Shimira ITVibe-coded app rescue
Your AI-built app works in the demo. We make it work for customers.
Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, and Cursor can take a founder from idea to clickable product in a weekend. Then the last 20% arrives: logins that fail on mobile, a Stripe integration that charges twice, a database anyone can read, and a codebase where every prompt that fixes one bug creates two more.
That last 20% is ordinary software engineering, and it's what we do. We don't throw your prototype away; it's the most precise spec you'll ever write. We audit what the AI built, keep what works, fix what doesn't, and hand back a production app in your own repo and accounts.
What you get
What we fix
Security & data exposure
Missing row-level security, API keys shipped to the browser, unauthenticated endpoints, and admin pages anyone can reach. It's the most common gap in AI-generated apps and the most expensive one to discover late.
Auth & payments
Sign-up, password reset, sessions, and Stripe made dependable: webhooks verified, retries handled, and customers charged exactly once and given access every time.
Data model & performance
Schemas that buckle past a few hundred users, duplicate-write bugs, missing indexes, and queries that crawl once real data arrives.
Deployment & ownership
The app moved out of the builder's sandbox onto your own GitHub, hosting, domain, and database, with separate environments, backups, and monitoring.
Finishing the product
The admin panel, roles, emails, and edge cases the demo skipped, built on a codebase that won't collapse under the next change, whether that change comes from us or from your AI tool.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe
- Vercel
The AI builders we take over
Each tool leaves a recognizable fingerprint in the code. Knowing it is half the audit.
- Lovable. React, Vite, and TypeScript on a Supabase backend, synced to GitHub. Usual gaps: row-level security policies, error handling in edge functions, and flows that only work on the happy path. Lovable app rescue →
- Bolt.new. Built in the browser and hosted on Bolt Cloud or Netlify, often with Supabase. Usual gaps: projects that outgrew the AI's context window, leaving different patterns in different files. Bolt app rescue →
- Replit Agent. Node.js or Python apps on Replit's hosting. Usual gaps: secrets, databases, and file storage tied to the Replit workspace, with no clean path to a standard deployment. Replit app rescue →
- v0, Cursor, and Claude Code. Next.js and React code in your own repo. Usual gaps: architecture drift across hundreds of AI edits, and no tests guarding the flows that make you money.
Built with something else? Send us the link. We'll tell you in one reply whether we're the right team, and if we're not, we'll say so.
Proof
We've shipped this.
An AI product running in production: generation inside strict guardrails, live order tracking, and a fully automated print pipeline. That reliability layer is what AI prototypes are missing.
Worth knowing
Signs your AI-built app isn't ready for real users
- It works when you test it and breaks when other people use it.
- You're not sure who can read or change the data in your database.
- API keys are visible in your browser's developer tools.
- Stripe is connected, but you're nervous about charging real cards.
- Each prompt that fixes one bug breaks something else.
- The app only runs inside the builder, not on your own domain and hosting.
- You've spent days of credits going in circles on the same problem.
If two or more sound familiar, an audit will save you more than it costs.
How it runs
From prototype to production
We keep your screens, flows, and working logic. The prototype is the spec; our job is to make it hold up.
- 01
Code & security audit
3–5 working daysWe read what the AI built, check for exposed keys and open data, test sign-up, login, and payments end to end, and send a written fix list with one fixed price for the whole job.
- 02
Secure & move
1–2 weeksData locked down, secrets out of the front end, and the app moved to your own GitHub, hosting, and database, with staging and production kept separate.
- 03
Fix & finish
2–6 weeksBugs fixed and missing features built in weekly demos, with tests added on the flows that make you money.
- 04
Launch & hand back
launch + 30 daysMonitoring and backups in place, 30 days of post-launch bug fixes, and documentation your next developer, or your AI tool, can work from.
A low-risk start
Send us the link. Get an honest read.
Everything stays in your accounts from day one: your repo, your database, your keys, your customers.
How you work with us
Three ways to engage.
Fixed price
MVPs from $7,500
Full products $18,000–$55,000+
You know what you need built. We scope it, quote one price, and deliver against it, no meter running.
- One agreed price, agreed before we start
- Milestone-based payments tied to what you can see
- Change requests priced openly, never assumed
Time & materials
from $28 / hour
Blended ~$32; senior specialists to ~$45
For work that changes as you learn. You pay for the hours spent, see exactly where they go, and can steer week to week.
- Billed on real, logged hours, reviewed with you
- Reprioritise or change direction any sprint
- Start small, scale the team as it proves out
Dedicated team
from $2,800 / month
Per developer, full-time, see the rate card
Developers who work only on your product, full-time, as an extension of your team, the offshore model most of our long-term clients settle into.
- The same people, month after month
- Your tools, your standups, your roadmap
- Roughly half the loaded cost of a local hire
Full rate card and what's included on the pricing page.
Why Shimira IT
Why founders bring their prototypes to us.
Your prototype is the spec
We build on what you validated instead of charging you to rebuild it from a blank page.
Security first
Data access, secrets, and payments are checked before anything else, because those are the failures that end companies.
Production engineers
Our core discipline is TypeScript backends and PostgreSQL, which is exactly where AI-generated apps break under real users.
Fixed price, your accounts
One price agreed after the audit, milestone payments, and everything in your name from day one.
Questions
Before you get in touch.
Almost never. Your prototype already encodes your screens, flows, and business rules, which is the hardest part to specify. We keep what works and rebuild only the parts that can't be made safe or reliable, and the audit tells you which parts those are before you pay for anything else.
It depends on how far the app got, which is exactly what the audit answers. You get one fixed price for the whole job before you commit, paid in milestones rather than upfront. Most rescues are a few weeks of work, not months.
If your app runs on Supabase or Firebase and nobody has reviewed the access rules, it's possible. Missing row-level security is one of the most common issues in AI-generated apps, and it's the first thing the audit checks.
Yes. We leave the code in a state your AI tool can keep working with, plus documentation and tests on the critical paths, so a future prompt can't quietly break payments or logins.
Completely. The code lives in your GitHub, the app runs on your hosting and database, and every key and account is in your name. We work inside your accounts rather than ours.
The same approach applies to any stalled or abandoned codebase. See our software project rescue service.
Not sure what you need yet? That's the usual starting point.
Tell us the problem in your own words. We'll scope it with you and put the plan in writing, free, and yours to keep either way.