Vibe Coding Cleanup & AI App Rescue

Who this is for

You described an app to Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, or v0, and something real came out of it. Screens, a login, maybe a database and a Stripe button. Then it stalled. A feature the AI “finished” does not actually work. The preview runs but the deployed version throws errors. You are not sure whether strangers can read your database, because you are not sure what a database rule is. You are spending more time re-prompting the AI to fix its own regressions than building anything new.

That is the point where most people search for someone to finish their app, and it is exactly the work we do.

What usually goes wrong with vibe-coded apps

The tools are genuinely good at the first eighty percent. The last twenty is where the risk lives, and it looks the same across almost every rescue we see:

• Open databases. Supabase row-level security is off or wrong, so any visitor holding the public key — which is visible in the page’s JavaScript — can read every table. A 2026 scan of nearly 31,000 AI-built apps found this in 57 percent of the Supabase-backed ones.
• Secrets in the browser. A service-role key or an API secret shipped to the client, where it bypasses every rule you thought you had.
• Auth that is theater. A login screen with routes behind it that never check who is asking.
• Works in preview, breaks in production. CORS errors, missing environment variables, and payments that only ever ran in test mode.
• No tests, no error handling. Every new prompt risks quietly breaking something that used to work.
• Database performance. Queries that were fine with ten rows of seed data and fall over with a thousand real users.

None of this means the app is worthless. It means it was built by something that does not know what it does not know.

How a rescue works

1. Audit first. A short, paid review of the code, the database, the auth, and the deployed app. You get a written list of findings — security, correctness, and what is unfinished — ranked by risk. You keep it even if you hire someone else.

2. Fix or rebuild, decided openly. We tell you which parts are sound, which need fixing, and which cannot safely carry real users. Then you get a fixed price for the plan, not an hourly meter.

3. Finish and harden. Database rules, authentication, secrets, payments, email, integrations, tests, error handling, and a real deployment with monitoring.

4. Launch, and hand it back. Everything lives in a Git repository and hosting accounts in your name. You get a short guide on what you can keep changing yourself with prompts and what to send to a developer.

What you own at the end

The code, the repository, the database, and every account. We ask to be invited to your accounts rather than given your passwords, and we put code ownership in writing. If you want to keep vibe coding on top of what we built, you can — we set it up so that is safe to do.

Why a local studio, not a marketplace gig

Marketplace listings for “fix my Lovable app” start at fifteen dollars, and some of them are fine. The problem is that you cannot tell which from the listing, and the failure mode is not a bad feature — it is a database full of your users’ data that anyone can read. We have been building and running production web applications for fourteen years, we are a real office in Edina you can call, and the same people who audit your app are the ones who fix it.