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guideJul 3, 20267 min read

How to deploy a Lovable app when you outgrow Lovable hosting

Lovable's built-in hosting is great until you need a real backend, cron jobs, or your own database. Here's the complete migration path — GitHub export, deploy, data, domain — without breaking your Lovable edit loop.

guideJul 2, 20268 min read

Vercel alternatives for vibe coders in 2026

Vercel is superb at frontends — and AI tools keep generating full-stack apps that fight its serverless model. An honest tour of the alternatives (including us), organized by what your app actually needs.

guideJul 1, 20266 min read

Free hosting for vibe coded apps: what actually exists

Every platform claims a free tier. Most of them sleep, expire, or meter out from under you. Here's what "free" actually means across the options for hosting an AI-built app in 2026 — fine print included.

guideJun 30, 20267 min read

Deploy a Next.js app for free — without Vercel

Next.js runs anywhere Node runs. The complete container deploy — standalone output, env vars, Postgres, custom server gotchas — plus an honest list of what only works on Vercel.

guideMay 15, 20267 min read

How AI coding assistants should deploy code in 2026

A practical playbook for the agents writing most of the code now — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf — to take a generated project from prompt to public URL without involving the user in infrastructure.

guideMay 14, 20266 min read

Free hosting for Claude Code projects (with MCP)

Claude Code writes the project; Launchmatic ships it. A complete walk-through of taking a Claude-generated repo to a public URL — free tier, no credit card, no Dockerfile, MCP-native.

guideMay 13, 20265 min read

A v0 alternative when you outgrow Vercel

Vercel's v0 generates beautiful UIs and ships them to Vercel by default. When you need a real backend, a database, persistent storage, or predictable pricing, here's how to take the same v0 repo to Launchmatic.

deep-diveMay 12, 20268 min read

The MCP-first deploy platform for AI agents

Why we built Launchmatic's deploy primitives as MCP tools first and CLI commands second — and what it means for any agent that needs to ship code.

engineeringApr 19, 20266 min read

How we debugged a broken MCP connection in five minutes — using our own observability stack

A real bug. Real production logs. The five-minute path from "Authentication successful, but server reconnection failed" to a one-line root cause, traced live across our own dashboards.

announcementApr 17, 20265 min read

Talk to Launchmatic from inside your editor

We just shipped Remote MCP, the lm agent CLI, and Connected Apps — three new ways to operate Launchmatic without leaving your editor or terminal.