You built something. If it lives only on your laptop, a recruiter has to take your word for it — and busy recruiters don't. A public link they can click in five seconds is worth more than a paragraph describing the same work. Hosting it is free. Here's how.
A link a recruiter can click in five seconds beats a paragraph describing the same work.
Pick a free host
- GitHub Pages — best for a static site or a project write-up. Free, and it sits right next to your code.
- Vercel or Netlify — best for a web app or anything with a build step. Both have generous free tiers and deploy straight from a Git repository.
Any of the three gives you a real URL in under half an hour. Connect it to your repo once, and every time you push an update, the live site updates itself — that's the automation.
What to put on the page
A live link only helps if the page answers the recruiter's questions fast:
- One line on what it is and who it's for.
- A way to try it — a demo, or clear steps to run it.
- What you decided and why — two or three sentences. This is what separates a real project from a copied tutorial.
- A link to the code, if there is any.
Skip the long autobiography. They're deciding whether to keep reading, not marking an essay.
A recruiter opens your project page. What should hit them first?
Link the proof, not just the project
If your project came with a credential — a certificate, a scorecard, a verification page — link that too. A result someone else validated carries more weight than your own description of it.
Give your work a URL. It's the cheapest, highest-return hour in your whole job search.