Put it online

Put it online is in the builder's top bar, ready once your app is running. You can also ask the agent to put it online, in any words: it offers a Put it online card in the chat, and the app goes online only when you press Put it online on that card. If the app changes after the card was made, that card can no longer be used.

A dialog says what your app gets: its own web address, a place in your Tofu account and, for an app that keeps data or signs people in, its own database and sign-in. Give the app a name (you can change it later in Tofu) and press Put it online. It can take a few minutes, and you can close the dialog: it keeps going.

An app that runs only in the browser shows the first and third steps. At the end, the dialog says Your app is online, with its name and address.

Tofu's safety check runs first, before anything is sent. It stops code that would harm other people or Tofu, such as hidden or harmful code or a private key in a file. The dialog then says the check found something to fix, and that nothing has been sent; ask the agent to fix it.

Choices that risk only your own app, such as a table anyone with the link can change or a sign-in link left pointing at a developer's computer, come back as warnings, and warnings never stop it. A database is created only after the check passes, so a stopped version leaves none behind. It is the check every Tofu deploy passes (Deploy an app).

An app goes online on Tofu's free hosting with the code behind its pages; the Free plan hosts one app at a time. For now, Put it online sends an app with a database or sign-in to a paid plan. The builder tells the two apart from the app's files.

When an app needs a paid plan, the dialog says so and offers Tofu's free trial, started on Tofu's own page in a new tab, or a paid plan. A version without its database or sign-in can still go online on Free.

The free trial lasts 7 days and takes a card on Stripe's checkout page: nothing is charged during the trial, and you can cancel anytime in Plan & billing. Taking real payments in your apps opens once the first month is paid. Prices are on the pricing page.

Past a limit, nothing is sent, and the builder says which one: ask the agent to remove unused or large files.

Your app goes online at its own Tofu address, <name>-<id>.trytofu.app, such as franks-kitchen-3f9a1c07b2e4.trytofu.app. Pressing Put it online again in the same app sends a new version of the same app, inside the same session. Your own domain is connected in the dashboard (Domains).

The agent hears how it went, and once it settles tells you the address and what Tofu's checks found, without waiting for your next message.

• The build failed. The agent reads the end of the build log, with secrets masked, explains what went wrong and proposes the fix. Press Put it online again once it is fixed.
• The safety check stopped it. The agent lists the findings and fixes them when you ask, and asks first before changing a table you asked to be open.

In the dashboard, the app has what every Tofu app has: versions, logs and rollback (Deploy an app), its keys (Environment variables), its database (Database), sign-in (Sign-in & email), payments (Payments), a domain of your own (Domains) and its traffic (Analytics).

Apps your own coding agent sent, or that you imported from GitHub, are listed in the builder's Your apps too. They open in the builder when they pass its checks, in this order:

1. For an app that updates itself from GitHub, a card says the next push there can replace the changes you make in the builder, with Continue or Keep using GitHub.
2. Tofu holds the app's code: code a coding agent sent, a ZIP or a GitHub import. Code sent as a folder Tofu does not keep, or linked to GitHub the older way, cannot be opened.
3. The app is a static site or a Vite app.
4. It fits Put it online's size: 500 files and 1.5 MB.