Client preview without a staging box

A five-minute client review does not deserve a staging environment. Live Link publishes the process already running on your Mac to a branded userig.app/live/… URL. The client opens it on a phone. You expire it when you are done. The source never uploaded.

This is not ngrok-as-a-personality. It is an opt-in share off the same board that started the server. Password and view limits exist because agencies asked. LAN QR still exists for the room you are sitting in.

When to use it

• "Can you look at this nav on your phone?"
• A stakeholder who should not get SSH, Docker, or a preview deploy.
• A designer on a different network than your *.test site.

When not to

Production traffic. Long-lived demos you forget to kill. Anything that should have auth because it has real customer data. Live Link is a preview, not a host.

How it is wired

Rig's relay, not a requirement to install cloudflared. Docs: Live Link, privacy and password, expire and views. Stop a share from the same UI you started it.

If the rest of your stack is still six tabs, the share will not save you. Get the process on the board first: add a project.

https://userig.app/blog/client-preview-without-a-staging-box