The honest assessment most vibe-coded apps need is not more features. It is whether one critical path can survive real users: auth that cannot be skipped, migrations that can roll back, secrets that are not in the repo, and a deploy you can reverse at 2am.

A practical next step is to freeze the scope to a single production slice. Pick the workflow that already has users, write acceptance criteria for security and uptime, then harden only that path. Keep the rest of the prototype as a backlog, not as a rewrite fantasy.

Ascendra Ventures often takes that slice as a fixed-price atomic problem: CI/CD, containerization, and the boring reliability work that turns a demo into something you can put in front of paying customers. If the article's checklist matches where you are stuck, that pattern is usually faster than another month of AI-generated screens.