_Vibe Code Cleanup
Your vibe code. _Production-ready.
Cursor, Bolt, or Claude got you to a working prototype. But it has no tests, no auth, hardcoded secrets, and zero deployment story. We clean it up, harden it, and ship it. Typically 2 weeks from your repo to paying customers.
What is Vibe Code _Cleanup?
Vibe Code Cleanup is the practice of taking AI-generated prototypes from Cursor, Bolt, Claude, Lovable, v0, or similar tools and turning them into production-ready software. The term vibe coding was popularized by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025 to describe the new way founders build: describe what you want in English, let the AI write the code.
The gap: vibe-coded apps work on localhost but ship with predictable production failures. Secrets hardcoded in the frontend. No real auth. Payments stuck in test mode. No database backups. No error tracking. No CI/CD. Broken caching. Security holes around CORS and SQL injection. Architectural choices that work for 10 users and break at 1,000.
None of that matters on localhost. All of it matters the moment a real customer pays. Vibe Code Cleanup closes that gap. We coined the term and we run the discipline.
What we do in a _cleanup
Codebase audit and security review
Where are the secrets, where are the holes, where is the architecture going to break.
Real authentication
Clerk, Supabase Auth, or NextAuth. Not localStorage.setItem('isLoggedIn', true).
Payments wired correctly
Stripe or Razorpay, in live mode, with webhooks, idempotency, and proper subscription handling.
Database and backups
Postgres via Supabase or managed, with backups, migrations, and a sensible schema.
CI/CD and deployment
Automated pipelines to AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare. Push to main and it ships.
Monitoring and error tracking
Sentry, Logtail, or similar. You find out about errors before customers do.
_Pricing
Project-based fixed price. Typical cleanup is 2 weeks. Ongoing technical ops available after.
_Project
From $1.5K
Fixed scope, fixed price. Typically 2 weeks. Quote in 48 hours after we see the repo.
_Ongoing ops
$5-8K/mo
Technical Partner. Continued engineering, monitoring, and feature work.
Send us the _repo
Drop a GitHub link or describe the stack. We come back with a fixed-scope plan in 48 hours.
_Common questions
What is Vibe Code Cleanup?
Vibe Code Cleanup is the practice of taking AI-generated prototypes from Cursor, Bolt, Claude, Lovable, v0, or similar tools and turning them into production-ready software. It includes adding auth, payments, security hardening, CI/CD, monitoring, error handling, and fixing the architectural mistakes that AI-generated code typically ships with. Coined and operationalized by zer0xception.
What is vibe coding?
Vibe coding is the practice of building software by describing what you want in natural language and letting an AI write the code. The term was popularized by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025. Tools like Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code, v0, and Lovable enable founders without deep engineering backgrounds to ship working prototypes in hours instead of weeks.
Why does vibe code need cleanup?
AI-generated prototypes ship with predictable gaps: secrets hardcoded in the frontend, no real authentication, payments in test mode, no database backups, no error tracking, no CI/CD, broken caching, security holes around CORS and SQL injection, no rate limiting, and architectural choices that work for 10 users but break at 1,000. These do not matter on localhost. They matter the moment a real customer pays.
How long does Vibe Code Cleanup take?
Typically 2 weeks for a working prototype to reach production with auth, payments, database, deployment, and monitoring in place. Longer if the codebase has serious architectural issues or if you want substantial new features built alongside the cleanup.
What do I get at the end?
Production-ready software with proper auth (Clerk, Supabase Auth, or NextAuth), real payment processing (Stripe, Razorpay), a managed database, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and error tracking, security review complete, deployment automated to AWS, Vercel, or wherever fits, full documentation. Plus you own every line of code and every account.
What tools and stacks do you work with?
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js for the application layer. Supabase, PostgreSQL, Prisma for data. AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare for infrastructure. Stripe, Razorpay for payments. Auth via Clerk, Supabase Auth, or NextAuth. OpenAI, Claude, Gemini for AI features. If your prototype is in a different stack we evaluate case-by-case.