Security and privacy
Auth, permissions, secrets, client/server trust boundaries, data exposure, and dependency risk.
For founders shipping AI-built software
AI-Built App Launch Readiness Reviews
Get a practical technical review before customers, investors, or production traffic find the weak spots. vibeCleaners identifies fragile code, security gaps, scaling risks, and the fixes that matter first.
- 3-5 days
- typical turnaround
- $250
- pilot reviews
- $500
- standard reviews
The problem
AI can get your app working. It does not prove the app is ready.
Generated software often passes the demo path while hiding weak auth boundaries, missing validation, brittle deployment setup, duplicated business rules, and unclear data risk. The review gives you a clear fix order before launch pressure makes every decision more expensive.
What gets reviewed
A practical pass across the places vibe-coded apps usually break.
Data and correctness
Validation, schema design, migrations, critical writes, business rules, and edge cases.
Architecture
Generated code sprawl, module boundaries, duplicated logic, coupling, and maintainability.
Scalability
Expensive queries, background work, caching, bottlenecks, and paths from MVP to real usage.
Operations
Environment setup, deploys, rollbacks, logs, error monitoring, CI, and production readiness.
Product risk
Critical user flows, launch blockers, user-visible failure modes, and what can safely wait.
Packages
Start with a bounded review. Turn findings into fixes when needed.
Best first step
Launch Readiness Review
$500
Risk-ranked findings, evidence, launch blocker list, improvement roadmap, and async email follow-up.
Request reviewFirst 2 customers
Pilot Review
$250
A discounted launch readiness review in exchange for permission to use an anonymized testimonial or case study.
Ask about pilotFollow-on work
Stabilization Sprint
$1,200+
Implementation support for the highest-priority findings: tests, hardening, refactors, deployment, or scaling work.
Scope a sprintPrices are starting points, not the final number. After a quick look at the app's size and stack, you get a fixed quote confirmed in writing before any payment — no open-ended billing, no surprises.
Deliverable
You get a fix order, not a pile of vague cleanup notes.
The report separates confirmed risks from assumptions, explains customer impact, and turns findings into a roadmap for launch, the next 30 days, and later scaling.
View sample report
Priority
Area
Action
1
Security
Enforce server-side admin checks.
2
Data
Add validation to critical writes.
3
Ops
Add structured error tracking.
4
Code
Consolidate duplicated business rules.
Process
Simple enough to start this week.
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01
Intake
Share the app, repo access, goals, stack, deadlines, and known concerns.
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02
Review
I inspect critical flows, code structure, security boundaries, data, deployment, and operations.
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03
Report
You receive prioritized findings with evidence, impact, effort, confidence, and recommended fixes.
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04
Stabilize
If useful, the highest-priority findings become a focused implementation sprint.
Who reviews this
A real engineer reads your code — not a script.
About the reviewer
Russel Waters — the engineer who reads your app.
I've spent roughly 15 years building and operating production software — most recently designing real-time data systems that move 200TB+ at sub-millisecond latency, and as a senior infrastructure engineer hardening Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, and observability. Earlier I was Lead DevOps at NowSecure, a mobile app-security company, and have implemented the OAuth2/OIDC auth systems that apps most often get wrong.
The review is the same pass I'd run on my own code before handing it to real users: where the trust boundaries leak, what falls over under load, and what's quietly unmaintainable. I write about exactly this — the gap between "it works" and "it's ready" — at blog.argakiig.xyz.
Read-only by default
Access is scoped to the minimum needed — read-only repo access or a shared snapshot. No write access, no production credentials.
Your code stays yours
Your code is used only to perform your review. It is not shared, published, or reused. Access is revoked once the report is delivered.
NDA on request
Happy to sign your NDA before you share anything, or use a mutual one. Just say so in the request and we sort it before access.
Writing
Notes on the gap between "it works" and "it's ready."
"It works" is not "it's ready."
The demo is the easy 80%. Where AI-built apps actually break before launch — and why it becomes a trust problem, not a code problem.
The code looks fine. That's the problem.
AI made obvious bugs rare and expensive ones invisible. Review moved up the stack, from implementation to judgment.
What I look for when reviewing AI-built apps.
The five-step triage I actually work through, hardest-hitting risk first, when I review an AI-built app.
FAQ
Direct answers for founders with AI-built apps.
What is a launch readiness review?
A practical technical review before real users rely on the app. You get risk-ranked findings, evidence, launch blockers, and a prioritized fix roadmap.
Is this a security audit?
It includes security and privacy review, but it is not a formal penetration test or compliance certification.
Do I need a phone call?
No. The default flow is async: request form, email clarification, scope confirmation, review, and written report.
What tools and apps are a fit?
Apps built with AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Claude, ChatGPT, or similar workflows are a strong fit.
What do I get?
A written report covering security, data, architecture, operations, scalability, maintainability, launch blockers, and what to fix first.
Can you fix the issues too?
Yes. If the review identifies high-priority fixes, those can become a separate stabilization sprint.
Request a review
Tell me what you built and what you are worried about.
This form is intentionally short. After you send it, the next step is confirming scope, access, timing, and whether a launch review or stabilization sprint is the right fit by email.
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