Create.xyz · Move in steps
Full cutover can wait. Users can keep hitting the hosted preview while you move a single slice — sign-in, data, or where the site runs — onto ground you own. Write the reverse for that slice before you touch the next. This page shows how to move in steps while the preview stays live. It is not a weekend uninstall.
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Transition means the hosted preview keeps answering while you relocate one slice — sign-in, data, or hosting — onto an owned path. Both tracks can run briefly. You reverse the slice before you start another. A slice is done when your side answers for it and the preview is only a backup for that slice.
Why moving in steps gets its own page
Migrate and get-off assume you are ready to cut. Many teams are not. They need users safe on the preview while one piece moves.
Looks tidy on a whiteboard. Messy when all three fail on the same night. Move one, prove it, then pick the next.
If you cannot put that slice back on the preview in a known time, you do not have a transition. You have a gamble.
Two editors on the same page and nobody reconciles. Drift is how “we already fixed that” returns next week.
If payments or DNS sit under one founder login, ownership is the first slice — even while the preview still serves the site.
The order we move things in
Owned host hardens first. Preview stays for users until parity is proved.
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Exploration okay; production publishes need a reviewed export.
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Both can answer for that slice.
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Prove reverse. Then retire preview for that slice.
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No silent dual edits on the same page.
How to
Keep the preview live. Be able to undo each move. Keep users safe.
Step 01
Secrets, sign-in, or hosting — not all three.
Step 02
Both can answer for that slice.
Step 03
Known time to put the slice back.
Step 04
Watch. Support knows both tracks.
Step 05
Finish one move before you start another.
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Stay inside the vibe-coding cluster, or open booking and the Austin money page.
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Shared guides and the rest of the Create.xyz pages.
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First useful ship on the owned host.
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Wrap in place before strangers.
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Bring which slices still live on the preview. We will put the moves in order.
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Named charts and methodology behind the headline numbers.
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Studio page if you want a partner for the staged path.
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Freeze critical preview-only production paths → stand owned host + secrets → migrate sign-in and data in slices → prove parity → require export-based publish → retire preview for that slice. Reversible until the final host kill-switch.
Yes — allow prompt work for exploration while production merges only through a reviewed export, then tighten when health holds. Feature flags help. Downtime stays planned near zero.
Write it down: which pages prompts may still change, which exports eng owns, who holds vault access. Unowned dual edits are how drift returns.
When you already need a full practiced exit off the hosted preview this week, or when you only need a wrap before ads hit the published URL. Then migrate, get-off, or harden is the honest page.
Bring the preview-only list and the owned host you already have. We move each part with a way to undo it before we tighten the next gate.
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