Pre-Launch Production Readiness Checklist

The #1 vibecoding mistake: API keys sitting in your code or git history. Hunt them down.

The standard checklist real engineers use. Run your app through it in plain English.

The audit nobody does after vibecoding. Find what'll break or get exploited before users do.

The scariest bug: one user seeing another's data. Check your auth before someone else does.

Before you ship AI-generated code, have it checked by something that won't sugarcoat it.

That app you built pulls in hundreds of packages you've never read. Find the risky ones.

Protect user data properly — before a leak makes the decision for you.

Good logs save you at 2am. Bad ones leak data and tell you nothing. Get this right.

It works with you clicking around. Will it survive 1,000 real users and a bad day?

Get your data model right before you build on top of it.

Inherited code you didn't write? Get the map before you touch anything.

Clean up messy AI-generated code safely — one small change at a time.

Stuck on an error you don't understand? This gets you unstuck without the lecture.

The prompt that makes Cursor add a feature cleanly instead of rewriting half your app.

A landing page that converts, generated clean and ready to tweak.

Most AI-built apps turn into spaghetti. Get the structure right up front.

The first prompt to paste into Lovable or v0 so you get something real, not a toy.

Login and signup without losing a weekend to auth docs.

Before you build anything with AI, get the spec right. This writes the PRD for you.

Find the holes before someone else does. Paste your code — it runs an OWASP-style security review and tells you what an attacker would try first.

A mock interviewer that runs you through a real system design round, interrupts like the real thing, and scores you at the end. Brutal on purpose.

See a UI you like? Describe it and rebuild it instead of starting from a blank page.

Stuck? Explain the problem to it out loud. It asks the questions that make you find your own bug — and only steps in when you're truly stuck.

Stop guessing. Give it the symptom and the code — it ranks the likely causes and tells you the one thing to test next. Diagnoses before it touches a fix.