Base44 · Keep the app
Publish App is how strangers see what you prompted. Fair start. Now you want that same app answering from a ZIP or GitHub tree you control — App Visibility under the org, entities restored, Auth no longer tied to one panel login. This page is the eject path: keep the journeys you proved, stop treating Publish App as the only way the product stays public.
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Getting out of the host seat means ZIP/GitHub or eject is how you ship, App Visibility sits with the org, and Auth secrets rotate without opening the panel. You have already practiced a day with Publish App paused. Downloading a ZIP alone is homework. An exit is a day the app stays public after you stop opening the project for every release — including paths that no longer need Base44 servers.
Where exits go wrong
Files move. Entity restore, Auth remap, connector replace, and the habit of “open the project and Publish App” do not move unless you plan them.
If the domain, App Visibility, and data login still sit under one personal seat, you copied files. You did not leave.
Remap or replace those calls before you drain the old origin.
Schemas are not rows. Dump and restore first.
Status, a contact, and a way to unpublish a bad release must live on something the team runs — not in one person’s panel.
The exit we actually run
ZIP/GitHub or eject, vaulted secrets, cold build, then a day with Publish App paused.
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Founder-only billing and visibility get a 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 the export, builds, and ships without your login — and without mandatory Base44 server calls you meant to exit.
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Only then retire panel-only ship as the recovery playbook.
How to
Cut dependence on Base44 hosting. Keep the app. Prove a day without Publish App.
Step 01
Connectors, entity rows, Auth config, unpublished prompts.
Step 02
Second admin named. Personal seats off the critical path.
Step 03
No leftover editor context.
Step 04
Sign-in, writes, and undo.
Step 05
Support knows the old recovery habit. Then retire it.
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Because speed inside one prompt editor is not the same as a team-safe host, entity restore, and ship that survives staff changes. Keep the validated app; relocate it onto ground that does not cap growth when you hire.
ZIP/GitHub or eject map, entity dumps, Auth inventories, connector lists, and a note of SDK-dependent vs owned modules. Secrets and DNS must not stay trapped in one panel.
Stay: proven screens, domain logic, and journeys that already work. Rebuild: Auth/entity backends you are exiting, secret stores, on-call notes, and anything that only existed as panel config.
Usually yes — if DNS and Auth already sit with the org (or we transfer them). Live accounts stay put; you are changing where Publish App happens, not wiping who signed up.
Bring the prompt-to-app list, how people sign in, and who holds the domain. We put owned ship last — and we name the Base44 host path you can roll back to.
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