Rocket.new · Staging to ship
Staging Launch proves the Build renders. It does not fill Production env, pin a custom domain you own, or prove ZIP/GitHub boots with the editor closed. Keep the screens already shaped by Chat and Visual edit. Stop treating a green Staging URL as the release bar.
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To-production here means custom domains and Production secrets pin to an origin you control, and the primary journey completes on that domain with Production env injected by the host — not only inside Rocket’s Staging tab. Staging stays a studio option. A short note that people can trust the ship path is.
What living on Staging Launch still hides
That is the right first job. The second job is what users feel when Production env is empty or Stripe still uses Staging connector values — whether you wrote it down or not.
Rocket documents separate values per environment. Both tabs matter.
Keys that only exist in Staging/Production tabs are not a safe home. Rotate anything that lived there.
Production answers: which Version is live, what checks passed, and how to undo.
External CI from GitHub/ZIP beats Launch when uptime and second-engineer deploys matter.
The handoff we actually run
Keep the screens. Stop relying on untested Staging to run the app.
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Document which model production uses — Rocket Launch vs external CI.
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Fresh values. Named in a vault. Fail closed when missing.
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Second person can release a known ZIP/GitHub tree.
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Signup → session → write. Prior Version ready.
How to
Own Production env, domain, and ZIP/GitHub. First useful ship — not a full exit.
Step 01
Staging secrets, Staging hostnames in Auth, unlabeled Chat Versions.
Step 02
ZIP/GitHub builds clean from a checkout.
Step 03
Production domain only.
Step 04
Logs/analytics tag the Version.
Step 05
Document which model production uses.
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Staging proves the Build renders on a shareable Netlify-backed URL. It does not prove Production env is filled, custom-domain DNS is yours, ZIP/GitHub export builds clean, or rollback works without Rocket Versions UI. If Auth still allows Staging hostnames and Stripe/Supabase still use Staging connector values, you have a convenient preview — not durable prod.
Staging and Production env tabs must both be populated with the right secrets. The ZIP or GitHub push must build from a clean checkout; for Next.js TypeScript, two-way sync assumptions must be documented. Supabase redirect URLs and Stripe webhooks must list only the Production domain. Versions you will promote must be labeled so on-call does not redeploy an unlabeled Chat experiment.
Use Rocket Production-tab Launch while iteration risk is acceptable — and budget platform lock-in explicitly. Prefer external CI from GitHub/ZIP when uptime, rollback, and second-engineer deploys matter. Document which model production uses so on-call does not discover “only Launch in Rocket works” during a launch spike.
Run signup → session → write on the Production custom domain with Production env. Confirm logs/analytics tag a Version, Auth fails closed when Production env is wrong, and closing the Rocket editor does not stop the destination host. If those hold, the Build-shaped UX stays, and the app no longer depends on Staging.
Bring Production env status, who holds the custom domain, and whether a second engineer can ship with Rocket closed. We put owned ship last — and we name the Staging path you can roll back to.
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