Base44 · Move in steps
A full exit can wait. Users can keep hitting the published app while you move a single step — ZIP/GitHub sync into org Git, sealed secrets, or who controls App Visibility — onto ground you own. Write how to undo that step before you start another. This page shows how to move in steps while Publish App stays live: prompts stay useful for spikes; production authority leaves the panel gradually.
30 min · senior team · leave with a clear next step
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Transition means Publish App keeps answering for users while you relocate one step — export sync, secrets, or visibility control — onto an owned path. Both tracks can run briefly. You undo the step before you start another. A step is done when your side answers for it and the panel is only a prompt workshop for that step.
Why moving in steps gets its own page
Migrate and get-off assume you are ready to cut. Many teams still need the published URL healthy while one ownership piece moves.
Feels efficient until all three break together. Take one step, prove it, then choose the next.
If you cannot put that step back on Publish App in a known time, you are gambling — not transitioning.
Two writers, no reconcile rule. That is how last week’s “fixed” bug returns.
If the founder is the only admin, ownership is the first step — even while Publish App still serves traffic.
The order we move things in
Owned host hardens first. Published URL stays for users until parity is proved.
01
Sandbox prompts okay; live publishes need a reviewed export path.
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Both can answer for that step.
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Prove undo. Then retire panel Publish for that step.
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No silent dual edits on the same screen.
How to
Move in steps while Publish App stays live. Undo each step. Keep users safe.
Step 01
Secrets, ZIP sync, or App Visibility — not all three.
Step 02
Both can answer for that step.
Step 03
Known time to put the step back on Publish App.
Step 04
Watch. Support knows both tracks.
Step 05
Finish one move before you start another.
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First useful ship from the export.
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Tighten before strangers hit the URL.
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Bring which steps still only live under Publish App. We will put the moves in order.
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Freeze critical panel-only production paths → stand ZIP/GitHub in org Git + sealed secrets → move Auth and entities in steps → prove parity → require export-based ship → retire Publish App for that step. Undoable until the final host kill-switch.
Yes — keep prompting on sandbox apps while production merges only through a reviewed export, then tighten when health holds. Planned downtime stays near zero.
Write it: which screens prompts may still change, which exports eng owns, who holds vault access. Unowned dual edits are how drift returns.
When you need a full practiced exit this week, or when you only need a wrap before ads. Then migrate, get-off, or harden is the honest page.
Bring which steps still publish only from the panel, who holds App Visibility, and how you would undo a bad cut. We put the moves in order before we talk about a full exit.
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