Lessons from the production trenches.
Teardowns, war stories, and guides from real audits and builds. No hype, no growth-hacking — just what breaks when AI-built apps meet real users, and how we fix it.
The 4 things every vibe-coded app gets wrong about auth
localStorage tokens, client-side role checks, no session expiry, and one shared admin account. Here is what each one costs you — and the fix that takes an afternoon.
- ▲localStorage tokens
- ▲client-side role checks
- ●no session expiry
- ●one shared admin
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The Friday-night outage that turned into a rescue engagement
A prototype fell over at 600 users. What broke, what we stabilized first, and the checklist that came out of it.
The pre-launch security pass we run on every audit
Eleven checks between "it works" and "it is safe to charge for". Steal the list.
Why your Stripe integration will break in production
Webhooks you never handled, idempotency you skipped, and the refund edge case that double-charges.
How LaunchGuard is being built from real audit findings
Every audit trains the scanner. What the pipeline catches today, and what still needs a human.
Ship-readiness: 9 questions before you take payment
If you can't answer these, you're not ready to charge — and that's fixable.
The prototype was the easy 80%. The last 20% is the business.
A short essay on why "almost done" AI apps are usually less than halfway to revenue.
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