You’ve built a website, calculator or dashboard with Claude, and in the chat window it looks good. Then comes the question almost everyone gets stuck on: how does someone else get to see this, at an address of your own?
The short answer: there are four routes. Which one suits you depends on three things. Do you want your own domain name? Will you keep tinkering with it? And how much technical work are you willing to take on?
First: what have you actually built?
Claude produces files: a page with text and styling, sometimes with a small program in it that calculates something. That is a real website. It just isn’t anywhere yet.
Putting it online means those files go onto a computer that is always on and has an address. Such a computer is called a server. The four routes below differ in who arranges that server and how much you have to do yourself.
The four routes
1. Sharing through Claude itself
What Claude builds, you can publish and share as a link. Anyone with the link can view it.
- One click, no extra cost
- No technical skills needed
- The address belongs to Claude, not to you
- No domain name of your own
- Good for showing something, less so as a calling card
2. A free hosting service
Services such as Netlify and GitHub Pages have a free tier. You download your files from Claude and put them there. Connecting your own domain name is possible.
- Free to start
- Own domain possible
- Fast and reliable
- Made for developers
- You manage the files yourself
- Download and upload again for every change
- You set up your domain’s DNS yourself
3. Regular web hosting
A hosting package from a provider, often together with your domain name and email. You put the files there with a file transfer program.
- Familiar, with a helpdesk
- Domain and email in one place
- You need to be comfortable with FTP and folders
- Every change is manual work
- Claude cannot reach it directly
4. Waterbloom
This is what we do, so weigh it for yourself. You get your own address that works right away, and Claude is connected directly to your environment. Want to change something? You ask Claude and it’s there.
- No downloading or uploading files
- Changing something means asking a question
- Own domain possible, we handle the DNS
- Personal help
- From €9.95 per month
- Young company, few users so far
- You need a Claude subscription to really work with it
The routes side by side
| Route | Cost | Own domain | Changing something | Technical effort |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharing through Claude | No extra | No | In Claude, publish again | None |
| Free hosting service | Free tier | Yes, set up yourself | Download and upload again | Quite a lot |
| Regular web hosting | A few euros per month | Yes | Replace files via FTP | Quite a lot |
| Waterbloom | From €9.95 per month | Yes, we arrange it | Ask Claude | None |
Which route suits you?
- You just want to show it to a colleague or friend: share it through Claude. You need nothing more.
- Your site is finished and will never change, and a developer dashboard doesn’t scare you: a free hosting service is the cheapest.
- You already have a hosting package and know how FTP works: just add it there.
- You’ll keep tinkering, or you don’t want to manage files: then an environment Claude can reach itself pays off. That is what Waterbloom is made for.
My own experience: building with Claude went fast, getting it online did not. Every small adjustment meant downloading, uploading and checking again. As a result I adjusted less and less. That is why Waterbloom exists.
Four things that often go wrong
- A form that sends nothing. A contact form looks like it works, but with nothing behind it the message arrives nowhere. Ask Claude for a button that opens an email or WhatsApp message; that always works.
- Personal data on a public page. Anything online without a password can be seen by anyone with the link. Don’t put customer details or quotes there without protection.
- Putting off the domain name. A name that is free today may be gone tomorrow. Registering it costs a few euros a year, even if your site isn’t finished.
- Only looking at your own screen. View your site on a phone too before you send the link around. That is where most visitors arrive.
Try it yourself
Want to see how route 4 works in practice? The examples page has three working examples you can operate yourself: a quote tool for a house painter, a knowledge site for a physiotherapist and a recipe site for a hobby baker.
Further reading: how I built my own Google Ads dashboard with Claude, without an agency.
Updated on 11 October 2026. The capabilities of Claude and of other services change; when in doubt, check their own websites.