Reposted by Youval Vaknin
In 2020 an internal memo said we should kill Netlify Drop. In 2026, 60%+ of new signups make their first deploy with it. Wade wrote up 13 years of Drop history: the 2013 commits, the HN false-positive, the sunset debate, and how agents adopted the claim-later flow. www.netlify.com/blog/thirtee...
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The 13-year story of Netlify Drop
Netlify Drop has offered anonymous drag-and-drop deploys since 2013 and pioneered the deploy-anonymously, claim-later flow AI agents use today