What happens to my website if fivedaylaunch shuts down?

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You own 100% of your code and can run it anywhere.  That's the core guarantee. If fivedaylaunch shuts down tomorrow, your website keeps working exactly as it does today—hosted on your own server, managed by your own team, zero vendor lock-in.

How Ownership Works

When you build with fivedaylaunch, you get full source code ownership from day one. That means:

All code belongs to you, not the studio 
 You can host it anywhere (AWS, Vercel, your own servers, competitor studios) 
 You can modify it, hire other developers to maintain it, or sell the business without restrictions 
 There's no proprietary framework or black-box magic you're dependent on

This is fundamentally different from platforms like Wix or Squarespace, where your site lives in their ecosystem. With fivedaylaunch, you're not renting access—you're buying the asset.

What About Ongoing Support?

If you're on a Care Plan ($199/mo) or Growth Plan ($499/mo), those include monthly maintenance and AEO refreshes. If the studio closes, you lose those services, but your website doesn't disappear. You'd just need to hire another developer to handle updates, security patches, and AI optimization work going forward.

That's actually a reasonable tradeoff: you're paying for convenience and expertise, not survival.

The Delivery Guarantee Matters Too

fivedaylaunch offers a refund + free completion guarantee on every project. So if the studio faces financial trouble mid-project, you either get your money back or the work gets finished. That protects you during the build phase.

Bottom line: treat it like hiring a freelancer or contractor to build something you own, not like signing up for SaaS. Once it's done and deployed, it's yours to keep.