Publish your site and connect your own domain

Builder hosting

Lovable, Bolt and v0 have their own publish button. Easiest option: one click, and updates go live when you publish again.

Vercel / Netlify

Hosting services that build your site from a GitHub repository. Best when you work in Cursor or Claude Code, or want more control. Both have free plans for small sites.

1. Find the publish or deploy button in your builder — at the time of writing it's near the top of the screen in Lovable, Bolt and v0.
2. Follow the steps. You may be asked to choose a name for the free address.
3. Open the address in a private browser window to check it works for others too.

You now have a live site on a free subdomain of the builder or its hosting partner. Custom domains are usually set up in the same publish or project settings — some tools require a paid plan for that.

1. Put your project on GitHub. In Cursor or Claude Code, ask the agent: “Create a GitHub repository for this project and push it”.
2. Sign in to Vercel or Netlify with GitHub and create a new project from that repository.
3. Keep the detected settings (they recognise Next.js and Vite automatically) and deploy.
4. From now on, every push to GitHub deploys automatically.

I want to deploy this project to [Vercel / Netlify]. Check that it builds without errors, list the environment variables I need to set on the host, and tell me step by step what to click.

Buy a domain from any registrar. Cloudflare Registrar sells domains at cost with no markup; others such as Namecheap or your local provider work just as well. Many hosts can also sell you one directly.

DNS is the internet's address book: it translates yourbusiness.com into the address of the computer hosting your site. You change it by adding records at your DNS provider (usually the registrar).

A record

Points a name to an IP address (numbers like 203.0.113.10). Often used for the root domain, yourbusiness.com.

CNAME

Points a name to another name, like www → your-project.hosting-provider.com. Often used for www.

TXT

A text note used to prove you own the domain. Hosts sometimes ask you to add one for verification.

Propagation

The time it takes for changes to spread. Usually minutes, occasionally up to 48 hours.

1. In your host (builder, Vercel or Netlify), open the project's domain settings and add your domain. Add both yourbusiness.com and www.yourbusiness.com.
2. The host shows which records to create — typically an A record for the root domain and a CNAME for www.
3. In Cloudflare, open your domain and go to its DNS records. Add each record exactly as the host shows it: type, name and value.
4. Go back to the host and wait until it shows the domain as verified. HTTPS is set up automatically once it's verified.

Using a registrar other than Cloudflare? The steps are the same — look for “DNS”, “DNS records” or “zone” in its dashboard.

• Choose one main address (with or without www) and let the host redirect the other one to it.
• Test on your phone using mobile data, not just Wi-Fi.
• Add the site to Google Search Console so it appears in search results sooner.

My site is live at [https://yourbusiness.com]. Check that it has a page title, meta description, favicon, share image (Open Graph), a sitemap and a robots.txt. Add whatever is missing.