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title: "GitHub and Next Steps"
description: "Save your v0 project to GitHub so you have a real version-controlled backup, tour the integrations available for accepting payments, and look at where to grow the site from here."
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# GitHub and Next Steps

# GitHub and Next Steps

In a handful of videos, we went from a blank prompt to a live website at a custom domain. With a working contact form. With a database. With email notifications. All without writing a line of code.

Time to talk about what you can do from here.

## Browse other integrations

Go to **Settings > Integrations** in v0. We've already used Supabase, but the same flow connects you to:

- **Other databases** if Supabase isn't your thing
- **Stripe**, if you ever want to actually sell plants and collect money

Stripe in particular is worth knowing about. The day Green Thumb Goods becomes a real business is the day you'd integrate Stripe and let v0 wire up checkout, products, and payments the same way it wired up the contact form.

## Back the project up to GitHub

Open the **Project menu** (`...`) > **Settings** > **GitHub** and select **Connect**. From there:

1. Under **Git Scope**, pick the GitHub account or organization that will own the repo.
2. Enter a **Repository Name** (call it whatever you want, like `green-thumb-goods-website`).
3. Select **Create Repository**. v0 creates a private repository and pushes the project's files into it.

Now every file v0 generated lives in a real GitHub repository, with its full history. From here on, that repo is the [source of truth](https://v0.app/docs/github) for the project's code, so treat it with care. Delete it and the code may be gone for good. The branch menu next to **Publish** opens the branch on GitHub whenever you want to browse the code.

\*\*Note: Why bother with GitHub?\*\*

Two reasons. First, your code gets real version control, with every change recorded in Git. Second, it opens the door to collaborating with developers later. If you ever want a friend to help customize the code, GitHub is how they'd join in.

## Where to go from here

The site is real, but it doesn't have to stay where it is. v0 isn't a one-shot tool. It's a place you keep coming back to.

- **Add new features** with prompts: a blog, a newsletter signup, a plant care quiz.
- **Roll back** if a change goes sideways. Versions never go away.
- **Iterate on copy** any time the season changes or you've got a new product.
- **Edit the GitHub repo** if you want to dig into the code itself someday.

You started this course never having built a website. Now you have one. Domain, database, email, source code, all wired up and running. Pretty slick, right?


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