# Quickstart

Publish files from your browser and share the link. No install and no account needed to try it.

## Publish your first link

1. Open [publish.dropzoom.link](https://publish.dropzoom.link/).
2. Choose files or a folder, or drag and drop them onto the page. For a website or web app, add
   the built output (the folder with `index.html` in it), not the source code.
3. Choose who can open it: anyone with the link, or only people who know a visitor password.
4. Complete the human check and publish.
5. Copy the HTTPS link and send it.

A folder with an `index.html` opens as a website. If everything sits inside one top-level folder
that contains `index.html`, that folder becomes the site root, so the site opens at `/`. A ZIP file
is unpacked one level and published as its files. Anything else gets a simple listing where
visitors can view or download each file.

Hidden files, dependency folders and common credential files (such as `.env`, `.git`, `node_modules`
and private key files) are left out automatically.

## Guest links last 24 hours

Without an account, your link is a guest link. It works for 24 hours and then stops. Publishing
again as a guest gives you a new random address.

## Keep a link by registering

To keep the address you just published, create an account from the result screen. Your link moves
into your account at the same address, with the same files, and the 24-hour expiry is removed.
Nothing is uploaded again.

To register you choose:

- a username: 3 to 32 characters, lower-case letters, numbers, `-` or `_`, starting and ending with
  a letter or number
- a passphrase: 12 to 256 characters, not containing your username

DropZoom does not ask for an email address, and there is no passphrase reset. When your account is
created, DropZoom shows you one recovery key, once. Save it in a password manager. It can sign you
back in if you lose your passphrase, and it is also the key an agent uses to publish for you.

A browser sign-in lasts 7 days.

## Manage your links

Signed in, open **Your links** to see everything you have published. From the browser you can:

- publish new links
- add, change or remove a visitor password
- delete a link

Replacing the files at the same address and rolling back to an earlier version are done with the
[CLI](/docs/cli/) or the [HTTP API](/docs/api/).

## Get feedback on a link

Links in your account collect feedback by default; guest links do not. A reviewer opens your link, adds `/__edge/review` to the
address and leaves a comment, a change request or a "looks good". Reviewers do not need an account.
You can read and resolve feedback in **Your links** or with `dropzoom feedback`.

## Connect an agent

Sign in, open **Account** and choose **Connect an agent**. Give the agent your recovery key through
a secret store, never by pasting it into a chat. The [agent quickstart](/docs/agents/) has the full
steps.

## Good to know

- Anyone with the link can open it unless you set a visitor password.
- Use DropZoom for content that is not sensitive. Never publish secrets, private keys or files you
  do not have permission to share.
- Read the [limits](/docs/limits/) for file sizes and how long links last.