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What is a "live preview", and why does it matter?

The difference between looking at a design and clicking through the real thing — and why we build the second one first.

Traditionally a web project goes: you approve a design on paper, then you wait, then a few weeks later you see the finished site for the first time. By then every misunderstanding is expensive to fix.

We do it the other way round.

What you get

A live preview is your actual website or app, running at a private link, from the first days of the project. Not a picture of it. You open it on your phone, tap the buttons, fill in the forms, and see what happens.

Why that matters

  • You react to the real thing. "The menu feels cramped on my phone" is something you can only know by holding it.
  • Changes are cheap early. Moving a section on day three costs minutes. Moving it after launch can mean rework across the whole build.
  • No surprises at the end. By the time we go live you have seen every screen, many times.

How it fits the timeline

  1. You accept the quote and pay the deposit.
  2. Within 1010 minutes you get the first preview link — the working core of what you asked for.
  3. You send feedback; we change it; the same link updates.
  4. Over the next 10 days and 10 hours it fills in: real content, integrations, security, testing on real devices.
  5. It goes live on your own address.

How we can do it this fast

We build on MegaPixel, our own AI coding platform. It lets our team turn a spec into working software very quickly, and it keeps a live preview running for every project as standard — the How we build page shows the workshop itself.

Tip: Share the preview link with the people whose opinion matters early — the person who answers the phone, the person who does the invoicing. They will spot things you won't.

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