Vibe-coded app to production

Vibe-coded prototypes ship fast in chat UIs—they often lack production posture: secrets in client bundles, missing auth boundaries, or deploy scripts that only work on one laptop. PunkSolid moves those repos toward production in Cursor with human review on the paths that carry money or personal data.

Typical starting points

Clients arrive with exports from Lovable, Bolt, v0, or agent sessions that never faced staging traffic. Some are marketing sites that need SEO and analytics; those may shift toward website development once the prototype stabilizes. Product-shaped repos stay in this service until auth, logging, and CI are trustworthy.

What hardening includes

We document findings from an initial audit: dependency risks, environment variable handling, database migrations, and payment or CRM integrations. Implementation follows our methodology—specs for risky changes, automated link and type checks where the stack allows.

Spec-driven development helps when the prototype never had written acceptance criteria. We add them before expanding scope.

Connection to migration work

Large content properties sometimes start as vibe-coded microsites, then join a wider WordPress exit. The healthcare WordPress rebuilds case study shows the bar for tracking and performance on clinical sites: GTM, GA4, consent, call tracking, and HIPAA-aware forms must survive launch. Prototypes bound for those environments need the same discipline before they touch patient data.

We count nine rebuilt sites in client and network proof points, with confidential traffic figures where required.

Review vs rescue

AI code review delivers a structured findings report and fix recommendations. This service includes engineering time to apply fixes, add tests, and document deploy steps. Choose review-only when your team will implement; choose production rescue when you need hands-on delivery.

Handoff and coaching

You receive repositories and runbooks—not a hosted black box—with code ownership of the hardened source at handoff. Optional 1:1 Cursor coaching helps your developers keep shipping after rescue. We do not quote fixed rescue prices without seeing the prototype.

Next steps

Compare custom software development when the prototype is mostly integrations or workers. Use contact with repo access and launch constraints.

Common audit findings

Repeated issues include API keys in front-end bundles, missing server-side validation on forms, absent rate limits on public routes, and deploy instructions that assume a single developer laptop. Rescue work closes those gaps before marketing sends traffic. When prototypes back patient intake or billing, compare requirements to the tracking and forms discipline in healthcare WordPress rebuilds.

Environments and secrets

We expect separate staging and production credentials, documented in the runbook—not only in a .env.example from an agent session. Rotation steps and who owns vendor dashboards should be clear at handoff.

Tooling names

Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, and Claude Code are vendor or product names used nominatively. PunkSolid does not claim partnership with those companies. Rescue pricing and calendars are quoted after audit, not on this page.

Tests we prioritize first

Signup and login, password reset, payment intent creation, webhook signature verification, and admin-only routes get automated coverage before cosmetic polish. Visual regressions can follow once functional smoke tests are green. If the prototype never had tests, we add a thin critical-path suite rather than claim blanket coverage.

Coordination with design

Designers may still work in Figma while engineers harden code. We separate token updates from auth refactors so releases stay small. Public pages pulled from the prototype inherit SEO checks from website development when they are part of the same launch.

Rate limits on public APIs, CAPTCHA or Turnstile on forms, and basic abuse monitoring are in scope when the prototype faces the open internet. Rescue does not stop at “it compiles on my machine.”

If stakeholders confuse lab Lighthouse scores with Search Console Core Web Vitals, we document both on a short performance readme so executives do not misread launch metrics.

Staging data should exclude production PHI or PII unless legal approves; we prefer synthetic fixtures during rescue so agents never summarize real patient records in chat logs.

Link the prototype repository on contact when you want the audit scheduled. Mention compliance rules if the prototype will handle regulated data after rescue. Read methodology for the review sequence we apply after the initial audit pass. Pair audit findings with AI code review if you want a report before implementation hours begin.