AI App Launch Checklist

1. Make one real purchase on the live site. Pay with a real card on production, then refund yourself. Test mode passing proves nothing about live keys, webhooks, or receipts.
2. Click every pricing and CTA button while logged out. Placeholder hrefs and buttons wired to nothing are the most common defect we find in generated UIs.
3. Trigger a payment failure on purpose. Confirm a declined card shows a clear message and a retry path — not a blank screen or a silent redirect.
4. Confirm receipts and confirmation emails arrive. Check the inbox and the spam folder. If email is broken, refunds and support get ugly fast.
5. Submit every form empty, then with bad input. Each one should show a usable error state, keep what the visitor typed, and never fail silently.
6. Look at the app as a brand-new user. Fresh account, no data: every screen needs a real empty state instead of a blank panel or a crash.
7. Visit a URL that does not exist. A branded 404 with a way back beats a stack trace or a white page.
8. Break a third-party dependency and watch. What does the visitor see when the AI API, payment call, or email service fails? An infinite spinner is a lost customer.
9. Test at 375px wide. Real phone or devtools: no horizontal scroll, readable text, tap targets big enough for thumbs.
10. Check viewport meta, page titles, and meta descriptions. Every public page needs the responsive viewport tag and its own title and description — generated pages often share one.
11. Paste your URL into a chat and check the preview. og:title, og:description, and og:image are your first impression on social — set them deliberately.
12. Publish refund, contact, and privacy pages that are true. A monitored email, a refund policy you will actually honor, and a privacy page that matches what you collect.
13. Scan your copy for claims you cannot back. Guarantees, invented numbers, testimonials that do not exist — remove them before someone screenshots them.
14. Run the full auth loop. Sign up, log in, log out, reset password — on desktop and mobile, including the reset email actually arriving.
15. Search the shipped client bundle for secrets. API keys belong server-side. Check the deployed JavaScript and your git history, not just the working tree.
16. Write down your rollback plan. Know the exact command or click that restores the previous deploy, and take a database backup you have tested restoring.
17. Set up support before you need it. A monitored support address on the site and a first-response template — even if support is just you.
18. Write a one-page launch-day runbook. Who watches errors and the payment dashboard, how often, and what failure would make you pause the launch. Decide now, not mid-incident.

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