DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Beyond Replit]
Replit's agent builds and hosts a working full-stack app without you touching a terminal. We move it into your own repository, database, and cloud — hardened, tested, and ready for real traffic.
Free migration audit[Why it stalls]
Replit is the most complete of the AI builders. Agent, editor, Postgres database, authentication, object storage, secrets, and deployments all sit in one place, so you go from an idea to a live URL with working logins without ever configuring anything. For non-engineers and for engineers who want to skip setup entirely, it is a genuinely excellent starting point, and plenty of real products have launched from it.
Everything convenient about that is also coupling. Your database, your auth, your file storage, your secrets, and your runtime belong to the platform. Deployments are billed per always-on machine or per request, and once you have meaningful traffic that bill is not obviously cheaper than infrastructure you configure yourself. Meanwhile the agent-written code has the same properties as its peers: thin on tests, loose on validation, and structured for "it works in the workspace" rather than for a team.
Teams usually hit one of three walls. A security or compliance review asks where the data lives and who can reach it, and the honest answer is uncomfortable. The cost curve bends the wrong way as usage grows. Or you hire an engineer who cannot work the way they are used to — no local environment, no branch-based workflow, no pipeline — and the platform that made you fast becomes the thing slowing your team down.
[How it works]
[01]
We map everything the platform is currently providing — database, auth, storage, secrets, scheduled work, deployment — and pair each with its destination and the risk of moving it. At the same time we review the code and run a security pass across validation, authorization, and exposed keys. You get an extraction plan, a data-migration rehearsal schedule, and a fixed scope.
[02]
Your GitHub repository, your database, your object storage, your secret management, your hosting, all in accounts you own, with development, staging, and production separated properly. We migrate data with dry runs and verification at each step, and replace platform-supplied auth with your own, including the account-matching path so existing users stay existing users.
[03]
With the app running on your infrastructure, senior engineers close the security findings, move authorization to the server, restructure agent-generated code into typed shared modules, and build the test suite and CI/CD pipeline. This is where the codebase stops being something only its author can safely change.
[04]
We run both versions in parallel against the same data, verify parity feature by feature, then cut over with a final sync and a DNS change — minutes of switchover. After launch we watch it under real traffic, then hand over the repository, the accounts, and documentation, and the Replit deployment bill stops.
[Where you land]
Where you land depends on what your app is. Web products usually move to React or Next.js with TypeScript over managed Postgres — Neon, Supabase, or RDS — hosted on Vercel, Cloudflare, or your own cloud. Apps with real server-side work get containerized and run somewhere ordinary and portable, on infrastructure that can be reproduced from configuration rather than clicked together. Object storage becomes S3 or R2, secrets live in a proper manager, and CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting wrap all of it.
The important change is that nothing about your product depends on a single vendor's workspace any more. Any engineer can clone the repository and run it locally, your costs track infrastructure you can measure and tune, and a compliance questionnaire has straightforward answers.
[Other platforms]
[Smaller engagements]
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[FAQs]
Usually one of three reasons, and you will know which one is yours. A customer or investor asks security and compliance questions the platform's answers do not satisfy. Deployment costs stop making sense at your traffic. Or you hire engineers who need local environments, branches, pipelines, and the ability to run the app anywhere. If none of those apply yet, staying is a reasonable choice — we will say so.
This is the one part of the migration that touches users, and it is well-trodden. Accounts and profile data migrate; identities get matched on verified email address, so users who signed in with Google or GitHub simply sign in again with the same provider and land in the same account. Where a credential genuinely cannot move, a one-time reset flow covers it. Most users experience a single extra sign-in and nothing else.
Yes. It is standard Postgres, which means a normal dump and restore into Neon, Supabase, RDS, or any managed provider, with the schema improved along the way — constraints, indexes, and versioned migrations that agent-generated schemas typically lack. We rehearse the migration with dry runs and verify row counts and integrity before the real cutover.
Absolutely, and several of our clients do. It is a good place to try an idea quickly without touching the production codebase. What changes is that the production app no longer lives there: experiments prove a concept, then the real implementation is built in your repository with tests and review.
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. About 6 weeks and around $20,000 all-in for most apps, compared with roughly $200,000 and 6 months for a traditional rebuild. Replit migrations carry a little more infrastructure work than a Lovable or v0 project because more of the stack is platform-supplied, but the code and product already exist, which is where most of a build's cost normally goes. The audit produces a fixed quote.
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