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Deploy an AI-built app to your own domain

No server, no DevOps — DNS to HTTPS in one pass.

Marcus Tan Founding Engineer, Y Build
Published Jun 9, 2026
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A preview URL isn’t a product. Here’s how to take an AI-built app from a sandbox preview to a real, HTTPS domain you own — without touching a server.

DNS to HTTPS

Point your domain, verify it, and let the platform provision the certificate. The whole loop is one pass: no nginx, no certbot, no waiting on propagation babysitting.

The gotchas

Apex vs www, and remembering that email and the app can live on the same domain. We cover both, with the exact records to add.

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Marcus Tan Founding Engineer, Y Build

Marcus has shipped 40+ production apps with AI tooling and runs the Build Lab experiments — the timed, reproducible head-to-heads behind every Compare and Lab note. Previously built developer platforms at two YC startups.

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