Free step-by-step walkthrough and agent skill to take a local site live on your own domain with Netlify: deploy, make public, buy a domain, DNS, HTTPS, verify. By unblck.me.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Take a site that works on localhost and make it reachable by anyone at https://yourname.com. Free, step by step.
What you get
A Getting Started walkthrough (opens on install, or run Welcome: Open Walkthrough… and pick Ship your site). Each step is one section of the guide:
0. Make sure you have something deployable
Create a Netlify account
Deploy to a *.netlify.app URL (drag and drop, CLI or Git)
Make the project public (new Netlify teams default to private)
Buy a domain
Add the domain to your Netlify project
Point DNS at Netlify (Netlify DNS or external DNS)
HTTPS certificate
Verify from outside your own machine
Common failures and fixes
An agent skill for Copilot Chat (ship-your-site, VS Code 1.109+). Ask "help me put this site online with my own domain" in Agent mode, or type /ship-your-site. The agent asks before any purchase or account action.
No commands, no telemetry, no code runs: the extension only contributes the walkthrough and the skill.
Other agents
Using Cursor's agent, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Windsurf? Install the same skill with: