August 8, 2026 · Shipping

Three ways to go live

"Going live" means three different things depending on who you're building for, so the platform ships all three and lets you mix them per product.

Path one: the free subdomain

One click puts a build at yourname.buildmidas.com — no accounts to create, no DNS to touch, no cost. It's the right first move for almost everything: share the link, see if anyone cares, iterate. Apps with real backends (accounts, databases, even WebSocket multiplayer) publish this way too, with the server side hosted and managed for you.

Path two: your own server

When a product graduates to your own domain, deploy over SFTP straight from the build page. The deploy agent inspects your server, picks a sensible strategy, and — because production surprises are a genre — keeps version history on your host: the pre-existing webroot is captured before the first deploy, every deployed version is kept, and revert is one click. Your server, your domain, your files; we're just careful movers. (More on the fear-removal aspect in Iterating without fear.)

Path three: the stores

Utilities and games often live or die on store distribution. Android builds ship to Google Play, extensions to Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons, through your own developer accounts, with listings and privacy declarations prepared by agents. That path has its own post: From prompt to app store.

Choosing (you mostly don't have to)

SituationSensible path
Testing whether an idea has a pulseSubdomain, today
A brand that needs its own domainSubdomain first, then deploy to your server
A utility people should find in a storeSubdomain for the landing page + store ship for the app
A client project on their infrastructureDeploy to their server, versioned
They stack. The common end state for a serious product is all three at once: a marketing site on your domain, the product live on a subdomain or your server, and the app in a store — every piece built, published, and iterated from the same chat.
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