Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor's talk argues that creators need an immediate connection to what they are making, and that the gap between changing a thing and seeing the change is where ideas quietly die.
curious.pub is being built so your agent can publish from a conversation. Repo connected, every change previewed, nothing live until you say so. Your ideas stay yours. Your agent handles the mechanics.
Curious people explore, learn, connect ideas, write, photograph, document, tinker, dream, and build. Eventually, they feel the urge to share what they’ve discovered with others.
Every idea deserves to be published. Yet publishing on the web is still curiously complicated. Domains, hosting, deployments, certificates, builds… somehow, the tooling became more important than the work itself.
What if publishing felt as effortless as scribbling on a piece of paper?

That’s why Curious.pub exists. We make publishing disappear, so you can focus on your ideas while we take care of the rest.
Today, Curious.pub supports Astro sites. More publishing platforms will follow.
Where this is headed
src/pages/index.astro
- draft: waiting for review
+ published curiously
✓ merged by you · live at john.curiously.pageThe shape we are building toward. Not yet.
What works today
Today you can publish an Astro static site, from your terminal or from your agent over MCP.
The build runs remotely, in an isolated sandbox with no credentials of its own.
You watch it live.
Minutes later, you get a preview URL. It is yours for 72 hours.
Free during the trial. New accounts are limited each day, first come.
Write to support at curious.pub with a question or a problem.
Open to everyone, with a daily limit on new accounts.What we’re curious about
While building Curious, we keep notes on books, essays, talks, papers and questions that change how we think about publishing.
See all curiositiesBret Victor's talk argues that creators need an immediate connection to what they are making, and that the gap between changing a thing and seeing the change is where ideas quietly die.
Before there were websites, there were books. Before books, there were manuscripts.