How it works
Maybe your AI wrote the code. Maybe you typed every line yourself. Either way, the road from “works on my laptop” to “live on the internet” is short — and none of it involves a server.
Getting your code to us
Pick whichever fits how you build. They all end in the same place: your app, live at its own address.
If you build with AI: copy the deploy prompt from your dashboard and paste it into Claude Code or Codex. Your AI runs the deploy, reads any errors, fixes the code, and runs it again — until you're live.
If you wrote the code yourself: run npx @kickstartmvp/deploy from your project folder. It deploys and prints your live URL.
No terminal required. Zip your project and drop it into the dashboard. We detect static sites, Node apps, and Dockerfiles on our own.
Not sure yet? There's a one-click sample app in the dashboard, so you can watch a deploy happen before you commit any code.
Behind the curtain
About a minute of robot work, and none of it is yours to babysit.
Your code comes up, we build it, and your app gets its own web address — your-app.kickstartmvp.com — with HTTPS handled for you. No DNS spelunking, no certificate paperwork.
For the engineers: if a deploy fails, the command prints the error and a hint — and in --json mode, the error, hint, and logs as a single line of JSON. That format is deliberate — it's something your AI can read, act on, and retry.
Included
Every app lives at your-name.kickstartmvp.com from day one. Paid plans can point a custom domain at it instead.
A built-in Postgres database, connected automatically through DATABASE_URL and backed up daily. No account with a second company, no connection strings to paste around. Static sites don't get it wired in — but it's provisioned and waiting the day your site grows a server.
Memory and CPU step up with your plan, so a busier app just needs a bigger plan — not a rebuild.
Grab a zip of exactly what's deployed, any time, straight from the dashboard. It's your work; we just host it.
Want the exact numbers — app counts, credits, speed tiers? They're all on the pricing page
The long run
The safety net
Automation does the deploying. For everything else, there's a person.
If a deploy fails and the automatic fixes don't take, your dashboard says so plainly — and you can hand the app to us. A real person takes over and works with you until it's sorted.
That hand-off costs 10 credits, and every plan includes credits — the free plan starts with 10, paid plans refill monthly. Help is part of the price, not an upsell.
Or skip the machinery entirely and write to hi@kickstartmvp.com. We answer our own inbox.