Building a first version has never been faster. Tools like Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and Replit turn a description into a working product in an afternoon, and that is a real achievement: you have learned whether anyone wants the thing.
What they do not produce is the part nobody prompts for — authorisation that lives on the server, secrets that are not shipped to the browser, separate environments, store compliance, and a codebase that can still be changed next month. We wrote up exactly where that gap is for websites and for mobile apps.
Rescue: harden what you have
We do not start with a rewrite. Your prototype encodes real decisions about the product. We keep them and fix what was never in the prompt, in order of what cannot be undone:
- Secrets moved off the client and rotated.
- Authorisation enforced on the server and in the database.
- Production separated from development, with tested backups.
- Monitoring, so you hear about failures before your customers do.
- Store review, performance, SEO and accessibility.
- Tests and consolidation, so the next feature costs what the first one did.
You get a written assessment first, with the findings in that order and an effort estimate for each.
MVP: build it right the first time
If you are starting from an idea, we scope the smallest product that tests it, agree that scope in writing, and build it to production standard from day one — on the same stack we would use for version ten. It ships to the stores or the web with monitoring, and without a rewrite waiting for you at the first real traction.