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Deploy

To deploy is to put your app somewhere that stays running, so it keeps working when your own computer is closed.

Also called: ship, go live, put it online

While you are building, the app exists only on your machine, and only while you leave it running. Deploying copies it to a computer somebody else keeps switched on, so it can do its work on a schedule and be reached from your phone.

Nothing about the code changes. What changes is who can reach it and what a failure costs: a broken app on your desk is a bad afternoon, a broken app your customers touch is a different category of problem.

The usual mistake is deploying before deciding what happens when it fails at three in the morning.

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Paste this first

Something broke

I just did this: <what you clicked or typed, in a few words>
This is what I got: <paste the error here, or drag in a screenshot>

I don't know what it means. Work out what went wrong and fix it. Then tell me in one plain sentence what was wrong and what you changed, and stop.

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1 of 7 Where do you sell online?
2 of 7 Would you like software built around exactly how your business works?
3 of 7 When something in your software needs changing, how do you want that to happen?
4 of 7 Have you ever written code?
5 of 7 If something breaks, what kind of help do you need?
6 of 7 Do you pay monthly for an app where you only really use one or two of its features?
7 of 7 Building your app means using an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT on a paid monthly plan. Are you OK with that?