What makes an app production-ready

The one idea

A demo that works on your laptop is not production. Production-ready means:

• Real users can sign in and only see their data
• Data is stored safely with backups you understand
• Auth uses a trusted provider — not homemade passwords in a spreadsheet
• Testing covers happy path and obvious failure (empty, error, wrong input)
• Hosting is repeatable — not "works on my machine"
• Ops — you know who to contact if it breaks and how to turn it off

The Builder track teaches each layer. This lesson sets the bar: do not invite strangers to a app that fails this list.

Your win today

Score your current app idea against the production checklist — honestly mark what is not ready yet.