How to deploy a vibe-coded app (Lovable, Bolt, v0) to production
Your app works in the builder preview. Going live means a real host, a real database, payments, and a domain. Here is the path from preview to production.
The preview inside Lovable, Bolt, or v0 is a sandbox — convenient, but not where real users belong. Production needs infrastructure you own: a host that scales, a managed database, secrets handled properly, payments wired up, and your own domain with HTTPS.
Get the code out of the builder
Export or connect the repository to GitHub so you own the source. From there you can deploy anywhere — and you are no longer locked to the builder. This single step is what makes everything below possible.
Provision real infrastructure
- A host that scales (Vercel, Cloudflare, Railway, Fly, or a VPS)
- A managed Postgres/MySQL database — not a file that resets on redeploy
- Environment variables for every secret and API key
- Payments live (Stripe or a regional gateway) with webhooks verified
- Your domain, HTTPS, and email/DNS records configured
Verify before you announce
Run a real transaction end-to-end, test signup and login from a fresh account, and load the site from a phone on mobile data. The gap between "deployed" and "working for strangers" is where launches quietly fail.
If any of this is unfamiliar, it's a one-time setup that an engineer can do in days. Comestare's Launch Pack handles deployment, database, payments, and analytics so your vibe-coded app goes live correctly the first time.