✅ Quick Summary
Match your export cadence to your development stage: daily during active building, weekly during maintenance, and once before archiving a finished project.
The Problem
Exporting too rarely risks losing significant work if the platform has an outage or you accidentally break something. Exporting too often for a stable project just adds noise to your GitHub history.
How Push44 Solves It
Match your export cadence to your development stage: daily during active building, weekly during maintenance, and once before archiving a finished project.
Step-by-Step Guide
Active development: after every session
If you're actively prompting and iterating with your AI platform, export after each session so you never lose more than one session's worth of work.
Maintenance mode: weekly
Once your app is stable and you're only making occasional tweaks, a weekly export is enough to stay protected without cluttering your commit history.
Before major platform changes: always
If the platform announces a migration, pricing change, or new version, export immediately regardless of your normal cadence.
Archived projects: one final export
When you're done with a project, do one last thorough export, verify it, then you can safely stop paying attention to the platform version.
Pro Tips
- Set a recurring calendar reminder if you tend to forget — consistency matters more than frequency.
- Treat any 'this changes soon' announcement from a platform as an immediate trigger to export.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Waiting until something breaks to export for the first time.
- Exporting once and assuming that's enough for an actively evolving project.
Ready to Export?
Push44 is free, open source, and takes under 2 minutes to set up.