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Vibe Coding Launch Readiness: Run a Go/No-Go Rehearsal
Your AI-built app works in the demo. But can your team prove it is ready for real users? This practical founder guide explains how to rehearse critical customer journeys, record evidence, assign launch responsibilities and make a defensible go/no-go decision.
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Prototype, MVP or Production Product? Decide What You Need to Prove Next
A founder-focused guide to choosing between a prototype, MVP and production service by defining the next customer hypothesis, pilot boundaries and evidence needed before investing further.
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Hiring a Developer for Your Lovable App: Start With One Safe Database Change
A founder’s guide to commissioning a first bounded database change in a live Lovable-built product, with staged migrations, synthetic-data rehearsal, permissions, recovery and evidence-based acceptance.
Production readiness
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I Built My SaaS With AI. Does Paid Access Actually Work?
Taking a payment is only the beginning. This founder-focused guide explains how an AI-built SaaS should keep subscription state and product access correct through failures, retries and cancellations.
Security
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Vibe Coding Security Audit: Test the Boundaries Between Customers
A practical, authorised staging test for checking whether an AI-built application keeps customer records, searches, exports, files, jobs and sessions properly separated.
Product audits
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How to Commission an AI-Built Product Audit That Produces Useful Answers
A founder's guide to commissioning an AI-built product audit with clear scope, reproducible evidence, commercial priorities, a usable handoff and proper retesting.
Production readiness
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How to Take a Cursor-Built App Into Production
A practical founder's guide to proving that a Cursor-built app can be installed, tested, deployed and recovered by somebody other than its original builder.
Production readiness
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How to Take a Bolt App Into Production as a Team
A practical guide to moving a Bolt-built app from a solo founder into a product a team can operate. It covers ownership, roles, database choices and a hands-on handover test.
Production readiness
AWS Well-Architected Agent: The Cloud Review Still Needs an Owner
AWS can now use an AI agent to inspect cloud architecture and propose fixes. Founders still need to decide what is safe, test the change and prove the product works.
A founder choosing between four production deployment paths for a web application, with separate live data, monitoring and recovery layers.
Replit App to Production: Choose the Right Deployment
A practical founder’s guide to choosing Replit’s Autoscale, Static, Reserved VM or Scheduled deployments, separating live data from code, and testing a safe release.
Production readiness
A founder and engineer assessing an AI-built application through checks for code ownership, access control, monitoring and operational reliability.
Is Lovable Production Ready? A Founder's Test
Lovable can host and secure real products, but readiness depends on the app. Use this founder-focused test for permissions, failures, ownership and operations.
Production readiness
AI Prototype to Production: The Bit After the Impressive Demo
A founder’s guide to turning an AI-built prototype into a dependable product, with practical checks for customer journeys, security, integrations, deployment and operational ownership.
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