Real Rescues, Real Results

What Happens When Senior Engineers Clean Up Vibe Code

Every project starts as a mess. These founders trusted us to fix it. Here's what changed after we stepped in.

The $5K Replit Disaster

Replit

Founder spent $5k in AI credits. Demo worked, production crashed instantly under load and leaked secrets everywhere.

Refactored database layer and added connection pooling
Moved hard-coded credentials into environment variables
Introduced request validation and rate limiting
Now handles 1,000+ concurrent users while cutting hosting costs by 60%.
Time: 18 hoursCost: $3,600

The Lovable Payment Sieve

Lovable

Launch-day customers discovered they could bypass the Stripe checkout by refreshing on the confirmation step.

Rebuilt checkout flow with idempotent Stripe sessions
Added server-side guard rails plus audit logging
Implemented automated tests around purchase completion
Recovered $12k in lost revenue within two weeks and restored investor confidence.
Time: 22 hoursCost: $4,400

The Bolt Feature Graveyard

Bolt

Every new feature deployment broke three old ones. The AI-generated monolith had zero tests and copy-pasted logic.

Modularized the codebase into feature slices with shared primitives
Introduced CI with linting, type checks, and smoke tests
Set up alerting and logging to catch regressions before users do
Velocity doubled while customer churn dropped 35% thanks to fewer outages.
Time: 36 hoursCost: $7,200