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Prototyping best practices

Learn best practices for prototyping a project from zero to MVP with AI.

# Prototyping best practices

We recommend the following prototyping best practices:

  • Start your prompt with the general goal and then get more specific
  • If your codegen tool accepts context files, use Netlify context files to improve the experience for your AI tools
  • Think like a technical writer and avoid ambiguity where it’s most important
  • Give examples of what you want to build
  • Keep iterating and explore what you may get if you are also strategically less specific in your prompt
  • Claim Codegen deployments and connect them to your Netlify account so that you can manage your project longer term on Netlify with the benefit of our security features, custom domains, analytics, forms, live previews, streamlined Git version control for managing code versions of your project, and more.
  • Collect and track feedback on your prototype project using the Netlify Drawer, which allows you to invite an unlimited number of free Reviewers

# Benefits of claiming your deployments

When you use AI code generating tools, to rapidly prototype a project, you can claim your codegen deployments and connect them to your Netlify account so that you can gain the following the benefits:

  • custom domains
  • analytics
  • forms
  • Git version control for advanced and secure version management of your project and code rollbacks
  • live previews
  • rollbacks of published deployments
  • security features, such as secret scanning
  • serverless and edge functions

In addition, every deployment on Netlify is powered by our platform’s global edge network, which allows high-performing web experiences no matter where you are in the world, simplified rapid scaling, and all the advantages of modern web development with features like serverless and edge functions, advancing caching, and more.

AI codegen platforms can be used to rapidly prototype fullstack apps.

# Claim your deployments

Based on the AI tool or code agent you use, there will be different ways to claim your deployment or project preview and connect it to your Netlify account.

If you need to create a Netlify account, you can do so here.

For AI partners, such as Bolt, Windsurf, and Same.new we offer a built-in way to claim deployments and connect them to your Netlify account.