Peakstack
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Part I. Getting started

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Part IV. Shipping14 min read

The pre-launch checklist

Thirty-two checks, grouped by what happens if you skip them. Work top to bottom, because the order is deliberate: the first group is the one that ends companies.

Every item is written as something you perform, not something you agree with. If you can tick a box without opening a terminal or a browser, it was written badly. Your progress is saved on this device.

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Fatal. Do not launch without these.

0/11

Each of these lets a stranger read or change data that is not theirs. There is no partial credit here.

Expensive. These cost money or credibility.

0/10

Nobody breaches you. You just wake up to a bill, a chargeback, or a review you cannot answer.

Embarrassing. These decide whether you look real.

0/11

The first person to notice will be the one deciding whether to trust you with a credit card.

When you have ticked them all

You have done more diligence than the overwhelming majority of apps that launch this week. That is not flattery. Most of the failures in the atlas are found in products with real users and real revenue.

One honest caveat, and then you can go post the link. A manual pass has a structural weakness: you are checking your own work, using your own assumptions about how the app is meant to be used. Those are precisely the assumptions an attacker does not share. It is the reason a second pair of eyes has always been worth something in this industry, and why “I checked it myself” has never been the same claim as “it was checked.”

When you’re ready to ship

Get an invite to PeakStack.

You've done the checklist by hand, which puts you ahead of most launches. The last gap is the one no self-review closes: you checked your app the way you built it, and a stranger will not. PeakStack drives your live app in a real browser, checks what your landing page promises against what the app actually does, and runs the security pass this chapter describes: exposed keys, open database rules, client-side admin gates. You get a letter grade, ranked fixes, and an honest list of what we couldn’t check.

Request accessRun the checklist first

Private beta. Join the waitlist for an invite.