Next steps

What to do once your store is up.

A starter kit hands you a real, working Magento® store on a cloud machine you open in your browser. Here’s how to use it from day one, when to bring in a developer, and what going to production actually takes.

Beyond the basics

When you need more.

A starter kit gets you a long way, but there are points where a human is the right call — and a real launch is a separate project.

  • Bring in a developer or agency when…

    • You’re ready to put the store on a public domain with paying customers.
    • You need to integrate with an ERP, warehouse, fulfillment partner, or a payment provider Claude can’t reach from the Codespace.
    • Traffic or data volume is high enough that performance and security need professional attention.
    • A change you want is bigger than Claude can land in a single session — multi-week features, custom modules, deep theme work.

    Looking for one? Graycore (who maintains this starter and Daffodil) can help — hello@graycore.io.

  • Going to production is a separate project.

    The store running in your Codespace is for building. Putting it online for paying customers is a different step, and it takes real infrastructure work:

    • Hosting — a server (or set of servers) that runs your store 24/7. The Codespace shuts down when you close the tab.
    • A domain and SSL certificate — so customers can reach the store at yourstore.com over HTTPS.
    • A payment processor account — Stripe, PayPal, Adyen, Braintree, etc. — wired into the store and verified for live charges.
    • A security review — admin passwords, file permissions, two-factor auth, and the rest of the Magento hardening checklist.
    • Performance tuning — cache configuration, image optimization, full-page cache, and load testing for your expected traffic.

    Claude can help with each of those, but none of them happen automatically when you create the repo. We’ll publish a longer guide on going-live when there’s enough demand for one.

Haven’t built one yet?

Spin up a store from your browser, then come back to this page.

See how it works