Your vibe got you 80% of the way.
I handle the 20% AI can't. Auth that doesn't leak. Payments that settle. Databases that don't melt. App Store submissions that actually get approved.
14 founders unstuck · 100% App Store approval rate
This is where AI abandons you
You shipped a prototype in a weekend with AI. That work is real. But then you hit the gap between "looks great in a demo" and "actually works for real users."
It worked in the preview
Your AI-built auth works locally but breaks in production. Refresh tokens, session management, social login redirects. The edge cases are endless.
You shipped and it fell over
Five users hit your app and the database melted. AI doesn't teach indexing strategies, connection pooling, or cold start mitigation.
Feature creep, scope rot
You've been "two weeks from launch" for three months. Every AI session adds a new feature instead of shipping what's already built.
Nobody reviewed your architecture
Your AI-generated code has no second pair of eyes. No one challenged the data model, the security decisions, or the state management approach.
From stuck to shipped
Three steps. No retainers. No long-term lock-in.
30-min deep dive
We figure out what's actually broken: architecture, state, deployment, or just prioritization chaos. No BS.
I ship, you review
I build the hard parts: auth flows, database schema, payment integration, CI/CD. You review PRs. Not a black box.
Hit production, together
App Store submission, launch checklist, monitoring, post-launch triage. I stay until it's live and stable.
What I actually do
The specific things that turn a prototype into a product.
Auth that doesn't leak
OAuth, magic links, MFA, session management. I wire up Clerk or build a custom Firebase Auth flow that handles edge cases.
Payments that settle
Stripe integration, subscriptions, IAP, revenue reporting. Webhooks, invoice management, and the refund path.
Data models that scale
Schema design, migrations, indexing, caching. I untangle your Firestore or Supabase setup before it becomes technical debt.
Infrastructure that stays up
CI/CD pipelines, staging environments, monitoring, error tracking. Sentry setup, deploy to Vercel or Fly.io, pager alerts.
Mobile that gets through review
App Store compliance, provisioning profiles, push notifications, TestFlight distribution. I get your app past Apple's gatekeepers.
Architecture review & refactor
I audit your codebase for anti-patterns, fix the state management spaghetti, and leave you with a maintainable foundation.
What unstuck looks like
Three founders. Three walls. Three shipments.
Stripe webhooks failing silently. Subscriptions weren't provisioning and the founder didn't know until a customer emailed.
Rewrote the webhook handler with proper idempotency, retry logic, and a dead-letter queue for unprocessable events.
Zero missed webhooks since. Subscription revenue flows without manual intervention.
AI-built iOS app rejected from App Store review 3 times. Guideline 4.0, provisioning issues, and a crash-on-launch that didn't show locally.
Restructured the app target, regenerated provisioning profiles, fixed the main-thread blocker, and walked through Apple's appeal process.
Approved in 48 hours. Currently live on the App Store.
Solo founder, 3 months in 'one more feature' mode. A working prototype with no path to launch, no staging environment, no monitoring.
Cut scope to launch-critical features, set up CI/CD with preview deployments, wired in Sentry for error tracking, and shipped the MVP.
Launched in 2 weeks. Real users. Real feedback. No more feature creep.
Questions you're probably asking
The stuff every founder wonders before reaching out.
If that was working, you wouldn't be reading this. AI is incredible at known patterns and helpless against your specific edge cases. The webhook that fails silently. The provisioning profile that won't validate. The race condition that only triggers with 12 concurrent users. You've already burned weekends prompting. It's not going to ship your product.
What's costing more: a scoped engagement that gets you to launch, or three more months of "almost done" with no users, no revenue, no feedback? Agencies start at $50k and take 6 months. A full-time engineer is $150k+/year plus equity. Most of my engagements cost less than a single month of that, because I only work on the 20% you actually need.
You review every PR. You stay in the loop. I'm here to unblock you, not take over. When we're done, you have a codebase you understand and can change yourself.
Everything starts with a free 1-hour call. We figure out what's actually broken and what it'll take to fix it. Then I give you a fixed scope and price. No retainers, no surprise invoices. You know exactly what you're getting before you pay anything.
If you want someone to build the entire product from scratch while you wait, I'm not the right person. If you already have a senior engineering team, you don't need me. If you're an enterprise looking for staff augmentation, wrong fit. I work best with solo founders and small teams who already have momentum and just need to get past the wall.
Still reading?
Stop vibing. Start shipping.
Book a 1-hour call. We look at your stack, figure out what's blocking you, and decide if it makes sense to work together. No pitch. Just problem-solving.
Taking on 2-3 engagements this quarter. After that, waitlist.
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