Vibe coding cleanup and rescue for apps that already take money

You built the product with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0 or Cursor, and people pay for it. Now payments fail without a trace, errors go unseen and you learn about downtime from customers. We take the app over as it is, make it reliable while it keeps running, rewrite only the parts that cannot be saved, and stay on to support it.

What you get

  • Every payment accounted for

    Paid, failed and refunded orders match what your payment provider recorded, and a payment that does not add up is flagged, not lost. Our own payment service works this way: it verifies the signature on every notification from the provider and checks the paid amount against the order before marking it paid.

  • Every error reaches a person

    When something breaks, the report says which user hit it and at which step, and it goes to someone who can fix it. You stop finding out from a support email a week later.

  • Downtime alerts within minutes

    A check from outside opens the app the way a customer does, around the clock. When it stops answering, the alert reaches us and you within minutes. On our own payment service every paid order sends the team a Telegram message as soon as it is confirmed.

  • Numbers you can read without a developer

    One dashboard with revenue, sign-ups, failed payments and errors by day. You see whether a release helped or hurt, and at which step users leave before paying.

  • Screens that don’t lose customers

    We fix the steps where users leave without paying: sign-up, checkout, the app on a phone. Slow loading, forms that lose what was typed, blank error screens. Mismatched buttons and styles become one set of components.

  • Backups, secrets and safe releases

    Daily backups that we restore once to prove they work, keys and passwords moved out of the code, and releases that go out automatically with the previous version ready for rollback. We run our own site and payment service the same way: secrets are stored encrypted, and GitHub Actions builds and deploys every release.

  • Code and accounts in your name

    The repository, hosting, domain and payment account belong to you, with a written handover: what runs where, how to release, who to call. If you later hire your own developer, they start from that document.

How we work

  1. Review the code, the money flow and the user path

    You give us read access; we go through the code, the database, the payment setup, the hosting and the screens users pass on the way to paying. You get a written list of risks ordered by harm: what loses money or data today, and what can wait.

  2. Stabilise the live app

    We fix the payment path first, then add error reports, downtime alerts, backups and the dashboard. All of it goes into the app you have, so users keep working.

  3. Rewrite only what fails

    Parts that cannot be made reliable are rebuilt one at a time behind the same screens, with data and accounts kept. Where the AI tool's code is sound, it stays.

  4. Hand over

    Access, documentation and the dashboard are yours. We walk you through what changed and what each alert means.

  5. Support

    We watch the alerts, fix what breaks and ship new features when you need them. You can stop after any step and keep everything built so far.

Questions we get asked

Can you fix my vibe-coded app, or does it need a rewrite?

Most apps need a fix, not a rewrite. A full rebuild is justified when the data model is broken at the root or the app sits on a platform it cannot leave. After the review you get a list: what we fix in place, what we rebuild and why. Screens and flows that work are left alone.

What is vibe coding cleanup?

Vibe coding is building software by describing it to an AI tool such as Lovable, Bolt, Replit or Cursor. Cleanup is the engineering the tool skipped: payment handling that survives a failed or repeated notification, access rules on the data, error reports, backups, and tests on the paths that earn money. Rescue goes further and covers hosting, releases and support after the fix.

Which tools and stacks do you take over?

Apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, Cursor or Claude Code, most often React or Next.js with Supabase or Firebase and Stripe. The first step is always the same: the code moves to a repository you own. If the app cannot be exported from its builder, we tell you after the review, before any work starts.

Will my users notice the work?

Fewer failures. Screens change only with your approval, where the numbers show users leaving. Changes go out in small releases, each one can be rolled back, and risky parts are rebuilt next to the old ones and switched over once they pass the same checks. Work that needs a pause is agreed with you first and done in your quietest hours.

Is a vibe-coded app safe to take payments?

Not until someone has checked. The common faults are secret keys shipped to the browser, database tables that any signed-in user can read, and payment notifications accepted without verifying who sent them. The review covers these three first, because they lose money or data. Our own payment service rejects any notification whose signature does not match.

What breaks first when a vibe-coded app goes live

Who owns the code and the accounts?

You do. The repository, hosting, domain and payment account are registered to you, and we work in them as invited members. If we part ways, you remove our access and keep everything.

How long does it take?

The review comes first and is the short part. Stabilising depends on what it finds: how payments are wired, how much data there is and how many integrations the app has. You get a timeline for your app together with the list of risks, and the fixes that stop money loss go first.

How much does it cost to fix a vibe-coded app?

It depends on what the review finds: the state of the payment path, how much code has to be rebuilt and how many integrations there are. You get an estimate for your app after the review, split by step, so you can stop after stabilising if that is enough.

What does support cover?

Watching the alerts, fixing what breaks, updating dependencies, restoring from a backup if it comes to that, and building new features on request. You have one contact: a partner who knows your app.

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