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7 Things to Check Before Shipping an AI-Built Web App

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9 min read10 hours ago

Your app works. The interface looks good. Even the database is connected. But there’s a difference between a working demo and something you should put in front of real users.

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Building a web app has become surprisingly fast.

You can describe what you want, let an AI tool generate the components, connect a database, and have something running before you’ve even figured out what to name the project.

And sometimes, the result is genuinely impressive.

The pages look polished. Authentication works. Forms save data. The dashboard updates exactly as expected. You click around for a while, fix a few styling issues, and start thinking about deployment.

It’s tempting to call that finished.

But there’s a part of software development that doesn’t look particularly interesting in a demo.…