Build, Ship & Host Your Own Product

You can get an AI tool to build *something*, but turning that into a real product — live on the internet, with sign-in, payments, and a host you won't have to flee in six months — is where most people stall. This is the spine: the order to do things in, the decision at each step, and the exact deep workflow, skill, or guide that does the heavy lifting for that step.

You have a working web app and now you need two hard things at once: people sign in, and some of them pay. Done wrong, this leaks other users' data or grants paid access to people who never paid. This is the ordered path that gets sign-in, protected routes, and paid checkout wired correctly the first time.

Your host already redeploys when you push to `main` — which means a typo, a failing test, or a broken type can sail straight to production. This wires a gate in front of that: every push runs lint, typecheck, and tests first, every PR gets its own preview URL, and only a green build is allowed to deploy. Push-to-ship, without shipping a red build.

Your app is live and you have no idea when it breaks. Right now the first sign of an outage is an email from a user — or silence while signups quietly fail. This wires the four things a small live app actually needs: error tracking, an external uptime check on the real critical path, log access you've already tested, and exactly one alert that reaches you.

Your app is live on a `*.vercel.app` (or `*.railway.app`) URL, and any email it sends — signup confirmations, password resets, receipts — either doesn't go out or lands in spam. This wires the real domain, the DNS behind it, and a transactional email setup that actually reaches the inbox.

Your app is live and it works — and then the host invoice and the LLM-API invoice both start creeping, and one bad week of traffic (or one runaway loop) turns into a number you didn't budget for. This sets a hard floor under the damage, shows you which knobs actually move the bill, and gives you a check short enough that you'll actually run it.