How to Share an AI Prototype With Your Team (No Developer Needed)

The prototype is done. Sharing it is the blocker.

The generation step stopped being hard. You describe a screen, v0 or Bolt or Lovable builds it, and minutes later you have something clickable. Then you want three colleagues to try it before the standup, and you're stuck.

The built-in share link is usually public, or tied to the building tool's own account, or both. Deploying it properly means a git repo and a Vercel project, which is a developer's job and overkill for a prototype you might throw away tomorrow. So people screenshot it, which kills the one thing that made it worth sharing: it was clickable.

What "share" should mean here

For a prototype going to teammates, the bar is modest and specific:

• The team can open it, the public can't.
• Viewers don't need an account anywhere (not Vercel, not the tool you built it in).
• It stays clickable in the browser, not a flattened image.
• The link lasts at least as long as the conversation about it.

Two shapes of prototype

This matters because it changes the tool:

• Static. A single HTML file, or a static export with bundled JS and CSS. Most v0 components, Claude artifacts, and "show me this screen" Bolt outputs are effectively this once you export them. Nothing runs server-side.
• Full app. Multiple routes, a database, API keys, server logic. This is a real application.

A static prototype just needs to be served behind a login. A full app needs to be deployed. Don't reach for the heavy option when you have the light case.

Share a static prototype behind company auth

Export the prototype to HTML (every one of these tools can give you the built output), then publish it as a gated artifact:

dsp publish ./prototype.html

You get a permanent URL. A teammate clicks it, signs in once with their company Google or Microsoft account, and clicks around the live prototype. No public link, no Vercel account, no install. Flat pricing with unlimited viewers means you can drop it in a channel for the whole team without a per-seat bill.

Two things make this better than a bare deploy for prototype feedback. Reviewers can leave inline comments pinned to the part of the screen they mean, and that feedback comes back to you (or straight to the model that built it) attached to the right spot. For the next iteration, fetch the current version and republish with the artifact ID and base version so it lives at the same link with version history behind it.

When you need a full deploy instead

If the prototype has a backend (auth, a database, server-side API calls), it isn't a static file and gated publishing isn't the tool. Deploy it to Vercel or Netlify, wire its environment, and if it has to be company-only, put company auth in front of the deployment. That's more setup, and it's the correct amount of setup for a real app. The line is simple: static export, publish it; live backend, deploy it.

For non-developers

No terminal, no problem. Two paths:

• From Claude Desktop (MCP). Say "publish this behind company auth" and the display.dev tool returns the gated URL right in the conversation.
• Web upload. Drag the exported HTML into the display.dev dashboard and get the URL back.

Either way a PM or designer can share a prototype with the team without waiting on an engineer.

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