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Plain-English guides for people who built an app with an AI builder like Bolt or Lovable, and now need it live on Netlify, on their own domain.

Start with the first guide

Clay with Maya, our demo app: a booking page for pottery classes
Our demo app, Clay with Maya. Not a real studio: it is built on the starter below so every guide has a working example.
From
Your AI builder
Via
GitHub, then Netlify
Deliver to
yourapp.com
Contents
8 guides, 1 starter
Prices checked
31 Oct 2026
Written by
shipwright

From builder to your domain

Your app already works inside the builder. Getting it to an address of your own takes three stops, and most of the way is free.

The step-by-step guide

In the builder

Link your project to GitHubfree

Every change is saved therefree

On Netlify

Import the projectfree

Netlify builds it npm run build15 credits

One line so every page loads _redirectsfree

On your domain

Buy the nameregistrar price

Point it at Netlify two DNS recordsfree

The padlock appears HTTPSfree, within 24 h

Live on yourapp.comFree + domain

A starter app that works on Netlify

A small app with the three things AI-built apps most often get wrong on Netlify, already fixed. Deploy it as it is, or copy its files into your own project.

Deploy it to Netlify Read the code

  • A class page of the demo app opened straight from its own address

    Every page opens from its own link

    Share or refresh any page and it loads, instead of “Page not found”.

  • The waitlist form on a full class in the demo app

    Sign-ups reach you

    The waitlist form sends every entry to Netlify Forms. No backend needed.

  • The Ask the studio page of the demo app

    Your AI key stays private

    The AI feature works, and the key never reaches a visitor's browser.

Asked on the Netlify forum

Real thread titles from answers.netlify.com, and where each one is fixed.

Will Free cover it?

Netlify's Free plan is 300 credits a month, and the limit is hard. Move the sliders and watch the total.

164

credits of 300. Free covers it.

Credits this month

Deploys, 8 × 15120

Bandwidth, 2.0 GB × 2040

Requests, 2 per 10,0004

Form sign-ups, always free0

If it goes over

Personal$9 a month

Pro$20 a month

Total164

Rates from Netlify's pricing and billing docs, checked 31 October 2026. Ten requests a visit assumed. How it adds up

Guides

In the order you'll need them. Each one ends where the next begins.

  1. Where to host an app you built with AI Your app runs inside Lovable, Bolt or v0. Here is where it should live once real people use it, and when the builder's own hosting is enough.
  2. From Lovable, Bolt or v0 to a live Netlify URL Get the code out of the builder, connect it to Netlify, and fix the one setting that breaks almost every AI-built app on its first deploy.
  3. Move an app off Lovable or Bolt hosting to Netlify When it is worth moving a live app from lovable.app or bolt.host, what moves and what stays, and how to switch the domain without people noticing.
  4. Fixes for Netlify deploy errors The problems people report most on the Netlify support forum when they deploy a Vite or React app, in their own words, with the fix that worked.
  5. A working form in an AI-built React app with Netlify Forms Why the contact or waitlist form your AI builder made never reaches Netlify, and the two small changes that fix it.
  6. Put your own domain and HTTPS on an AI-built app Buy a domain, point it at Netlify the right way for both yourapp.com and www, and get the padlock without waiting days.
  7. API keys in AI-built apps: where they leak and how to keep them server-side Which keys are safe in the browser, which ones are not, and how a small Netlify Function keeps a secret key off your visitors' screens.
  8. Is Netlify's free plan enough for your app? Netlify's free plan is 300 credits a month. Here is what spends them, three worked examples for AI-built apps, and the signs it is time for Personal or Pro.

Who writes this

shipwright

I write the guides on this site for people who have built an app with an AI builder and now need it online. Each one follows the steps in the official docs, links to the forum threads where people got stuck, and dates every price it quotes. Clay with Maya, the demo app used throughout, is built on the open starter linked from the home page.

About the site How the guides are researched Contact

How these guides are made

Most demos stop at the moment the app works in the builder. These guides start there.

Every step comes from the official docs and pricing pages, read on the date printed under each guide, and every fix links to the forum thread where someone first hit the problem. When a number changes, the page changes with it.

Some links pay this site a commission. Each guide still says who should pick something else, including the builders' own hosting when it is enough.

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