a0.dev · Keep the app
Installs stay live only if someone hits Generate & Submit — that is the lock-in, not the prompt chat. End dependence on a0 web preview and Deployment while an owned Expo tree, org App Store Connect, and Convex/Supabase you administer take the release seat. Keep the mobile product the agent already proved; stop needing the a0 panel for every hotfix.
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Getting a0.dev out of the runtime seat means owned Expo is how you build, store credentials sit with the org, and pausing preview — or stopping Deployment — leaves the public store/web origin healthy. Copying screens is homework. An exit is a day installs stay healthy after you stop opening a0 for every release.
Where exits go wrong
Screens move. Store consoles, OTA channels, backend ownership, and the habit of “open a0 and Deploy” do not move unless you plan them.
If Bundle IDs, App Store Connect, and Convex billing still sit under one personal seat, you copied files. You did not leave.
Stand EAS/CI from the owned tree before you drain a0.
Mint fresh values on org projects; rotate what touched the panel.
Status, a contact, and a way to pull a bad binary must live on something the team runs — not in one person’s a0 chat.
The exit we actually run
Org store accounts, vaulted secrets, cold native build, then a day without Generate & Submit.
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Second named admin before you cut the habit.
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Fresh values. Shared vault. Rotate what touched the panel.
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Second engineer clones, builds, and releases without a0 workspace rights.
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Only then retire “open a0 and Deploy” as the recovery playbook.
How to
Cut dependence on a0 preview and Deployment. Keep the app. Prove a day without Generate & Submit.
Step 01
Deployment ACLs, OTA channels, panel secrets, preview share links.
Step 02
Second admin named. Personal seats off the critical path.
Step 03
No leftover a0 preview context.
Step 04
Sign-in, writes, payments, and undo.
Step 05
Support knows the old recovery habit. Then retire it.
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Customer binaries still only generate through a0’s Deployment button; OTA only pushes from there; Convex/Supabase keys only exist inside its project settings; TestFlight builds require opening Generate & Submit. Opening a0 for prompt tweaks is fine. Needing a0-hosted preview or its Deployment for production availability is the lock-in.
Stand up parallel paths first: confirm Apple Developer / Play consoles and Bundle IDs are org-owned; create production Convex or Supabase projects; copy secret names from a0, inject fresh values; dual-test native builds and deep links until journeys pass. Flip store current version and OTA channels only after IPA/APK and payments succeed off a0 preview.
The owned Expo/RN tree becomes the only release artifact: CI or EAS builds from a clean checkout, injects destination secrets, and submits without a0 admin. The a0 project may still iterate prompts for spikes, but production never ships from “whatever is open in that chat.” Second-engineer proof: clone, install, native build, release without workspace rights on a0.
Publish TestFlight / Play internal tracks and production OTA from the owned path; migrate QR-based a0 app / Expo Go testers to those tracks; drain web-preview share links. Keep temporary redirects only where you control the URL scheme. Tell support the cutover window so “open a0 and Deploy” stops being the recovery playbook.
Bring how people install, who holds App Store Connect, and whether pausing a0 would block hotfixes. We put owned ship last — and we name the a0 path you can roll back to.
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