From your screen to a real address
Right now your tool only exists on your computer. Going live means it lives at its own web address, the kind you can open on your phone, send to your team, or point a member at. Four small services hand your code along until it is live on your own domain.
You wire the relay once. After that, every change you make travels the same path on its own.
Four pieces, one job each
You do not need to understand how each one works inside. You need to know what it is for. Here is the whole stack in plain words.
GitHub the safe
Keeps every version of your code, with a full history. If a change goes wrong, you can roll straight back to the version that worked.
DigitalOcean the always-on computer
A computer that lives on the internet and never sleeps, so your tool is there when you open it, and there at 3am when a member does too.
Coolify the robot
Takes your code out of the safe and runs it on the always-on computer. Every time you ship a change, it does the heavy lifting for you.
Cloudflare the signpost
Points your domain name at the right computer, so typing your web address actually finds your tool instead of going nowhere.
The padlock, the little lock in the address bar, gets handled next, in Keeping It Safe.
Watch one change go live
This is the whole journey of a single change, from the moment you save it to the moment it is live on your domain. Press play and watch it travel the relay.
Wire it once, and every future change runs this exact path.
Get it live, step by step
You do this once. Each step is written out like a recipe, with a picture of what you should be seeing, so you always know you are in the right place. The hard parts are all one-time, and after this, shipping a change is a single sentence.
Set up GitHub, your code's safe
Done once. Claude can now save your code and push every update for you. You just approve when it asks.
Rent your always-on computer
You now own a computer on the internet that never sleeps.
Point your domain at it
Type your address into a browser and it now finds your server.
Ship it
It is live, at your own address.
Wire it so Claude ships on its own
The first time, you ship by hand. But you can wire it so the moment your change is saved, it deploys itself: no button, no command. This is where it starts to feel like magic.
You make a change and you are happy with it.
You tell Claude to push it to the safe.
You trigger the deploy yourself, then wait for it to land.
It works, and it is the safe default. The only cost is that it is three steps, every single time.
You say "ship it."
Claude pushes your change, and the deploy fires on its own the instant it lands.
You watch your tool update at its real address. Hands off the wheel.
Hands-free is a setting you turn on once. Until you do, by-hand is perfectly fine, and there is nothing wrong with staying there.
It is live. Now make it safe.
Live means anyone with the address can open it. That is exactly when safety starts to matter, because the moment your tool holds a member's name or number, you are responsible for it. One more gate before it touches real data.
Keeping it safe →