--- title: "Stop keeping projects on your machine and start shipping them for real users 🚀" url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-keeping-projects-on-your-machine-and-start-shipping-them-for-real-users--dnhgpjymu source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziggUcuKHO8 type: video:youtube source: "Tech With Tim" published: 2026-05-12T16:08:37.359Z updated: 2026-05-12T16:08:52.340Z reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop keeping projects on your machine and start shipping them for real users 🚀 **[Tech With Tim](https://daily.dev/sources/TechWithTim)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Many developers accumulate projects that never leave their local machines. Deploying to real users — even with minimal traffic — exposes a category of problems invisible in local development. Simple options like Vercel or a basic FastAPI app on a cloud provider are enough to start. The core lesson: shipping to production is a skill that can only be learned by actually doing it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Stop Waiting for the Big Idea. Ship the Small App.](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-waiting-for-the-big-idea-ship-the-small-app--gdne2u1kz) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-keeping-projects-on-your-machine-and-start-shipping-them-for-real-users--dnhgpjymu)