The Vibe Coder's Launch Checklist: 9 Things To Do After You Ship
You shipped it. Congrats. Now make sure you don't get fined, hacked, or invisible to Google.
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Add a Privacy Policy
If your site collects any personal data — emails, analytics, payments — you are legally required to have a privacy policy under GDPR and CCPA. This is not optional, and fines start at $7,500 per violation. Scan your site with PageGuard to detect what data you collect and generate a compliant policy in under 60 seconds.
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Add Terms of Service
Terms of service define the rules for using your website or app. They protect you from liability, set expectations around acceptable use, and give you the legal standing to terminate abusive accounts. Without them, you have no enforceable agreement with your users.
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Add a Cookie Consent Banner
If your site sets any non-essential cookies — analytics, advertising, social widgets — EU law requires you to get explicit consent before loading them. A cookie consent banner is not just a best practice; it is a legal requirement under the ePrivacy Directive. Most vibe-coded apps include analytics SDKs that set cookies on the first page load.
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Set Up Error Monitoring
Your users will find bugs you never imagined. Tools like Sentry, LogRocket, or Bugsnag capture crashes, stack traces, and user context so you can fix issues before they become support tickets. Ship without error monitoring and you are flying blind.
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Add Analytics
You cannot improve what you do not measure. Set up Google Analytics 4, PostHog, Plausible, or a similar tool to understand how people use your app. Track key flows — signups, conversions, retention — so you make data-driven decisions instead of guessing.
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Set Up Uptime Monitoring
Your site will go down. The question is whether you find out from a monitoring alert or from an angry tweet. Services like UptimeRobot, Better Stack, or Pingdom check your site every few minutes and notify you the moment something breaks.
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Submit to Google Search Console
Google Search Console lets you see how Google indexes your site, which queries bring traffic, and whether there are crawl errors hurting your SEO. Submitting your sitemap tells Google your site exists and accelerates indexing of your pages.
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Create a Sitemap
A sitemap is an XML file that tells search engines about every page on your site. Without one, crawlers may miss important pages. Most frameworks can generate sitemaps automatically — Next.js, for example, supports a sitemap.ts file out of the box.
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Set Up Social Preview Cards (OG Images)
When someone shares your link on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Slack, the preview card is your first impression. Open Graph meta tags control the title, description, and image that appear. A missing or broken preview card makes your site look unfinished.
Start with step one
Scan your deployed site to see exactly what data you collect, then generate a privacy policy that covers every technology found.
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