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Practical launch guides

Focused pages for the production gaps repeatedly missed by AI-built apps.

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AI-built app production-readiness checklist

A launch order covering ownership, security, data, revenue and operations.

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Prototype vs production app

What changes when an app receives real users and persistent data.

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Environment variables and secrets

Separate preview and production values, rotate credentials and prevent client exposure.

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Supabase RLS before launch

Treat browser-hidden UI as presentation, not authorization.

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OAuth redirects on custom domains

Align callback URLs across preview and production environments.

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Database migrations for AI-built apps

Version schema changes and avoid editing production tables manually.

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Backups are incomplete without restore tests

Define retention, ownership and recovery objectives.

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Verify payment webhooks

Authenticate events, handle retries and make processing idempotent.

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Transactional email setup

Sender domain, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, templates and bounce handling.

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Monitoring before launch

Capture errors, releases, uptime and owner alerts before traffic arrives.

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Rate limits for AI-built apps

Protect auth, uploads, APIs and model spend from abuse.

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Custom domain launch checklist

DNS ownership, TLS, redirects, canonical host and renewal.

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Do you need a staging environment?

Separate risky tests from production data and credentials.

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AI builder lock-in checklist

Check code export, data export, domain ownership and migration path.

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Export an AI-built app to GitHub

Establish source ownership, review history and external deploy paths.

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Cold starts and sleeping services

Match hosting behavior to user expectations and background jobs.

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Cron jobs and background workers

Move long-running tasks out of request handlers.

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Secure file uploads

Limit type, size, access, retention and malware handling.

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Create a simple data map

Know which user data is collected, stored, shared and deleted.

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Production error states

Handle expired sessions, failed payments, offline states and empty data.

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Create a rollback plan

Define deploy, database and configuration rollback separately.

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Cloud cost guardrails

Budgets, quotas, rate limits and usage alerts for early-stage apps.

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Analytics events before launch

Track activation and revenue without collecting unnecessary data.

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Why app email goes to spam

Authentication, reputation, content and bounce suppression.

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Multi-tenant security basics

Enforce tenant boundaries server-side on every data path.

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Secure admin access

Separate admin authorization, logging and recovery.

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Dependency and package review

Remove unused packages and inspect known vulnerabilities.

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Launch-day operations plan

Owners, dashboards, rollback trigger and support channel.

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First seven days after launch

Review errors, conversion, support, costs and failed jobs.

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Choose hosting by runtime

Static, serverless, containers, workers and long-running processes need different platforms.

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