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Checklist

The launch-risk checklist for half-built AI apps

Use this as the practical version of the Survive the Vibe thesis: a quick way to spot hidden launch risk in the parts of the product that matter most.

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Users

Can people sign up, recover from errors, and complete the core flow without staff rescue?

Money

Would you trust payments, entitlements, retries, and failure cases under real usage?

Operations

Can someone besides the original builder explain how this deploys and where the risk lives?

What this checklist covers

  • Onboarding reliability and edge-case recovery
  • Auth, permissions, and role behavior outside the happy path
  • Billing, webhooks, plan changes, and entitlement logic
  • Deploy confidence, rollback readiness, and ownership clarity
  • Whether the product is ready for rescue, refactor, or a more serious rebuild decision

How to use it

If several items feel shaky, treat that as signal instead of shame. The goal is not to produce panic. The goal is to make the risky parts visible before customers do it for you.

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