Your Vibe-Coded Prototype Passed the Demo. Now What?
The prototype worked. You showed it to your co-founder first, then to an investor, then to the first handful of people on your waitlist. No one flinched. The screens load, the flow makes sense, and most of it came out of an AI tool in a weekend.
Somebody in the room asked the question you've been asking yourself since: "This is basically done, right?"
That question is the whole problem. A demo answers "does this look right." A product answers "does this hold up when a stranger uses it with real money and real data on a bad Tuesday." Those are different questions, and a vibe-coded prototype was only ever built to answer the first one.
TL;DR:A working demo proves the concept, not the system. Instead of running a generic hardening checklist on a vibe-coded prototype, audit it module by module and give each one a verdict: keep, fix...
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