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WEBSITE MIGRATION

Your Webflow Site Can't Keep Up. We Rebuild It So You Can.

If you're a founder watching your dev team duct-tape Airtable to Webflow because you've hit the 10,000-item CMS limit, you've already outgrown your stack.

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WEBSITE MIGRATION AT A GLANCE
  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • Vercel
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Tailwind CSS
  • 95+LIGHTHOUSE AVG
  • 12+ yrsSENIOR-LED
  • Fixed feeNO SCOPE CREEP
  • 200+PROJECTS SHIPPED
CLUTCH 5.0 VERIFIED

Overview — 01

When Webflow's CMS limits, bolted-on auth, and missing backend logic start blocking your growth, we build the Next.js + Supabase stack that actually scales with you.

Webflow to Next.js + Supabase Migration

A structured migration service that replaces Webflow's CMS and hosting layer with a Next.js frontend backed by Supabase's Postgres database and auth system. We move your content, rebuild your templates in code, and configure row-level security so your data model matches your actual product. The result is a codebase your engineers own outright, with no third-party CMS sitting between your users and your backend.

The gap — 02

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Webflow's 10,000 CMS item hard limit forces teams to split collections, build Airtable bridges, or delete live content to stay under the cap.
Risk: Every workaround adds a sync failure point and increases the time your developers spend on data plumbing instead of product work.
Webflow has no native server-side auth, so gating member portals, dashboards, or paid content requires third-party tools that sit outside your codebase and billing.
Risk: Auth logic scattered across Memberstack, Outseta, or custom iframes cannot be audited, versioned, or extended without rebuilding it anyway.
Your marketing team edits content in Webflow while engineers build features in a separate repo, so deployments conflict and design tokens drift out of sync.
Risk: Split ownership slows every release cycle and makes it impossible to ship personalised or data-driven pages without a full custom integration.

Safeguards — 03

How we build this right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

SEO Continuity Guaranteed

We audit every indexed URL before migration and implement exact-match redirects, canonical tags, and structured data in the new Next.js build so search rankings are not disrupted on cutover.

Row-Level Security from Day One

Supabase policies are written and tested before any data is moved, ensuring that user records, gated content, and admin tables are never accessible outside their intended permission scope.

Performance Benchmarked Post-Launch

Core Web Vitals are measured against your Webflow baseline and contractually must meet or exceed them before we hand over the repository and close the engagement.

Scope — 04

What we build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Unlimited Postgres-Backed Content

Supabase replaces every Webflow CMS collection with a typed Postgres schema you control. There are no item caps, no collection limits, and no monthly tier that gates how many records your editors can publish.

Native Auth and Member Portals

Supabase Auth handles email, magic link, OAuth, and SSO flows with session management built into your Next.js middleware. Member-only pages, role-based dashboards, and gated downloads are first-class routes, not iframed workarounds.

Incremental Static Regeneration for Marketing Pages

High-traffic landing pages are statically generated at build time and revalidated on a schedule, so your marketing team keeps the fast load times Webflow delivered without losing the ability to pull live data from Supabase.

Full Codebase Ownership and CI/CD Handoff

We deliver a documented Next.js monorepo with a configured GitHub Actions pipeline, environment variable management, and Vercel or self-hosted deployment instructions so your team can ship independently from day one.

Stack — 05

Built on a modern, secure stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelTypeScriptPostgreSQLTailwind CSSNextAuthOpenAI APIStripe

Process — 06

Our development process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Audit and Schema Design

1 week

We export your Webflow CMS, map every collection and field to a normalised Postgres schema, and document all indexed URLs, redirects needed, and third-party integrations that must be replaced or preserved.

02

Next.js Build and Supabase Configuration

2-3 weeks

We build your page templates, dynamic routes, and reusable components in Next.js, configure Supabase tables with row-level security policies, and migrate all CMS content into the new database in a staging environment.

03

Auth, Integrations, and QA

1-2 weeks

Member auth flows, third-party API connections, and any form or payment integrations are wired in and tested against real user journeys. Core Web Vitals and redirect coverage are verified against the pre-migration baseline.

04

Cutover and Handoff

1 week

We execute the DNS cutover during a low-traffic window, monitor error rates and search console for 48 hours post-launch, and deliver the documented repository, deployment runbook, and a recorded walkthrough for your team.

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Questions — 08

Frequently asked questions

Most migrations wrap up in 5-7 weeks. Simple marketing sites under 50 pages can ship in 4. Complex projects with member portals, AI features, and thousands of programmatic pages typically run 6-8 weeks. You'll get a fixed timeline during the assessment phase -- no surprises.
No, not if it's done right. We crawl every indexed URL on your Webflow site, extract all metadata and structured data, implement 301 redirects for every page, and monitor Search Console for 30 days post-launch. Most clients actually see ranking improvements within 8 weeks, mostly because Core Web Vitals scores jump significantly on the new stack.
Yes. We integrate visual CMS platforms like Sanity, Contentful, or headless WordPress so editors get a proper drag-and-drop interface. Content publishes instantly without developer involvement. For large content libraries, the editing experience is honestly often better than what Webflow's native CMS offers.
Supabase auth lives at the database layer with Row Level Security -- access control is enforced at the query level, not in frontend JavaScript that anyone can inspect. It supports OAuth providers, magic links, phone auth, and custom JWT claims. No per-member pricing, no third-party widget loading on every page, and noticeably faster login flows.
On Webflow, you're capped at 20,000 CMS items. Next.js generates pages from database records with no ceiling -- we've built sites with 200K+ pages. Incremental Static Regeneration keeps content fresh without full rebuilds, and you get complete control over meta tags, schema markup, and internal linking at any scale.
At scale, the difference is stark. Webflow Business plus Memberstack plus integration tools can run over $200/month and you're still hitting hard limits. Next.js on Vercel plus Supabase Pro runs roughly $45-75/month for equivalent traffic -- no CMS caps, native auth, and real-time features included. That gap only widens as you grow.

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200+ employee company? Complex multi-tenant, auction, or multi-location requirement? We have a dedicated enterprise capability track.

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Get started — 10

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