Ship My App
Prototype → Production,
without the rewrite spiral
Got an app that's almost there? I'll get it production-ready: stable, secure, and set up to stay healthy. Need something built from scratch? I do that too.
Who it's for
- Founders (solo or small team) with a fragile MVP
- Startups hardening a prototype before customers touch it
- SMBs relying on internal tools that are risky
- Agencies/studios who want a productionisation partner
Packages
Codebase Triage
48 hours
- Production Readiness Score (Security, Data, Deploy, Reliability, Maintainability)
- Prioritised fix plan (Top 10 issues + why they matter)
- Salvage vs rebuild recommendation
- Locked Ship Sprint scope + acceptance criteria + timeline
Typical: £750–£2,000 (depends on repo + infra complexity)
Ship Sprint
1-2 weeks, fixed scope
A stable production deploy plus guardrails so it stays stable.
- Auth sanity: roles/permissions, protected routes, access control checks
- Data integrity: schema cleanup, migrations, basic constraints
- Error handling: consistent API errors, boundaries, retries where appropriate
- Observability: structured logs, basic metrics, runtime checks
- Quality gates: lint/typecheck, minimal tests for critical paths, CI
- Deploy: reproducible env config, secrets hygiene, staging/prod separation
- Runbook: deploy/rollback/debug in plain English
Typical: £6,000–£18,000 (fixed after triage)
Keep-It-Alive Retainer
Monthly, capped
- Bug fixes + small enhancements
- New feature development
- Dependency/security updates
- Performance tidy-ups
- Monitoring review + incident support
- Backlog/tech debt hygiene
Typical: £750–£5,000/mo (SLA + hours cap)
How it works
Share repo + hosting context
Give me access to your codebase and current infrastructure.
Triage → report + fixed sprint quote
I audit the repo and deliver a production readiness report with a fixed quote.
Ship Sprint → PRs + staging previews + daily updates
PR-based work with staging previews and daily progress updates.
Launch → production deploy + runbook + handover
Production deploy, runbook, handover — or roll into a retainer.
Boundaries
- Not open-ended consulting: everything is triaged, scoped, and delivered as PRs.
- Fixed sprint scope: new features go into a follow-up sprint or retainer.
- If it's unsalvageable, you'll know quickly — with a minimal rebuild option.
Frequently asked questions
Who am I
I'm Luke, a full-stack software engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping and operating web apps. I'm obsessive about the boring production stuff — auth edge cases, migrations, env/secrets, observability, and making sure there's a runbook when something breaks.
Readiness Scanner
I'm building a readiness scanner CLI to make these audits faster and more standardised.