What Owning Your Platform Means
Owning your platform means three things:
- The code is yours. It lives in your GitHub account. Nobody can take it, and any developer (or AI) can work on it.
- The site is yours. Deployed on Vercel under your account, connected to your domain. The free tier handles most small business traffic.
- The data is yours. Customers, leads, orders, content — in your own Supabase database, exportable any time.
The stack you will learn: Claude/ChatGPT to build it, GitHub to store it, Vercel to host it, Supabase to run the data, Figma to design it.
Monthly cost for most businesses: $0 to $25. Compare that to your Rent Trap number.
