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Launch Guides

Launch readiness is checking an app before inviting users. Review access, payment handling, recovery, errors and deployment without inventing results.

Where should I start with launch guides?

Start with the guide that matches your question or the error you can see. Each guide below names the problem, gives checks you can run, and links to related reading.

What evidence should you collect before inviting users?

A launch checklist is a set of verified outcomes, not completed-looking boxes. In an illustrative subscription app, checkout opens successfully but a failed payment notification leaves the account free. The launch check must include payment-to-access and restore or recovery where applicable, not only opening the purchase screen.

  1. 1Run registration, sign-in and recovery using isolated accounts and safe email delivery.
  2. 2Verify paid access is granted through a trusted payment result and rejected without entitlement.
  3. 3Refresh saved work and test ownership with a second isolated account.
  4. 4Trigger a harmless test error and confirm monitoring reaches the intended recipient.

What should stay on hold when a check is unverified?

Mark a missing result as unverified, with the exact flow and required evidence. Do not turn a successful screen into a claim that purchases, recovery or capacity are tested. Keep a rollback and service-pause plan ready. This guide is preparation only: it does not publish, email users or announce a release on your behalf.

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9 min readUpdated September 22, 2026

AI app launch checklist

What to verify before real people use an AI-built app: access rules, secrets, signed-out behaviour, payments, email, errors and the boring things that decide whether a launch is quiet or embarrassing.

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