BEFORE YOU GO LIVE
For AI-assisted builders shipping real products

Your app works. That's not the same as ready.

Before You Go Live is a 23-doc production-readiness doctrine: the auth, secrets, scaling, cost-control and deploy checks that separate a demo from a business. Each doc is a ~45-second read with checks you can run today.

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Instant download after checkout. Founding price $29 (launch price is $49). 30-day no-questions refund.
Only need one topic? Buy any single doc for $5 in the store → · Or start free: run the interactive Go-Live Checklist →

Vibe-coded apps all break the same ways

AI gets you to a working app in a weekend. Then real users arrive, and the failures are boringly predictable — the same ten holes, every time:

Auth that only looks rightWorks for your demo account. At a thousand concurrent users, user A is staring at user B's dashboard.
Secrets in the repoOne leaked key and your API bill — or your database — belongs to someone else.
The invisible AI billUncapped LLM endpoints where a single loop, or a single abuser, spends your month's margin overnight.
The scaling cliffEverything is fine at 10 users, and on fire at 1,000 — with no logs to tell you why.

The doctrine is the checklist run before each of these becomes an incident — distilled to the handful of checks per topic that actually catch the failure.

What's inside — all 23 docs

AuthenticationSecrets & KeysWeb VulnerabilitiesSupply ChainSecurityScalingCost ControlObservabilityDatabaseDeploymentReleaseTestingArchitectureComplianceDocumentation
  1. 01Broken AuthAuthentication
  2. 02Auth That Looks RightAuthentication
  3. 03Auth At ScaleAuthentication
  4. 04Leaking SecretsSecrets & Keys
  5. 05Input ValidationWeb Vulnerabilities
  6. 06Dependency AuditSupply Chain
  7. 07The Security ChecklistSecurity
  8. 08State Of AI Code SecuritySecurity
  9. 09The Scaling CliffScaling
  10. 10The API WallScaling
  11. 11Controlling API CostsCost Control
  12. 12The Prompt BillCost Control
  13. 13The Logging Black HoleObservability
  14. 14Real LoggingObservability
  15. 15The Database Time BombDatabase
  16. 16Deployment RouletteDeployment
  17. 17Feature FlagsRelease
  18. 18The Demo TrapTesting
  19. 19The 80 Percent WallProduction Readiness
  20. 20API-First ArchitectureArchitecture
  21. 21You Can't Bolt AI OnArchitecture
  22. 22Passing App ReviewCompliance
  23. 23Built To Hand OffDocumentation

Read one free — Doctrine No. 01: Broken Auth

Every doc follows the same pattern: the failure mode, why you never see it coming, and the concrete checks that catch it. From No. 01:

Run the logout test. Log in, copy the URL, log out, then paste the URL back. If the page still loads, you don't have auth — you have a door with no lock.
Download the free sample (PDF) → Run the free interactive checklist →

Founding price — first buyers

$29 $49

  • All 23 doctrine one-pagers as branded PDFs
  • The combined Season 1 PDF (cover to cover)
  • The run-it-yourself checks for every topic
  • The consolidated go-live checklist
  • Free updates to the Season 1 docs
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