What is a Preview Deployment?
A preview deployment is a hosted copy of one version of your app. Hosts such as Vercel create one for each push to a branch other than production, or for a CLI deploy without the production flag. App builders such as Lovable, Bolt and Replit offer a similar publish step.
The copy stays up after you close your laptop, but it is frozen at the last deploy, and Vercel documents generated URLs as publicly accessible by default.
How qURL Fits
When you want feedback while you build, qURL shares the live app instead of a copy: the reviewer sees your latest code, and the link works once and expires within 24 hours.