Export Your AI-Built Project to GitHub: Every Tool, One Place
Step-by-step export guides for Replit, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Base44, Firebase Studio, Databutton, Create.xyz and Emergent — plus the universal method that works when the tool has no export button.
Why export at all?
AI app builders are excellent at getting a product started and terrible at being its permanent home. The moment you want version control, code review, a second contributor, CI, a coding agent working on the real repository, or simply ownership of your own source — the project needs to live in GitHub (or GitLab/Bitbucket). Every guide below ends in the same place: a clean repository you control, with no secrets committed and a build that works outside the tool.
Pick your tool
- Replit → GitHub — direct Git integration; also see the complete Replit migration hub and continuing a Replit project in Feature1.
- Lovable → GitHub — built-in GitHub connection; see also fixing common Lovable errors.
- Bolt → GitHub — one-click repository creation with auto-sync.
- v0 (Vercel) → GitHub — via Vercel's Git integration or code export.
- Base44 → GitHub — export flow plus the universal fallback.
- Firebase Studio → GitHub — a real terminal means plain git works.
- Databutton → GitHub — conservative method that survives UI changes.
- Create.xyz → GitHub — conservative method that survives UI changes.
- Emergent → GitHub — the fallback method, documented.
The universal method (works for every tool)
When a tool has no export button — or its UI changed since the docs were written — this sequence always works:
Use the tool's download/export option, or copy the project files from its code view onto your machine.
Private by default. Do not initialise it with a README — you want a clean first push.
Add a .gitignore for build artefacts and environment files, and check that no API keys or secrets are in the tree.
git init → git add . → git commit → git remote add origin <repo-url> → git push -u origin main.
Clone the repository somewhere fresh and run the project. If it only builds inside the AI tool, the migration is not done.
After export: from prototype to product
Export gives you ownership; it does not give you a delivery process. When the repository is yours, the next constraint is turning ideas into planned, reviewable, shippable changes — which is what Feature1 does on top of your GitHub repository: capability-led planning, user stories with acceptance criteria, and implementation that stays inside the gates whether a developer or a coding agent does the typing.
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