AI wrote your app.
I'll keep it alive in production.
Anyone can vibe-code a working app in a weekend now. Deploying it safely, monitoring it, making sure it survives real users — that's still real engineering.
Bring your laptop app. 10 business days later it's running, monitored, backed up, and alerting you when it breaks. Not a course. Not a template. Done-for-you.
Want to know who I am first? Full background →
Why
Every vibe-coded app dies the same way.
Step 1 is yours (and AI's). Steps 2–10 are where most projects quietly die. This is the threat map. Color tells you what kills you.
Vibe-code your app
AI does this- Claude Code, Cursor, Bolt, v0, Lovable, Replit — pick your poison
- Great — you built something that works on your laptop
- This part is easy and getting easier every week
Security audit
Silent killer- Secrets in git history (API keys, DB URLs, JWT secrets)
- Missing authentication on admin routes
- SQL injection / XSS / CSRF holes AI happily generates
- Public S3 buckets, open database ports, CORS set to *
Architecture & bug audit
Breaks at scale- Race conditions, N+1 queries, missing transaction boundaries
- State management that looks fine until 10 concurrent users
- Error handling that swallows exceptions silently
- Architectural decisions AI made to avoid complexity that now hurt you
Containerize & reproducibly build
Not just a Dockerfile- Multi-stage builds that actually produce small images
- Secrets management (not baked into the image)
- Reproducible builds that work on your machine AND prod
- Base images that don't ship with known CVEs
Deploy to production
K8s or managed — your call- My battle-tested production-grade self-managed K8s cluster — OR your Fly / Railway / DigitalOcean / Vercel
- Ingress, TLS (Cloudflare or Caddy), real DNS, real domain
- Secrets via Vault or External Secrets Operator — not .env files
- Zero-downtime deploys, rollbacks in one command
Health checks & uptime
So you know it's alive- /healthz + /readyz that actually test the real dependencies
- Uptime monitoring (Better Stack or self-hosted Uptime Kuma)
- Alerts on your phone — SMS, Pushover, or PagerDuty
- No more 'my app was down for 6h and I didn't know'
Error monitoring & logs
So you know what's broken- Sentry or GlitchTip for exceptions, grouped and deduplicated
- Structured logs going somewhere you can grep
- Slack/Discord/email alerts on new error types
- Release tracking — 'this bug started with deploy v0.4.2'
Backups & disaster recovery
Silent killer- Automated Postgres dumps to off-provider storage (S3, Backblaze)
- Automated restore test — so you know backups actually work
- A documented 'we lost prod' runbook
- Point-in-time recovery for the day you drop a table at 2am
CI/CD + observability
So you can keep shipping- Push to main → tests run → deploy — without your laptop involved
- Preview environments for each PR
- Metrics dashboard (Grafana) on the stuff you actually care about
- A runbook so YOU can operate it after I hand it over
In production. Actually.
Your app is alive- Monitored. Backed up. Reproducible. Alerted.
- Secrets out of git. TLS everywhere. Auth on every sensitive route.
- You can ship updates without calling me
- You can sleep at night
Steps 2 through 9 are where vibe-coded apps die in public. Every red card is a silent killer. Every orange card breaks at scale. Every amber card is you flying blind.
How
10 business days. Four phases. Zero handwaving.
You send me your repo access. I run this exact timeline. You know what's happening every day, no black-box consulting.
Audit
I read your repo. Security, arch, bugs. I send you a written report.
- Secrets + auth sweep
- Architecture review
- Prioritized fix list
- Go/no-go decision
Build
I fix what I found. Containerize. Set up monitoring, backups, CI/CD.
- Security fixes
- Dockerfile + reproducible build
- Monitoring + alerts
- Backup + restore test
Deploy
We go live. Real domain, real TLS, real traffic. Smoke-tested.
- Production deploy
- DNS + TLS + Cloudflare
- Rollback path tested
- Load-test OK
Handover
You get credentials, runbook, recorded walkthrough. 30 days of on-call starts.
- Credentials + access
- Written runbook
- Video walkthrough
- 30-day Discord support starts
Who's doing this for you?
