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Your door to
the internet.

One folder on your computer. Anything you put inside comes out on the internet, with a link ready to send.

Download for macOS View source
brew install --cask jagenaujagenau/tap/dropcel

Free and open source. You'll need a Vercel account — the free one is fine.

Getting something online

It used to be a whole thing.

  1. First

    FTP

    1. Open an FTP client
    2. Find the host, user and password
    3. Dig for the right remote folder
    4. Drag the files across
    5. Wait
    6. Reload, and hope you got the right ones

    Six steps. Every time.

  2. Then

    Git

    1. Set up a repo
    2. Stage the files
    3. Write a commit message
    4. Push
    5. Wait for the build to go green

    Five steps. Every time.

  3. Now

    A folder

    1. Put it in

    One step. Once.

It's just a folder

It sits in your home directory like any other. Nothing to open, nothing to log into.

Nothing to set up.

Drop a project in

Drag it onto the window, or move it into the folder like any other file.

This is the only step there is.

It works out the rest

It reads the files and figures out how to build the thing. You don't tell it anything.

Same for the next one you drop in.

It goes online by itself

Your files upload and the site builds. You didn't press a thing.

Usually a few seconds.

You get a link

Already copied, ready to send. That's the part you were after.

Send it to anyone.

Edit it and it updates

Change a file and save. The live version catches up on its own, every time.

You never do this part again.

It waits when it should

No internet, or a file half-written? It holds on, then sends the finished thing.

Nobody sees a broken page.

Find anything fast

Press ⌘K to jump to a project, copy its link, or send it again.

Or just right-click it.

Everything in one place

All your projects, side by side, quietly kept up to date while you get on with it.

No dashboard to go and check.

Dropcel Offline — changes held ⌘K
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portfolio

portfolio.vercel.app

portfolio
$ watching ~/Vercel/portfolio detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready portfolio.vercel.app
0.0s building

changelog

changelog-jag.vercel.app

changelog
$ watching ~/Vercel/changelog detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready changelog-jag.vercel.app
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wedding

kate-and-sam.vercel.app

wedding
$ watching ~/Vercel/wedding detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready kate-and-sam.vercel.app
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pricing-test

pricing-test.vercel.app

pricing-test
$ watching ~/Vercel/pricing-test detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready pricing-test.vercel.app
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docs

docs-jag.vercel.app

docs
$ watching ~/Vercel/docs detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready docs-jag.vercel.app
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status

status-jag.vercel.app

status
$ watching ~/Vercel/status detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready status-jag.vercel.app
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og-images

og-images.vercel.app

og-images
$ watching ~/Vercel/og-images detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready og-images.vercel.app
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resume

jagenau-cv.vercel.app

resume
$ watching ~/Vercel/resume detected Astro — astro.config.mjs withheld .env.local, .npmrc uploading 34 files · 1.2 MB building astro build 12 pages built in 3.1s ready jagenau-cv.vercel.app
0.0s building

~/Vercel is empty

Drop a folder in. That's the whole setup.

Drop to deploy

Live in seconds. URL in your clipboard.

Deploying…

portfolio · 34 files

index.astro
<h1>Kate & Sam</h1>
<p>September 12 · Lisbon</p></main>
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What actually changes

You'll put more things online.

When a roll of film cost money, people photographed weddings and birthdays. When it stopped costing anything, they started photographing whiteboards, receipts, and where they parked the car.

Nobody got better at photography. The price of one photo changed, and what counted as worth photographing changed with it.

Putting something online works the same way. Right now you only do it for things that have earned it. Take that cost to nothing and you'll put up the half-finished idea, the page for one person, the thing you'd otherwise have sent as a zip.

So the thing you get isn't a faster deploy. It's more of your ideas ending up somewhere other than your hard drive.

What it's for

What ends up in the folder.

If your project lives on GitHub with other people reviewing it, you're already covered — and you'd miss the review step here. This is for everything else.

Keeps changing

A page you keep tweaking

A portfolio, a CV, a wedding page. You change it often, so it updates often.

Made by AI

Something an AI built you

Claude or v0 hands you a folder. Put it online without learning anything new.

Being watched

A demo someone's looking at

They ask for a change. You make it, they refresh, it's there.

Lots of them

More sites than you can track

Ten small projects, all online, nothing for you to remember.

The small print

The things you'd want to ask about.

  1. Your secrets stay put

    Passwords and keys are never uploaded, and it tells you which files it skipped.

  2. It doesn't repeat itself

    If nothing actually changed, nothing gets sent.

  3. It says what went wrong

    Plain English, like “package.json is missing”. The details are one click away.

  4. Nothing is locked in

    They're normal Vercel projects on your own account. Walk away and they stay up.

Give it something to put online.

Sign in once, drop a folder, and that's the last time you think about any of this.

Download for macOS Windows & Linux builds
brew install --cask jagenaujagenau/tap/dropcel