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For apps built with Lovable, Replit, Bolt, v0 or Claude: getting them deployed, keeping data safe, and what the builder never set up.
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How to Deploy a v0 App (and What to Check Before Real Users Arrive)
v0's Publish button puts your app on Vercel in one click, and for many apps that's the right answer. What you actually have, how GitHub sync changes the workflow, how to host a v0 app somewhere other than Vercel, and the production checks that apply wherever it lives.
How to Deploy a Lovable App to Production
Lovable's Publish button gets your app online in one click. Whether that's production-ready depends on your database security, your domain, and what happens when you outgrow the builder. The three deployment paths, and the checks to run before real users arrive.
How to Deploy a Bolt.new App: Bolt Hosting, Netlify, or Your Own Server
Bolt.new can publish your app in one click, to its own hosting or to Netlify. What each option actually gives you, when to export the code and host it yourself, and the checks to run before you share the link with real users.
How to Get a Custom Email Address for Your Domain
you@yourapp.com looks far more trustworthy than yourapp.support@gmail.com. The options — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho, Proton, Fastmail, and forwarding — how MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records set it up, and how mailboxes differ from sending email from your app.
What Is a Cookie? How Websites Remember You
Cookies are how you stay logged in, keep items in a cart, and — yes — get tracked across the web. What a cookie is, how session cookies work, first- vs third-party cookies, the security settings every login cookie needs, and cookies vs local storage.
How to Connect a Custom Domain to Your App: DNS Without the Jargon
Your app works at a long platform URL, and you want it at yourname.com. What DNS records actually do, A vs CNAME in plain English, the apex-domain problem, how HTTPS gets issued, and how to fix the usual errors.
How to Choose an AI App Builder: Seven Questions to Ask First
Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, and a dozen others all promise an app from a prompt. Features change monthly, so instead of a ranking, here are the seven questions that decide whether a builder suits your project — and what to check before you commit months of work to one.
Which Database Should an AI-Built App Use?
The AI will happily pick a database for you — sometimes a file on disk that disappears on the next deploy. What the choice actually is, why Postgres is the right default for almost every app, and the mistakes that lose data.
Authentication vs Authorization: What's the Difference?
Authentication checks who you are. Authorization checks what you're allowed to do. Mixing them up is behind many of the worst security holes in AI-built apps. A plain-English explanation with the hotel analogy, the mistakes to look for, and a five-minute test.
Anatomy of a URL: What Every Part of a Web Address Means
https://app.example.com:8080/orders/42?sort=new#details has seven parts, and each one matters when you build an app. The scheme, subdomain, domain, port, path, query string, and fragment, explained — plus URL encoding and why some characters turn into %20.
Analytics for Beginners: What to Measure in Your First App
You launched. Is anyone using it? What web analytics and product analytics are, the handful of numbers that matter for a new app, privacy-friendly tools that don't need a cookie banner, how to track events, and how not to drown in dashboards.
How to Add Stripe Payments to an AI-Built App Without Getting Burned
AI tools will happily wire up Stripe in a way that looks finished and lets anyone pay $0.01 for your product. The four rules that make payments safe — server-side prices, verified webhooks, idempotent fulfilment, and a real live-mode test — explained without the jargon.
How to Add Login to an AI-Built App (Without Building It Yourself)
Authentication is the one feature you should never let an AI write from scratch. What 'login' actually involves, the three sensible ways to add it, and the checks that tell you whether the login your AI tool built is protecting anything at all.
Web Accessibility Basics: Making Your App Usable by Everyone
Accessibility means people using screen readers, keyboards, magnification, or captions can use your app too. The common failures in AI-built apps — missing labels, div buttons, poor contrast, keyboard traps — how to test for them in ten minutes, and the prompts that fix them.
You Built an App With AI. Now What?
The AI wrote your app in an afternoon. Getting it online, with a real database, that doesn't leak your API keys, is where most people get stuck. A plain-English guide to what happens after the code exists.