I'm Victor García — a decade as a backend engineer, running Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch in production every day at Range Security. Founder of Totem Labs Forge (ERA live on Google Play, Forgetty — 38K Rust LOC in 24 days on GitHub).
Not a course creator. Not a freelancer who disappears after delivery. A senior platform engineer who happens to sell the thing I already do for a living.
How much
One-time payment. No surprises.
Ship-to-Live Core ($1,500) is the right starting point for most. Launch ($2,500) if you have a Product Hunt / Show HN date locked in. All prices one-time — ongoing retainers optional (see below).
Audit
$497
one-time2-hour live audit over Zoom + written report
Who it's for: You want a senior second-pair-of-eyes on your app — you'll implement fixes yourself (or upgrade to Core)
- Live 2-hour Zoom audit — I walk through your repo with you
- Security holes, architectural landmines, and obvious bugs surfaced
- Written report — prioritized fix list, ranked by severity
- Specific, actionable recommendations (not generic advice)
- Recording of the Zoom so you can rewatch
- Credit applied if you upgrade to Core within 14 days (you pay $1,003 more)
Ship-to-Live Core
$1,500
one-timeDone-for-you: I take your app from laptop to live in 10 days
Who it's for: You have a working app, real users or a launch coming up, and you want it to not fall over
- Code audit — security, architecture, bugs (includes the $497 Audit)
- Containerization — working Dockerfile for your stack
- Deploy to production — my K8s cluster OR your cloud of choice
- Full monitoring — Uptime Kuma + Sentry + alerts to your phone
- Backups + verified restore test — actually tested, not a wish
- CI/CD pipeline — push to main, deploy
- 30 days of post-launch support — Discord + email, 24h SLA
- Handover runbook — so you can operate it yourself after
- Delivered in 10 business days from kickoff
Ship-to-Live Launch
$2,500
one-timeYour launch is imminent. This is the war-room package.
Who it's for: You have a Product Hunt / Show HN / public launch date locked in — and if your app falls over in front of 10K visitors, that story is permanent.
+$1,000 buys you launch-day survival
- Delivered in 5 business days — 2x faster than Core
- Pre-launch load test — I simulate your launch-day spike, show you where it breaks, fix it, retest
- 48-hour launch-weekend war room — I'm in your Discord/Slack across launch day with <30-min response SLA
- Cloudflare aggressive tier — rate limiting, bot blocking, caching rules tuned for viral traffic
- Launch-day status page + incident templates — pre-built — no composing tweets at 2am
- User comms drafted for you — "brief issue, now fixed" + "thanks for the support" posts ready to copy-paste
- Post-launch debrief — 3 days after, we review what worked, what nearly broke, what to harden next
- Also included (from Core):
- Everything in Ship-to-Live Core (audit, containerize, deploy, monitoring, backups, CI/CD, handover runbook)
- 30 days of post-launch support (covers your launch week + 3 weeks after)
Stripe / bank transfer / SEPA — whichever works for you · Invoice on request
After the 30-day support window
So what happens on day 31?
Core includes 30 days of post-launch support. Plus includes 60. After that, you pick one of four paths — transparent, pre-priced, no auto-renewals.
Migrate out
$300
one-timeClean handover. You run it on your own cloud.
- I help you move everything from my infra to yours over 2 days
- You receive all credentials, runbook, and a video walkthrough
- Clean break — no ongoing obligation either way
- Recommended for most customers after successful launch
Ongoing Ops
$500/mo
recurringStay on my infra. I stay on call.
- Your app stays on my Kubernetes cluster + Sentry + monitoring
- Up to 4 hours/month of my time for bug fixes, ops response, small updates
- 24h response SLA on weekdays
- Monthly ops review — what broke, what to fix next
- Dependency + security updates included
- Cancel anytime, no contract — switch to Migrate out whenever
Ongoing Ops Plus
$1,500/mo
recurringEffectively your part-time platform engineer.
- Everything in Ongoing Ops
- Up to 12 hours/month of my time
- Feature work, refactors, scaling, perf tuning — I help where you need
- For apps that ship often and want a steady hand on the infra
- Cancel anytime
Decommission
Free
one-timeYou're done with the app.
