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Is your app ready for real users?

Fifteen checks we run before a product takes paying customers. Written from the audits, not from a blog post. Free, as a one-page PDF, in exchange for your email.

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A few of the fifteen.

  1. Is any API key, token or password committed in the repository?
  2. Can an unauthenticated request read or write your database directly?
  3. Do admin routes check that the user is actually an admin?
  4. Is there a backup, and has anyone ever restored from it?
  5. What happens to a customer's session when they change their password?
  6. Are error messages leaking stack traces or internal paths to users?
  7. Can one user reach another user's records by changing an ID in the URL?
  8. Is the deploy repeatable, or does it live on one person's laptop?
  9. Are file uploads checked for type and size before they're stored?
  10. Is there rate limiting on login, signup and password reset?

The full fifteen, with what "good" looks like for each, are in the PDF.

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