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Practical writing about keeping AI-built software alive: operations, reliability, security, support, and the boring machinery behind quiet months. No hot takes, no hype — things you can act on this week.
You built an app with AI. Now what?
The honest owner's manual for the day after: ownership, backups, monitoring, support, legal basics, and knowing when to get help.
Read the article- How to do support for your AI-built app without drowning One inbox, honest response times, reusable answers, and a triage rule that fits on a sticky note — solo support that actually scales.
- The first 90 days after launch: what actually breaks, and when A timeline of the failures that find every AI-built app — launch-week spikes, week-three webhooks, month-two dependency rot — and what to do before each one.
- Monitoring for non-engineers: what to watch, what to ignore Four numbers that matter, a pile of dashboards that don't, and the one principle that makes monitoring real: someone has to read it.
- Fix it yourself or pay someone? An honest decision framework Two questions — blast radius and reversibility — sort almost every problem in an AI-built app into 'safe to try' or 'get help'. Plus the cost math nobody does.
- What running an AI-built app actually costs From the $0 illusion through the first real invoices to the hidden line item — your evenings. Realistic monthly numbers for a small production app.
- Updating code you didn't write: dependencies without fear Your AI-built app is aging in place. A monthly 45-minute routine — staging, money-path test, written rollback — keeps it patched without the terror.
- Your Lovable app is live. Here's the 10-minute safety check. Five questions that separate an app that survives from an app that just works today — each checkable in about two minutes.
- A backup that was never restored is a rumor. Why "we have backups" is the most dangerous sentence in software, and how to turn it into something you can prove.
- The most common finding in AI-built apps: exposed secrets. Why AI generators leak API keys, where to look in your own app, and why rotating beats deleting every time.
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