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A founder's honest look at why a pre-launch audit matters: security holes, broken pages, privacy gaps and the bugs you never see until a real customer does.
By Lamar BrownLast reviewed October 25, 20266 min read
Tracking pixels firing before consent, inaccessible checkouts and kids' data rules drive thousands of lawsuits. Here's how a pre-launch audit lowers your risk.
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Built your app with AI tools like Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Replit? Run these 12 security, privacy and reliability checks before real customers sign up.
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Trackers that fire before consent have cost companies millions in California and France. What regulators found, what SB 690 changed, and how to test.
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Tracking pixels firing before consent, inaccessible checkouts and kids' data rules drive thousands of lawsuits. Here's how a pre-launch audit lowers your risk.
High risk
Built your app with AI tools like Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Replit? Run these 12 security, privacy and reliability checks before real customers sign up.
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Trackers that fire before consent have cost companies millions in California and France. What regulators found, what SB 690 changed, and how to test.
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Tracking pixels firing before consent, inaccessible checkouts and kids' data rules drive thousands of lawsuits. Here's how a pre-launch audit lowers your risk.
High risk
Built your app with AI tools like Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Replit? Run these 12 security, privacy and reliability checks before real customers sign up.
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Trackers that fire before consent have cost companies millions in California and France. What regulators found, what SB 690 changed, and how to test.
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Server-side prices, verified Stripe webhooks, no double charges, no raw card data: a plain-English payment logic checklist for founders building fast.
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Prompt injection, over-permissioned AI agents, leaky logs and runaway bills: six checks to run on your app's AI features before launch.
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A founder's honest look at why a pre-launch audit matters: security holes, broken pages, privacy gaps and the bugs you never see until a real customer does.
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Social login is quick to add and easy to get subtly wrong. Here's how redirect URIs, next= links and email linking can hand an account to someone else.
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A practical accessibility test for founders: keyboard walkthrough, focus, modals, forms, contrast, zoom, alt text and the new WCAG 2.2 AA rules.
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Five Supabase Row Level Security mistakes that slip into apps built fast: RLS left off, open writes, trusted user IDs, leaked secret keys and side doors.
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