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Featured prompt: The First Production Stack — Domains, Auth, Data, Logs, and Payments
The practical baseline for turning an AI-built demo into a real software product: DNS, hosting, database, auth, observability, GitHub, durable notes, subscriptions, and security sweeps.
"I have an AI-built demo and I want to understand the path to production.
Do not write code yet.
Product context:
- what the app does: [describe it]
- who will use it first: [describe first testers]
- current stack: [list tools if known]
- business model: [free, subscription, internal, commerce-backed, not sure]
Please produce:
1. the missing production stack checklist across domain, DNS, hosting, database, auth, payments, logs, GitHub, notes, and security
2. the safest recommended vendors for each missing layer, prioritizing strong APIs and clean handoffs to agents
3. the smallest production milestone I should target before inviting more than three testers
4. the subscription or entitlement model I should use if early testers are free but need full paid access
5. the business-value hypothesis: why this could become recurring software revenue, what would prove retention, and how any existing sales channel could help validate it
Be practical and skeptical. Separate table stakes from nice-to-have features."