Publishing and sharing Updated about 2 hours ago 3 min read

Your remix URL and sharing your app

Every app has a remix URL. Share it and anyone can start their own copy of your app to build on. There's no button to hunt for — the link is the whole mechanism.

Want someone to be able to take your app and build their own version of it? You don't need to export anything, zip anything up, or find a special button in a menu. Every Overskill app already has a remix URL — sharing that link is how you let people remix your app.

💬 Ask your AI to help you share it Paste this into your app's chat:

What's my app's remix URL, and can you draft a short message I can send to invite people to remix this app? If remixing isn't available for this app on my account yet, say so honestly instead of guessing.

Your AI can tell you your remix URL and write the invite copy — but the link itself is what does the work. There's no button for the AI to press; the URL is the whole mechanism.

What a remix URL is

Every app lives at a remix URL that looks like this:

https://www.overskill.com/remix/<your-app-id>

<your-app-id> is your app's short id — the same one you see in your live app's address (<your-app-id>.overskill.app). So if your app runs at bright-otter.overskill.app, its remix URL is https://www.overskill.com/remix/bright-otter.

How it works

When someone opens your remix URL, they start a fresh copy of your app in their own workspace. They get the structure and setup you built; they can then change anything they want. Because it's a copy:

  • Their changes never affect your live app or your data.
  • Your app's real data isn't handed over — they get the app, not your users' records.
  • You keep full control of your original.

How to share it

  1. Grab your app id from your live app URL (<your-app-id>.overskill.app) or from the editor.
  2. Hand out https://www.overskill.com/remix/<your-app-id>.
  3. Anyone who opens that link gets their own copy to build on — their edits don't touch yours.

That's it. The link is the share mechanism. You're not looking for a hidden Share for remixing toggle, because there isn't one — the URL does the job on its own.

A worked example

Say you built quiz-starter.overskill.app as a template for your team. You send everyone https://www.overskill.com/remix/quiz-starter. Five teammates open it and each gets their own running copy — quiz-starter-2, alex-quiz, and so on. They rename and rebuild freely. Your original quiz-starter stays exactly as you left it, and none of their data mixes with yours.

When to use it

  • Templates and starters — build something once, share the remix URL, and let a whole team or audience spin up their own versions.
  • Teaching and demos — let people poke at a working copy without risk to yours.
  • Handing work off — give someone a running starting point instead of a blank editor.

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