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How to export a Bolt project and keep building with your own AI

A Bolt project is ordinary code that belongs to you. This guide gets it into your own GitHub, opens it in InstaWeb so Claude Code, Codex or Cursor can keep working on it, and covers the parts a code export doesn't include.

  1. BoltWhere the project is now
  2. Your GitHubThe code, with its history
  3. InstaWebYour own agent keeps building, on your computer
  4. Your hostVercel, Netlify, Cloudflare or any other

Before you start

  • A GitHub account.
  • A Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor plan, or an API key. InstaWeb runs your own coding agent and sells no AI.
  • A Mac, Windows or Linux computer. InstaWeb runs there, and you use it in your browser.

Not sure it is worth moving? See how InstaWeb and Bolt compare, including when Bolt is the better choice.

1. Get the code out of Bolt

  • Connect the project to GitHub

    In Bolt, click the GitHub icon at the top right, log in to GitHub, install Bolt's GitHub App and choose which repositories it can use. New repositories start private, and the project stays on the main branch.

  • Or download the code

    Click the project title at the top left, then Download. You get a zip file; unzip it somewhere on your computer. This doesn't work from a phone.

2. Open it in InstaWeb

  1. 1

    Install InstaWeb

    Sign in at instawebai.com with Google and paste the one command it gives you into a terminal. It installs InstaWeb and finds the coding agents you are already signed in to: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode.

  2. 2

    Import the project

    On the Projects page, click + in the new-project box and choose Import from GitHub, then pick the repository. If you downloaded a zip instead, unzip it and choose Import from folder. InstaWeb runs the project on your computer with a live preview.

  3. 3

    Keep building

    Type what you want, or click anything on the page and ask for a change. Your own agent edits the real source files, on the AI plan you already have, and each run is saved as a commit.

The new-project box on the InstaWeb Projects page with the + menu open: Attach files, Import from folder, Import from GitHub, and skills
The + menu on the Projects page. Import from GitHub opens a list of your repositories; Import from folder opens one on your computer.
An imported booking app running in InstaWeb, with Claude Code's run in the chat on the left and cards to connect Stripe and Google Sheets
An imported app, live in the workspace. Here Claude Code is adding a Stripe deposit; when the work needs an account, a card asks you to connect it.

3. Bring over what the code doesn't carry

The repository holds the app's code. These live in Bolt and need moving, or setting up again, before the app works somewhere else:

  • Environment variables

    Bolt keeps these in the project's .env file, which is part of the code. Check that it came across, and add the same values on your host when you publish.

  • Secrets

    Secrets for server functions are not written to the project's files. Create them again where the functions will run.

  • The database

    Bolt's documented way out is to claim the database into Supabase: open the database, then Advanced, then Claim. It needs a Pro or Teams plan and you must own the Supabase organisation. Bolt documents no way to move it back.

  • Your domain

    Once the app is live on your host, point the domain's DNS records at it.

You can hand most of this to your agent: tell it which service the database and secrets are moving to, and it can make the changes in the code.

4. Publish

  • Publish to your host

    Pick a host and the deploy agent builds the app, signs in through the host's own page and hands you the live link. Add the environment variables and secrets there. For a quick look before you commit to a host, you can get a free Cloudflare link without an account.

InstaWeb's publish panel: host tiles for Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, AWS and others, Help me choose, and a box to type any other host
Pick a host, or type the name of one that isn't listed and the deploy agent reads its docs.

From here the app is plain code in your GitHub, running on your host. Nothing in it calls InstaWeb or Bolt.

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Sources

Everything said about Bolt here comes from the official pricing pages and documentation, read on 13 November 2026. Plans and features change: check them before you decide, and tell us if something here is out of date.

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