Why migrate?
If you built a healthcare app on a platform like Lovable, Bolt, or another AI code generator, there’s a good chance it isn’t HIPAA-compliant. That means you can’t safely handle protected health information (PHI) - patient records, appointment details, billing data, or anything that ties health info to a real person. Specode is built for healthcare from the ground up. Every component, every integration, and the entire hosting stack is designed to meet HIPAA requirements. Migrating to Specode means your app gets compliant infrastructure without starting over from scratch.How migration works
We read your existing codebase, build a map of how your project works - the pages, the data models, the authentication, where information is stored - and use that to plan how it moves onto Specode. You keep the features and logic you’ve already built while gaining HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.1
Give us read access to your code
Install our GitHub App so we can scan your repository. This is read-only - we can’t change, delete, or push any code.
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We scan and plan
Our system reads the code and builds a project map. We identify what can transfer directly, what needs adjustment for compliance, and flag anything that won’t work in a HIPAA environment.
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Review the migration plan
We walk you through what we found and how we’ll rebuild it on Specode. You’ll know exactly what’s changing and why before any work begins.
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Build on Specode
Your app gets rebuilt on Specode’s HIPAA-compliant stack using our pre-built healthcare components. You can continue iterating with our AI coder just like you would on any other platform - but now with compliant infrastructure underneath.
Install the Specode GitHub App
To get started, you’ll need to give us read access to your repository. This takes about a minute.Install the GitHub App
Open GitHub and install the Specode HIPAA scanning app on your repository.
Step-by-step
- Click the link above. It opens a GitHub page for Specode HIPAA scanning - that’s the name of our scanning app.
- Choose where to install. GitHub asks which account to install on. Pick the personal account or organization that owns the repository.
- Select “Only select repositories.” Then pick just the repositories you want us to scan. We recommend this over “All repositories” - there’s no reason to give us more access than needed.
- Click Install. That’s it. Nothing is downloaded and nothing on your side changes. Let us know it’s done so we can start the scan.
You’ll need to be signed in to GitHub. If the repository belongs to a company or team account, you may need to be an owner or admin.
What we can and can’t do
The app is read-only. Here are the exact permissions GitHub grants it:We can
- Read the code in the repositories you selected
- See basic repository details like name and branches
We can't
- Change, delete, or push any code
- Open pull requests or issues
- See any repository you didn’t select
- See your password or personal account settings
About the app name. The app is called “Specode HIPAA scanning” because it was originally built for our healthcare compliance scanning. It’s the same app we use to read a project during a migration - the name just hasn’t caught up with everything it does.
Removing access
You can remove access at any time without asking us:- On GitHub, go to Settings > Applications > Installed GitHub Apps
- Find Specode HIPAA scanning and click Configure
- Change which repositories we can see, or uninstall the app entirely
What platforms can I migrate from?
We can migrate from any platform where your code is in a GitHub repository (or can be exported to one). Common platforms we’ve migrated from include:- Lovable - AI app builder, not HIPAA-compliant
- Bolt - AI code generator, not HIPAA-compliant
- v0 / Vercel - Frontend tools without healthcare compliance
- Custom React/Next.js projects - On non-compliant hosting