Is Your Vibe-Coded App Ready to Ship?

You are the solo founder of an AI-powered scheduling app, built over 4 weekends using Cursor + Claude. The app works. You have: fast onboarding, calendar sync, AI-suggested meeting times, a Stripe checkout, basic auth. ~12 friends are using it daily and loving it. You haven't told anyone outside that circle.

You're considering a Product Hunt launch this Thursday. You also haven't done any of the following: written a privacy policy, set up error monitoring, run a security audit, written terms of service, set up customer support, run any accessibility checks, added rate limiting on the API, or shipped a custom 404 page. Your default favicon is the Next.js logo and your meta tags say "Create Next App".

The principle: Speed of building is now uncoupled from quality of shipping. AI-assisted code generation produces working prototypes faster than any prior tooling — but working ≠ shippable. The new founder skill is knowing what to slow down on after the build is fast.