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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 Riza here, solo founder of SandyWP.
After years of working in WordPress plugins companies and handled thousands of client sites, often times when I stumbled upon really difficult issue where I cannot replicate it on fresh installation, I will need to copy over their site into my server.
That means I have to login to my server > setup the DNS so it connect to my server > install fresh WordPress > export client site > import it to this new site.
And that's fine when you do it once. But I could almost do it few times a week. That started to give me real pain.
The Problem
A WordPress test site has to be three things at once:
Real — a real server, real database, real wp-admin.
Fast — if a clean install takes 10 minutes, you'll reuse a dirty one instead, and now your test results are tainted.
Disposable — but per-site pricing punishes exactly the throwaway behavior that testing needs. Delete-and-recreate becomes a billing decision.
The Solution: SandyWP
Real, disposable WordPress sandboxes in a seconds. No local stack, no credit card, and your first one doesn't even need a signup. Three ways in:
Create — pick WP 6.6–7.0 and PHP 8.1–8.3, hit the button, and get a live HTTPS URL with one-click magic login into wp-admin. Live in a seconds, timed, real.
Clone — paste any live WordPress site's URL and SandyWP pulls its database and files into an isolated sandbox. Debug the client's site without ever touching production.
CLI - Manage your site directly from the terminal
Templates - Save your sandbox as a template, and share it with your customers.
Slack - just mention @SandyWP in Slack with a ZIP — it replies in-thread with a live site and a login link.
Launch deal for hunters: code PHLAUNCH = 30% off any paid plan — recurring on every renewal, forever, not a first-month gimmick → https://sandywp.com/ph
I'll be here all day answering everything. Honest question for the WordPress folks: how do you spin up test sites today, and what's the most annoying part of it? Brutal feedback very welcome. 🙏
the "clone a live site into a sandbox, share it with anyone via a link, no login needed" combo is the part I'd think twice about - if the sandbox is an exact clone of a client's production site with no auth, doesn't that mean any unpublished drafts, real customer data in the DB, or anything else on that site is now sitting on a public URL with no gate at all? feels like the disposability that makes this useful for testing is also what makes it easy to forget a sandbox is still live and exposed
A one-click "reset to clean slate" button after each test session would save a lot of time, so I don't have to manually wipe installs between experiments.
Would be huge if you could share a sandbox via a simple public link so clients can preview changes without needing their own login. That kind of frictionless handoff would make this my go-to for client work.
The instant spin-up is genuinely impressive, had a clean WordPress site ready in under a minute. Also appreciate that I can blow it away without worrying about my real installs. Solid for quick testing.
one thing that would be super useful here is letting users share a sandbox with a teammate via a simple link, since right now it seems like everything is locked to your own account and collab on staging stuff kind of requires that
About SandyWP on Product Hunt
“WordPress sandbox, instantly.”
SandyWP was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 26 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Spin up a fresh WordPress sandbox in seconds. Test plugins, themes, and ideas without breaking real sites.
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