Make it real
From a Claude artifact to a real app
Artifacts are a quick way to try an idea in Claude, and they can keep data and use Claude themselves. When yours should become something people rely on, with its own address, a database and accounts for your visitors, Claude can bring it to LazyFrog in the same chat.
Make this artifact 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.
How it goes
- 1.Connect LazyFrog to Claude once (how).
- 2.Open the chat where you made it and give Claude the prompt above.
- 3.Claude 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.
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What carries over
- The page itself: its layout, styles, components and words.
- How it works for the people using it: LazyFrog's guide has Claude compare the new preview with the artifact before it changes anything.
- Your artifact, untouched. It stays in Claude as it was.
What changes
- What the artifact keeps moves into a PostgreSQL database in your project, in proper tables. To keep what's already saved, Claude helps you export it first and brings it in.
- If it asks Claude something (a summary, a suggestion), the app asks an AI model with your own provider key, under a monthly cap you set. Visitors no longer use their own Claude plan for it: you pay your provider.
- Data from your connected apps can't come through Claude any more. You connect the source to the app with its own key, or export the data and bring it in.
- Anyone can open it at its own address, without a Claude account.
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 Anthropic'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.
- An artifact can call Claude. Each person who uses it does so on their own Claude plan.
- It can read and write the apps you've connected to Claude, and everyone who opens it connects their own.
- It can keep up to 20 MB of text.
- An artifact that uses Claude or your connected apps can't be shared with “anyone with the link”.
- Unpublishing an artifact deletes the data it kept, and it can't be published again.
From What are artifacts and Publishing and sharing artifacts, checked 29 October 2026. Anthropic changes them from time to time. Side by side: LazyFrog vs Claude artifacts.
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.