Where Vibe-Coded Projects Launch: Domains and Platforms
79.4% of VCL project URLs used custom domains. The rest reveal a mix of web hosts, game platforms and app stores—not a hosting-provider market share.
Updated November 1, 2026. This article uses dataset v10, with a November 1 cutoff and measurements recorded through October 31. This is a new frozen edition; changes in sample membership, recorded classifications and measurement timing are not within-project growth.
Most project links in VCL’s November snapshot used a custom domain: 1,192 of 1,502 submitted URLs, or 79.4%. The remaining 310 pointed to recognized shared hosts or platforms.
That second group is more varied than “apps without their own domain.” It includes hosted websites, games on itch.io, and listings in app stores.
One directory, several routes to the public
| Submitted URL type | Project URLs | Share of all 1,502 URLs |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domain | 1,192 | 79.4% |
| Shared host or platform | 310 | 20.6% |
The custom-domain count is a count of project URLs. Deduplicating their domains gives 1,145 eligible unique custom domains; multiple projects can point to the same domain.
Among the 310 shared-host and platform links, the breakdown was:
| Shared host or platform | Project URLs | Share of the 310 platform URLs |
|---|---|---|
| vercel.app | 83 | 26.8% |
| itch.io | 34 | 11.0% |
| lovable.app | 33 | 10.6% |
| Google Play / Chrome Web Store | 30 | 9.7% |
| Apple App Store / TestFlight | 24 | 7.7% |
| netlify.app | 23 | 7.4% |
| github.io | 21 | 6.8% |
| replit.app | 6 | 1.9% |
| Other shared hosts and platforms | 56 | 18.1% |
The address does not reveal the whole infrastructure
These are submitted destinations, not hosting-provider market share. A custom domain can still run on Vercel or Netlify, and its infrastructure would not appear in this platform-URL breakdown. The report’s separate technology-detection figure examines that different question.
App-store listings also need to stay distinct from running web applications. An Apple or Google platform link describes where a product is presented or distributed, not a website the builder hosts there. Removing those links would hide a real part of the submitted-project mix; counting them as ordinary web hosts would misdescribe it.
The finding is about launch destinations in a selected VCL sample. It does not establish that buying a custom domain improves a product, or that a shared address makes one less complete.
Data and source. State of Vibe Coding 2026, Dataset v10: domain choices and shared platforms, cutoff November 1, 2026 at 00:00 UTC. See the classification methodology.
Read the full State of Vibe Coding report for the accompanying domain and page measurements.