The number of people using coding agents like Claude Code is increasing rapidly. Most of the software they are building is what we call “Small Software”: small tools that solve a specific problem in the user’s life, work, hobby, or social circle.
One major limitation of creating and using these tools is that there is no easy way to publish the software on the internet so it can be used on the go or shared with others. Coding agents are missing a “Publish” button.
We wanted to build such a Publish button and find out how useful it really is. The result is Fling.
Use Fling to publish the tools you build with coding agents to the internet
Try FlingWhat is Fling?
Fling is a tool for your coding agent that gives it the power to quickly publish software to the internet. It lets users build and deploy personal tools through chat conversation with Claude (or another coding agent).
You describe what you want to build, Claude generates the tool's code, and Fling publishes it on the internet, where you can share it or access it from any browser. Fling handles everything involved, including bundling, deployment, databases, cron jobs, storage, secrets, and routing. Just as you don’t need any coding to use Claude, you don’t need any infrastructure knowledge to use Fling.
“I was kind of surprised I couldn’t just say to Claude, deploy this online. I needed Fling to be able to do that. I think when people are making these kinds of local apps, if they’re actually useful, they probably will need to be online. There’s a big gap there, and I think Fling is a really important bridge.” — Cait Levin, Customer Enablement Lead at Glide
The impact of Fling
We found that Fling has significantly reduced the activation energy required to publish software.
We launched Fling internally to Glide’s team a couple of months ago, and since then, it’s been used extensively for a wide variety of purposes.
For example:
- The customer support team has built multiple tools with Fling to help them manage support tickets more efficiently and analyze conversations more effectively. “ConvoIntel” is a Slack bot that analyzes conversations, and “Support Analyzer” helps them use Groq in the background to get around Claude’s lack of API key.
- The marketing team built tools to manage customer enablement and streamline content production for an email campaign. The marketing fling connects to HubSpot, ClickUp, YouTube, and Figma, and is used by multiple team members involved in the production process.
- The sales team created a tool that they’re calling “Fling-in-Fling” that is essentially a vibe coding platform built in Fling. It lets even non-technical Sales team members build fully custom, working app prototypes for potential customers. “What Howie created inside Fling EVERY sales org would use regardless of size,” said Katie Harkins, VP of Sales at Glide.
- The Glide Solutions team is shipping small but important apps to customers, for example, a pricing calculator for a hardware company.
“Fling lets infrastructure get out of the way of you and your coding agent to bring ideas to life. The speed of iteration I have with Fling allowed me to learn more about prompting, skills, commands, version control, automated issue creation, and automated testing because I was more focused on empowering my agent than the technical specifics of the build.” — Evan Furniss, Solutions Expert at Glide
In addition:
- A Glide Expert built a mini-SaaS: ZipZign
- The Fling homepage is, naturally, a fling.
- And of course, people are building silly games.
On top of all that, the architectural lessons we’ve learned from Fling have turned out to be invaluable for Glide’s next-generation product, but that’s something we can’t cover here yet.
Try Fling for yourself
Fling is now available to the public. If you're curious or find yourself frequently wishing it were easier to share your Claude Code builds, you can try it yourself today.
If you’re interested in diving deeper into the tech behind the tool, read our Fling research paper or our detailed architecture breakdown of Fling on GitHub.
