Shared checklist · Ship gates
A vibe MVP is not shipped when the preview URL looks finished. Treat ship as a go/no-go ritual: freeze the cut, prove provenance, clear store or domain gates, smoke the critical path, and name who can reverse the release before the first stranger lands.
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CodeCross LLC’s ship checklist for vibe-coded products is the release, store, and rollback gate that turns a working demo into a cut you can put on a real domain—or App Store / Play—without guessing. We cover freeze criteria, build provenance, listing and privacy readiness, smoke paths, and a documented rollback so Lovable, Bolt, Rork, or v0 MVPs do not “ship” as irreversible deploys. Intent is ship gates, not a full platform exit.
What ship actually means
Prompt loops optimize for a path that works in a friendly environment. Shipping is a ritual with owners: freeze, provenance, listing truth, smoke, and a reverse you can execute without the person who prompted the feature.
If scope is still moving, you are demoing. Write what is in the cut, what is explicitly out, and who can add a last-minute change.
Name the tagged artifact, the commit, and the environment it was built for. A generator preview that cannot be rebuilt is not a release candidate.
Privacy copy, nutrition labels, and account-deletion paths have to match what the binary actually collects. Store review fails the launch window when that story is invented later.
Keep the prior artifact warm. Document DNS, flag, or store-halt steps. Freeze irreversible deletes until soak time passes.
The ritual
Adjust the order for web versus store. Do not skip a gate because the screenshot looks done. The deliverable is a cut you can reverse.
01
Name product, release, and rollback owners. Stop unreviewed feature expansion while the candidate is proven.
02
Preview is not production. Confirm secrets, feature flags, and integrations match the shape you will serve — minus production credentials.
03
Domain or App Store / Play ownership, privacy text that matches collection, and a binary that can survive review — not a web preview link pasted into a store form.
04
Sign-in, the primary write, the paid or invite path, and the integration you cannot fake. Then walk the reverse once, on the clock.
How to
A pass/fail release ritual. The output is a tagged cut with a named rollback owner — not a polish punch list.
Step 01
Write what is in this release, what is explicitly out, and who may add a last-minute change. Stop prompt-loop feature expansion while the candidate is under review.
Step 02
Produce a tagged artifact from a known commit. Confirm preview is not production: secrets, flags, and integrations share shape, not production credentials.
Step 03
Own the domain or the App Store / Play accounts. Make privacy and listing copy match real collection. For Rork or hybrid products, treat submission and rejection remediation as part of this ritual.
Step 04
Exercise sign-in, authorization, the primary write, and the integration you cannot stub. Record what failed instead of assuming the preview covered it.
Step 05
Keep the prior artifact warm. Document DNS, feature-flag, or store-halt revert steps. Freeze irreversible deletes until soak time passes. Do not call the cut shipped until someone else can follow the reverse.
Read next
These pages are already on the site. Use them to pressure-test the bet before a call.
What production-ready means after vibe coding (2026)
The operating contract this ship ritual is aiming at.
Production-ready after vibe coding
The definition and week-one questions behind the gate.
Rork to production
When the cut is a store binary, not only a domain.
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Internals
Stay inside the vibe-coding cluster, or open booking and the Austin money page.
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Shared intents, checklists, and the eight builder packs.
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Secrets, auth boundaries, and a short threat pass.
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Owned pipeline before you promote the cut.
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When the prior step was a Bolt-specific wrap.
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When the prior step was a Lovable-specific wrap.
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Walk the freeze, the artifact, and the reverse in thirty minutes.
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Freeze scope, a tagged reproducible build, env parity so preview is not production, a critical-path smoke, privacy and listing copy that matches real data collection, and a named rollback owner. CodeCross LLC treats those as pass/fail gates—not a polish punch list—so launches do not invent process after users arrive.
Store releases need account ownership, privacy nutrition labels, account-deletion paths where required, and a binary that survives review—not a web preview link. For Rork or hybrid products, CodeCross LLC folds submission and rejection remediation into the same ship ritual so review loops do not burn the launch window.
Keep the prior artifact warm, document DNS or feature-flag revert steps, and freeze irreversible deletes until soak time passes. CodeCross LLC will not call a vibe MVP shipped until rollback is written down—especially after Bolt preview exits or a first v0/Next production promote.
Hardening reduces launch-blocking risk (auth, secrets, rate limits, recovery). The ship checklist is the final go/no-go for release, stores, and rollback. We often harden first, then run this ritual; when the prior step was tool-specific, open /vibe-coding/bolt-mvp-hardening or /vibe-coding/lovable-mvp-hardening.
Bring the candidate cut and the store or domain story. We will name the gate that is still a guess — or tell you the ritual is already enough.
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