AI-built prototype to production — launch in three weeks
SaaS founder, pre-revenue · Technology
A founder had a working prototype built in Cursor — demo-ready but nowhere near production. Exposed API keys in repo, no CI/CD, Supabase RLS untested, and a launch date already promised to early customers.
The problem
The app worked on localhost. Production hosting, environment separation, secrets management, database backups, and basic security were all missing. Founder was one bad deploy away from a public incident.
Constraints
- — Launch date in three weeks — non-negotiable
- — Limited budget — pre-revenue
- — Must pass basic security review for first enterprise pilot
Approach
Step 1
Readiness audit
Code and architecture review — auth, RLS policies, secrets, dependencies, and deployment gaps ranked by launch blocker severity.
Step 2
Pipeline & hosting
GitHub Actions CI/CD, staging and production environments, GCP/Supabase hosting, domain and SSL, environment variable management.
Step 3
Security pass
Automated scan plus manual review of auth boundaries and RLS. Critical findings remediated before go-live.
Deliverables
- Production deployment on agreed stack
- CI/CD pipeline with staging gate
- Secrets removed from codebase
- Security findings report + fixes
- Launch runbook and handover
Results
- Time to live
- Production in 3 weeks from audit start
- Security
- Critical RLS and auth issues closed pre-launch
- Enterprise pilot
- Passed customer security questionnaire
- Founder focus
- Back on product — not firefighting infra
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