPT normally — except now you can add “put it online” to any request.
Here’s what that looks like:
You: Build me a tip calculator. Let me enter the bill amount and choose a tip percentage. Show the total clearly. Put it online.
ChatGPT writes the code, sends it to Deplixo, and responds with:
- A live URL — click it and your app is working on the real internet, right now
- A claim link — click it to save the app to your Deplixo dashboard if you want to manage it later
Your app is live. You never left the conversation.
Send that URL to anyone — your team, your clients, your family. They click it, they see it working. They don’t need a ChatGPT account. They don’t need a Deplixo account. They just see your app.
Keep improving it without starting over
This is where the connector approach really earns its place. Stay in the conversation and keep going:
You: Can you add a split-the-bill feature? And make the design a bit warmer.
ChatGPT updates the app and publishes the new version — to the same URL. Anyone who already has the link sees the changes immediately. No new setup. No second link to send around. No telling people to “refresh and try again.”
You’re not just sharing a finished thing. You’re having a conversation about your app, and every change goes live as you make it.
Your app saves data, too
Most apps built by AI forget everything the moment you close the tab. Apps on Deplixo don’t. Every published app automatically gets access to deplixo.db — a built-in storage layer that persists data between sessions with no configuration required.
Just tell ChatGPT “make sure the data saves between sessions” and it handles the rest. Your habit tracker remembers your habits. Your expense log remembers your expenses. Your classroom quiz remembers your students’ answers.
This is one of the details that separates Deplixo from a basic file host. The apps don’t just live online — they work like real apps.
What about the audience who doesn’t know what code is?
That’s exactly who this is for. Teachers, accountants, managers, small business owners — people who describe problems in plain language and let ChatGPT figure out the technical side. The connector approach means you never see the code at all. ChatGPT produces it; Deplixo runs it. You’re just the person with the idea.
If you’ve ever thought “I’m not a developer, I can’t do this kind of thing” — you’re already doing it. You’ve been describing software to an AI and watching it appear. Getting it online is the last step, and now that step is one sentence.
If you’d rather do it manually
If you’re not ready to set up the connector, or if you already have code from ChatGPT that you want to get online right now, there’s a simpler fallback: go to deplixo.com/launch, paste the code ChatGPT gave you, and click publish. You’ll get a live URL in a few seconds.
It’s a perfectly good option — especially for a one-off. But once you’ve tried telling ChatGPT “put it online” and watching it happen, the manual route starts to feel like the long way around.
How long does it stay live?
Apps published without an account are live for 30 days. For most sharing purposes — prototypes, demos, one-off tools — that’s more than enough.
If you want to keep an app permanently, click the claim link ChatGPT gives you to save it to your dashboard. From there you can upgrade to the Personal plan ($3/month) for a clean, shareable URL like deplixo.com/yourname/your-app instead of the random-character version.
But you don’t need any of that to get started. No account. No credit card. No decisions. Just tell ChatGPT what to build.
Put it online now
If you build something in ChatGPT today, you have a real option for sharing it that didn’t exist before. You don’t have to screenshot it, explain the limitations, or let it disappear when you close the tab.
Set up the Deplixo connector in ChatGPT once — the full guide is at /guides/deploy-from-chatgpt/ — and from that point on, getting an app live is part of how you build. Tell ChatGPT what you want, tell it to put it online, and send the URL to whoever needs it.
No Git. No terminal. No account required. You describe something, ChatGPT builds it, Deplixo puts it on the internet.
You’re already a developer. You just needed a way to ship.
If you’re coming from Claude rather than ChatGPT, the same approach works — see How to Share a Claude Artifact with Your Team. And if you want to see what kinds of things people are building, 10 Useful Apps You Can Build with AI in 5 Minutes is a good place to browse for ideas.