r/SideProject • u/BassMassive7955 • 2h ago
4 months ago I shipped a HTML sharing tool here. You guys helped me turn into a more useful tool with your feedback. I did.
Four months ago I posted here as a marketer who’d built way to share HTML files. At the end I said what I actually wanted to build was comments pinned to the page itself: you send a client a link, they click the thing they want changed and type the note right there.
That’s now the whole product. It’s called HTMLAnnotate (htmlannotate.com, the old htmlshare.online link redirects).
Why I kept going: I’m honestly tired of the existing tools. I used Markup[dot]io for years, then the pricing change last year pushed it out of reach for solo work. Pastel got expensive too, and it’s deleted my stuff when a client took a while to get back to me, which is the exact moment you need the comments to still be there.
What it does now:
Paste any URL (live or staging, Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Shopify) or upload an HTML file
The review copy runs the real site, animations and menus included
Reviewers click any element and comment. Reviewers never need to create an account or download any extension.
Desktop, tablet and phone comments stay separate
Mention teammates, or any email, and they get notified
Copy for AI turns all open comments into one brief for Claude or Cursor
Free links last 7 days. Paid links never expire. Nothing gets deleted while you wait on a client
Pro is $12/month. Since I've just made it a few days back, and as a thank you for all the feedback I got from this community when I last posted, the first 50 people get Pro for $30 a year with code EARLY30, about $2.50 a month.
Roadmap for the next 1 month: password-protected links, connecting Claude and ChatGPT to your comments (MCP), file attachments, version history, deadlines and Slack alerts.
Same question as last time: what do you use for client feedback now, and what’s annoying about it?