Custom domains

Publishing your app on your own domain name, like myworkshop.com or app.mycompany.com, is one of the most requested features. It isn’t available yet.

Coming soon

Custom domains aren’t available yet. For now, each published app has a .highwind.site address. This page will be updated as soon as you can connect your own domain.

What exists today

Each published app has its own address, of the form <your-address>.highwind.site:

• you choose the part before .highwind.site (3 to 40 characters: lowercase letters, digits and hyphens) when you first publish;
• the app is served over HTTPS, with nothing to configure;
• you can change the address anytime from the Publish menu (the Change the address icon); the old address then no longer leads to your app;
• the link shares nicely: the app’s title, description and screenshot show up on social networks and messaging apps.

See Publishing your app.

Choosing a good address in the meantime

1. Use your brand or project name, short and easy to spell: moon-workshop, flatshare-budget.

2. Avoid addresses that imitate another brand or an institution: the anti-phishing check could block publishing, and it would break the usage rules (see Acceptable use).

3. Once the address is out there, avoid changing it: links already shared to the old one would stop working.

If you already own a domain name

Many domain registrars offer forwarding: your domain then sends visitors to your app’s .highwind.site address. It’s a setting at your registrar, not in Highwind, and the address shown in the browser stays the .highwind.site one.

See also

Publishing your appAddress, checks and going live.

Updating a published appPublish a new version without changing the address.

ChangelogHighwind's latest features.

FAQAnswers to the most common questions.