The Deploy Tax: The Hidden Cost Nobody Talks About After AI Generates Your Code

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AI tools can generate landing pages in seconds, but deployment is still a major hurdle for non-developers.
The article calls this the “deploy tax”: people can create HTML with Claude or ChatGPT, but often cannot publish it easily.
To close that gap, the author built HTML Deployer, a Chrome extension that previews and publishes AI-generated HTML from the chat tab.
It supports services like Netlify, GitHub Pages, FTP, and personal servers, making AI-made pages easier to ship.
