afterbuild/ops
§ RS-00/resources · hub

Guides, checklists, and research for shipping AI-built apps to production.

Everything we publish on fixing, auditing, migrating, or deciding whether to rescue an app built with Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, Replit, Claude Code, or Base44.

The Afterbuild Labs /resources cluster collects 22 written pieces organised into four categories: 6 research meta-analyses, 7 how-to guides, 5 pre-launch checklists, and 4 failure-mode deep-dives. The cornerstone is State of Vibe-Coded Apps 2026, our meta-analysis of Veracode’s State of Software Security, The Register’s February 2026 coverage of the Lovable / Supabase RLS incident, Stripe’s AI-agent integration benchmark, and Afterbuild Labs’s own rescue engagement patterns. Every other resource sits on the same evidence base. Pieces are categorised by what the reader needs at a given moment — evidence to decide, steps to migrate, a checklist to verify, or a post-mortem to understand a failure mode — rather than by the source AI tool.

By Hyder ShahFounder · Afterbuild LabsLast updated 2026-04-18

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written resources
updated 2026-04-18
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categories · research, guides, checklists, deep-dives
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AI builders covered across the cluster
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AI code ships with OWASP Top 10 vulns (industry benchmark)
§ RS-01/research · meta-analyses and cost studies

Research — third-party meta-analyses and production-readiness studies.

Cornerstone research pieces that synthesise published third-party data (Veracode, Stripe, The Register, Trustpilot) with Afterbuild Labs rescue patterns. Start here when you want the evidence base.

§ RS-01-01/state-of-vibe-coding-2026
State of Vibe-Coded Apps 2026
Cornerstone meta-analysis of published third-party research (Veracode, Stripe, The Register, Trustpilot) plus engagement patterns — what breaks first when founders ship AI-built code.
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§ RS-01-02/cost-to-fix-broken-lovable-app-2026
Cost to Fix a Broken Lovable App
Realistic repair ranges for broken Lovable apps before you burn another thousand credits prompting the same loop.
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§ RS-01-03/cost-to-fix-broken-bolt-app-2026
Cost to Fix a Broken Bolt App
Repair ranges for Bolt.new apps — WebContainer drift, Netlify config, persistent database, Stripe webhooks.
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§ RS-01-04/can-you-ship-lovable-to-production-2026
Can Lovable Ship to Production?
The honest 2026 reality check on Lovable's production-readiness — what survives, what doesn't, and when to migrate.
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§ RS-01-05/can-lovable-build-production-apps
Can Lovable Build Production Apps?
Older but still-cited production-readiness assessment for Lovable — auth, RLS, Stripe, deploy.
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§ RS-01-06/can-bolt-build-production-apps
Can Bolt Build Production Apps?
What Bolt ships cleanly, what it hands off to you, and where the WebContainer runtime boundary bites at launch.
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§ RS-02/guides · how to migrate, harden, or decide

Guides — migration paths, hardening walkthroughs, and rescue-vs-rewrite decisions.

Step-by-step guides written for the migration moment — off Lovable, off Bolt, off v0 — plus the diagnostic questions that decide whether to rescue or rewrite.

§ RS-02-01/migrate-from-lovable-to-nextjs
Migrate from Lovable to Next.js
The escape plan — move off Lovable to Next.js + Supabase + Vercel without losing auth, URLs, or user data.
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§ RS-02-02/bolt-to-nextjs-migration-guide
Migrate from Bolt to Next.js
Step-by-step migration off Bolt.new to a Next.js production stack — extract from WebContainer, wire real infra.
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§ RS-02-03/v0-to-production-guide
Take v0 Output to Production
v0 shipped the UI. This is the backend, auth, database, payments, and deployment work that turns it into an app.
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§ RS-02-04/how-to-migrate-off-ai-app-builders
Migrate Off AI Builders
General migration planning for AI-built apps regardless of source tool — sequence, risks, hard handoffs.
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§ RS-02-05/supabase-rls-for-non-technical-founders
Supabase RLS for Founders
Plain-English Row-Level Security guide before your app exposes user data. The single most common AI-build failure.
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§ RS-02-06/rewrite-or-rescue-vibe-coded-app
Rewrite or Rescue?
How to decide whether your AI-built app is salvageable — the triage questions and the break-even math.
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§ RS-02-07/when-to-hire-a-developer-after-ai-builders
When to Hire a Developer
The point at which prompting costs more than engineering — budgets, scope, and warning signs.
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§ RS-03/checklists · pre-launch verification

Checklists — run these before you invite real users.

Line-by-line verification checklists for launch, security, payments, and auth. Print, tick, ship.

§ RS-03-01/ai-builder-launch-checklist
AI Builder Launch Checklist
What to check before you invite real users — auth, RLS, payments, email, monitoring, domains, secrets.
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§ RS-03-02/audit-ai-built-app-before-launch
Audit Before Launch
Line-by-line checklist for security, auth, data, payments, and deployment on any AI-built codebase.
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§ RS-03-03/ai-app-security-checklist-2026
AI App Security Checklist 2026
Current-year security checklist covering OWASP Top 10 exposure patterns common to AI-generated code.
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§ RS-03-04/stripe-integration-lovable-checklist
Lovable Stripe Checklist
Checkout, webhooks, subscriptions, test-mode drift, and production keys — the Stripe wires Lovable leaves loose.
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§ RS-03-05/stripe-integration-bolt-checklist
Bolt Stripe Checklist
The Stripe integration work Bolt hands to you — webhook idempotency, signing secrets, subscription state sync.
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§ RS-04/deep-dives · failure-mode post-mortems

Deep-dives — why AI-built apps break, in detail.

Failure-mode post-mortems and pattern analyses from rescue engagements. The stuff you only learn by fixing a hundred of these.

§ RS-04-01/what-breaks-first-when-you-deploy-lovable
7 Things That Break First in Lovable
Deployment, auth, RLS, Stripe, domains, email, and monitoring — the failure order we see on rescue engagements.
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§ RS-04-02/why-ai-app-burning-credits
Why AI Apps Burn Credits
The credit spiral explained — why prompts compound, why the fix-loop recurses, and when to stop prompting.
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§ RS-04-03/why-ai-built-apps-break
Why AI-Built Apps Break
The recurring architectural patterns behind broken generated apps — prompt-to-code gap, context loss, RLS drift.
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§ RS-04-04/vibe-coding-vs-professional-development
Vibe Coding vs Professional Development
Where the prototype stops and engineering starts — scope, testability, ownership, and production risk.
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§ RS-REL/related hubs

Related Afterbuild Labs hubs

Resources pair with three other clusters: exact-error fixes, outcome-based solutions, and head-to-head tool comparisons.

/fix
Error fix index
Forty exact-match errors diagnosed and fixed — Stripe webhooks, OAuth, RLS, Vercel env vars, hydration, CORS.
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/solutions
Outcome-based solutions
Fixed-fee engagements scoped for specific post-AI-build scenarios — fix, audit, migrate, or hire a developer.
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/compare
AI builder comparisons
Fifteen head-to-head matchups — Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, v0, Replit, Windsurf, Claude Code, Base44.
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