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We migrated www.manhattandigest.com from Wordpress to EmDash/Astro using the www.go4launch.org framework (https://github.com/govsoftusa/go-for-launch). The site is run without monetization in honor of the founder Ryan Shea who passed away at age 34 from Covid-19. Manhattan Digest is a relatively long running media site for independent writers to share content. The site was launched with Wordpress back in 2012 and is now powered by Emdash/Astro.

rareOS is a purpose built platform for helping retailers in the buy-sell-trade industry generate more sales and grow their business by taking "dark inventory" sitting on shelves and turning it into online sales. No up front costs and to get started selling there is no monthly platform fee.

We built an open-source toolkit called Go for Launch to support the Astro website work we have been doing at GovSoft.

It brings together the processes we use to:

• Migrate Webflow and WordPress websites to Astro
• Build, launch, and maintain Astro websites on Cloudflare
• Test with Chromium, WebKit, and native Mobile Safari
• Validate accessibility, performance, SEO, and best practices
• Keep Astro and compatible dependencies current
• Require 100 scores across all four PageSpeed categories on both mobile and desktop before release

This is the first public version, and we welcome contributions from anyone with additional platform experience, testing methods, or production best practices.

Depending on which parts of the toolkit you use, you may need free or paid services including:

• PageSpeed Insights, with paid API access if you exceed the unauthenticated limits
• Cloudflare Pages or Workers for hosting
• Cloudflare Email Service and Turnstile if you use the recommended form pattern
• macOS and Xcode if you want to test in the native iOS Simulator

The goal is to make Astro website migrations, maintenance, testing, and releases more repeatable and evidence-driven. A successful build is only the beginning. The production gate requires 100 for Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO on mobile and desktop.

Go for Launch is an independent community toolkit. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Astro project, The Astro Technology Company, or Cloudflare.