Production Readiness
Production Readiness Checklist for an AI-Generated App
A risk-based engineering checklist for deciding whether an AI-generated application is ready for users, sensitive data, and ongoing operations.
Production field notes
Practical guidance for software that has to work in the real world.
Deployment, security, data, architecture, handoff, and production ownership for founders and teams building with AI-assisted tools.
Featured guide
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How to Deploy a Vibe-Coded App Without Confusing Deployment With Production
A practical deployment guide for AI-generated applications, from identifying the runtime and dependencies to configuring infrastructure, secrets, domains, and releases.
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Application Security
How to Secure an AI-Generated Application Before Launch
A threat-driven guide to reviewing and hardening AI-generated application code, with practical controls for authorization, data, secrets, APIs, dependencies, and operations.
Data Engineering
Database Mistakes in Vibe-Coded Apps and How to Fix Them
An engineering guide to diagnosing and correcting common database design, integrity, security, migration, and performance mistakes in AI-generated applications.
Identity and Access
How to Add Authentication to an AI-Generated App Safely
A stack-neutral guide to adding identity, sessions, account recovery, and server-side authorization to an AI-generated application without creating avoidable security gaps.
Reliability and Operations
Monitoring and Backups for a Production App: An Operator's Guide
A practical guide to instrumenting production applications, creating actionable alerts, setting recovery objectives, testing restores, and preparing incident runbooks.
Platform deployment guides
How to Deploy a Lovable App to Production Safely
A practical guide to taking a Lovable-generated application from a working prototype to a controlled, secure, and recoverable production system.
Platform deployment guides
Deploy a Bolt.new App Without Carrying Prototype Risk Into Production
A framework-aware production guide for Bolt.new applications, from exporting and auditing the source through secure deployment, testing, monitoring, and recovery.
Platform deployment guides
How to Productionize a Replit App for Real Users
A deployment and operations guide for moving a Replit application beyond the prototype stage while preserving source ownership, data safety, and recoverability.
Platform deployment guides
How to Deploy an App Built With Cursor: A Stack-Aware Production Guide
A practical method for deploying Cursor-assisted code by identifying the real stack, verifying generated changes, and building secure release and recovery processes.
Platform deployment guides
How to Turn a v0 Prototype Into a Full-Stack Product
A product and engineering guide for evolving a v0 interface into a secure full-stack system with durable workflows, owned data, testing, and operations.
Production Readiness
Vercel Deployment vs. Production Ready: What Is Still Missing?
A practical guide to the gap between getting an application onto Vercel and operating it as a dependable product for real users.
Planning and Cost
What Does It Cost to Productionize a Vibe-Coded App?
A transparent framework for estimating productionization work based on uncertainty, risk, integrations, data, and the condition of the existing codebase.
Technical Strategy
Rebuild or Improve an AI-Generated Prototype? A Decision Framework
A risk-based method for deciding what to retain, refactor, or rebuild in an AI-generated application without defaulting to either extreme.
Team and Handoff
How to Hand an AI-Generated Codebase to a Developer
A complete handoff process for transferring an AI-generated application, its product context, infrastructure, and unresolved risks to a developer.
Product Planning
How to Explain Your App Idea to a Developer
A founder-friendly translation guide for turning an app idea into users, workflows, rules, data, constraints, and testable delivery priorities.
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