How to host a Grok-generated app

Short answer: Grok writes the app; it can’t host it. Connect Grok to Croft and ask it to deploy — the app goes live at its own web address, with a real database and a login for the people you invite.

Like any assistant, Grok will build you something that works in the chat but has nowhere to live: no URL to send, no database behind it, nothing saved when you close the tab. Hosting is the missing piece.

How to do it

1. Connect Grok to your croft. In Grok, go to Skills & Connectors → New Connector, and add Croft. Full guide →
2. Ask it to build and deploy. Describe the app, or hand over what it already wrote, and say “deploy this to my croft.”
3. Share the link. It’s live behind your login; invite the people who need it.

What hosting gives you

On Croft the app gets its own URL, a database so data persists, one login through enterprise single sign-on, plus HTTPS and backups — none of which you set up. Grok builds it; Croft runs it.

Prefer Claude or ChatGPT? Same one-link setup. And here’s what a generated app really is before it’s hosted.

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