- I shut everything down on day 30
- You take your DB dump and any files I'm holding
- No ongoing cost on either side
- Honest: if your app didn't work out, this is a fine outcome
I tell you at day 20 what I'd recommend, you pick at day 30. Default if you don't reply: I'll assume Migrate-out and start the handover — no silent recurring charges.
Questions I get
What happens on day 31 — do I keep paying you forever?+
No. On day 31 you choose one of four paths, all transparent and pre-priced: (1) Migrate out — $300 one-time, I help you move everything to your own cloud over 2 days, clean break. (2) Ongoing Ops — $500/mo, your app stays on my cluster + my monitoring, 4h/mo of my time, cancel anytime. (3) Ongoing Ops Plus — $1,500/mo, 12h/mo, effectively your part-time platform engineer. (4) Decommission — free, I shut everything down if the project didn't work out. No auto-renewals, no lock-in. I tell you at day 20 what I'd recommend, you pick at day 30.
Can't Claude / Cursor / Bolt deploy my app for me too?+
They can spit out a Dockerfile and a Vercel config. They can't look at your database URL in your repo history and tell you it's been leaking for 3 weeks. They can't look at your Supabase row-level-security policy and notice it's been bypassed. They can't call you when your app is down. AI is genuinely great for generating code. It is genuinely bad at every part of operating that code in production.
Why is the Audit $497 and not cheaper?+
Because it's 2 hours of focused senior-engineer time + a written report ranking every problem I found. That's roughly 4 hours of my time plus ~$50 of tools. If $497 stings but you need help, the free public repo (github.com/vikgmdev/ship-to-live) has the same checklists and playbooks — you just have to run them yourself.
I'm on Vercel / Railway / Fly and it 'just works'. Why do I need you?+
If it really just works and you have monitoring, backups you've test-restored, auth you've audited, and alerts that wake you up — you don't. Most 'vibe-coded apps on Vercel' have none of those. The question is what happens when it stops 'just working' — do you know? Do you know within 30 seconds? Do you have the logs to diagnose it?
Do you work with my stack (Next.js / Rails / Django / Go / whatever)?+
Yes. The stack matters less than the category. If it's a web app, API, or mobile backend, I can deploy it. Rust / Go / Node / Python / Ruby / Elixir — all fine. React / Vue / Svelte — all fine. I've shipped Forgetty (Rust), ERA (Next.js + Python AI), and Range's platform (NestJS) to production.
How is this not just 'hire a DevOps freelancer'?+
Freelancers you'd pay $3K on Upwork often deliver a working deploy and disappear. You have no one to call at 3am when it breaks. Ship-to-Live is priced lower and includes 30 days of 'I fix it when it breaks' built in. After that you can retain me monthly or take the runbook and operate it yourself.
How many customers can you take at once?+
5 Ship-to-Live engagements in parallel, max. I'm one person. If capacity is full, I'll say so and put you on a short waitlist.
What if my app is a mess? Is there a minimum bar?+
No minimum. In fact, the messier it is, the more value I add. What I won't do: build the product for you. You bring a working-on-your-laptop app; I get it to production. Bringing me a blank screen is a different engagement.
Timeline?+
Audit: 2-hour Zoom, scheduled within 3 days of payment. Ship-to-Live Core: 10 business days from kickoff to live-in-prod. Ship-to-Live Launch: 5 business days (rush).
My launch is in 4 days. Can you still help?+
Yes, but at emergency rates. If your launch is in <5 business days from today, add $500 to the Launch tier price ($3,000 total) — that's my rush fee for dropping everything else. If your launch is in 2 days or less, email me first with 'LAUNCH FIRE' in the subject; I'll tell you honestly whether we can still pull it off.
Refund policy?+
Audit ($497): no refunds once the Zoom is done. Core / Launch: 50% refund if I don't deliver within the agreed timeline for reasons under my control. If your app has a fundamental architectural issue that makes production impossible without a rewrite, I'll tell you on Day 1 and refund in full. Ongoing Ops: cancel any time, pro-rated refund for the current month.
Your app deserves to live.
Send me what you built. I'll tell you honestly whether Ship-to-Live is the right fit, and if not, what you should do instead. No pressure.
I reply within 24 hours on weekdays.