Start a Vibe-Code Cleanup and Maintenance Service

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   Productize the audit as the front door

   A fixed-price review (security basics, data handling, secrets in code, dependency risk, error handling, test coverage) delivered as a plain-language report with a severity-ranked fix list. Fixed price and fixed scope make it an easy first yes for a nervous non-technical owner.

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   Speak the owner's language, not the engineer's

   The buyer cannot evaluate your code; they evaluate whether you explain risk clearly and calmly. 'Your customer data is currently readable by anyone with this URL' lands; a lecture about architecture does not. Judgment-free tone matters, because half of them are embarrassed to show you the code.

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   Fix in order of blast radius

   Exposed credentials, authentication holes, and payment or personal-data handling first; performance and code style later. Documented before-and-after on the scary items is what earns the retainer conversation.

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   Convert to the maintenance retainer

   Monthly coverage for dependency updates, monitoring, backups, uptime response, and a small bucket of change requests, priced by app complexity in the low-to-mid hundreds. This recurring layer, distinguished from the adopt-orphaned-products model already in this bank, is for owners actively running their own product.

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   Use AI tooling with engineering discipline

   The same generation tools that created the mess accelerate the cleanup when wrapped in review, tests, and version control; your margin comes from that leverage, and your value comes from the discipline the original build lacked.

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   Fish where the builders are

   The communities around popular AI app builders are full of 'it broke and I do not know why' posts; helpful, non-salesy answers plus a public teardown or two of common failure patterns will fill an audit calendar without ads.

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