Quick: An internal hosting platform for the AI era

Shopify attracts people who love to tinker. Building has never been the bottleneck here. People are always making things: prototypes, dashboards, little tools for their teams. The hard part was getting those things in front of anyone else. Our solution to this was Quick: an internal platform where you drop in a folder of HTML and assets and get back a secure URL that only Shopify employees can see. No frameworks, deploy pipelines, or config files. You just upload a folder and your site is live. If you need a database, AI, file storage, or websockets, those are just an API call away. We launched Quick in July 2025, and the timing turned out to be perfect. AI had just gotten good enough that people across every discipline, not just us engineers, could generate a working website from a prompt. Quick gave them somewhere to put it. AI wasn't why we built it, but it's a big part of why it took off. Today, Quick hosts more than 50,000 sites across Shopify. Over half the…