Make it real
From a ChatGPT prototype or Site to a real app
ChatGPT can show you a page it wrote right in the chat, and with Sites it can publish a site for you. When yours needs more, such as a server of its own, a PostgreSQL database, scheduled jobs or the code in your own hands, ChatGPT can bring it to LazyFrog in the same chat.
Make this a real app on LazyFrog: create a project, bring its code over, and keep its data in the project's database.
Give it in the chat where you made the prototype, with LazyFrog connected. Made it in Codex? Connect Codex to LazyFrog instead and ask there: Codex has the code.
How it goes
- 1.Connect LazyFrog to ChatGPT once (how).
- 2.Open the chat where you made it and give ChatGPT the prompt above.
- 3.ChatGPT makes a project, writes the files into it and shows you the preview. Nothing is public until you publish.
- 4.It moves what the prototype keeps into the project's database and tells you what else changes, as below. It asks you for anything only you have, such as a key, through a private link.
- 5.When the preview looks right, say “publish”. On a paid plan it goes live at its own address.
Nothing made yet? Build a website with ChatGPT from scratch: a real example, from three messages.
What carries over
- The pages: their layout, styles, components and words.
- The code, written into your project file by file: LazyFrog's guide has ChatGPT compare the new preview with the original before it changes anything.
- The original, untouched. It stays where you made it.
What changes
- A Site's database becomes PostgreSQL: its tables move with a first migration, and your data comes across with them.
- Files from its storage move into your project's own file storage.
- Sign-in becomes the app's own, such as email and password, or Google.
- AI features call a model with your own provider key, under a monthly cap you set.
- Your domain points at LazyFrog instead, on a paid plan.
What LazyFrog adds
- Its own address that anyone can open, and your own domain on a paid plan.
- A real server, with background workers and scheduled jobs when the app needs them.
- Forms that reach you, and email through your own email provider.
- Sign-in for your visitors, built into the app.
- A preview to try changes on before they go live, and snapshots to undo them.
- Your code in git, and an export of everything whenever you want it.
What OpenAI's own pages say
A prototype in the chat is the quickest way to try an idea. This is what it does today, so you know what to plan for.
- Sites builds, hosts and shares a website you describe in ChatGPT or Codex, with analytics, custom domains and versions.
- A site gets a D1 database of up to 10 GB and R2 object storage.
- It serves HTTP, HTTPS and WebSockets. Raw TCP connections aren't supported, and neither are some frameworks, private networks, databases, background services and hosting patterns.
- Which plans and regions have Sites is on OpenAI's Help Center.
From Sites, checked 29 October 2026. OpenAI changes them from time to time. Side by side: LazyFrog vs ChatGPT Sites.
What your AI follows
LazyFrog gives your AI a guide. Its “Make it real” recipe is the method behind the steps above, word for word as your AI reads it.