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Launch Day Checklist Pack
Pipelines, env config, health checks, and rollback plans. The "must haves" to go live.
Prompts In This Pack
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Deployment
Add feature flags so risky changes can ship dark
Ship code behind a switch so you can release, roll out gradually, and kill features without redeploying.
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Deployment
Add real health and readiness checks
Give your host and monitors an honest signal for 'am I actually up and able to serve traffic'.
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Database
Guard seed and fixture data out of production
Adds environment guards so test users, demo records, and seed scripts can never run or leak into production.
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Testing
Audit how my app handles and displays errors
Map every error path to what the user sees and what gets logged, then fix the ones that confuse users or hide failures.
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Deployment
Run basic load tests before launch
Find where the app breaks under load in a controlled test instead of on launch day.
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Deployment
Build a launch-day monitoring dashboard
One screen with the six or seven numbers that tell you whether the app is healthy right now.
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Database
Cap unbounded text fields
Adds length limits to user text fields and columns so no single record can bloat rows, pages, or payloads.
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Deployment
Configure SSL/TLS so the padlock doesn't expire mid-launch
Set up HTTPS with automatic renewal, redirects, HSTS, and modern TLS settings that don't rot in six months.
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Deployment
Deploy background workers without dropping jobs
Ship worker processes with graceful shutdown, retries, and monitoring so redeploys don't lose in-flight work.
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Security
Turn off debug mode and dev tools in production
Finds debug flags, verbose error pages, and development-only routes that are still on in the production build and disables them.
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Testing
End-to-end test my signup-to-paid flow
Script a browser-level test of the full path from landing on the site to a completed payment, the flow that pays for everything.
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Performance
Turn on gzip/brotli compression for my app
Verifies text responses are compressed at the server or CDN and enables brotli/gzip where they are not.
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Deployment
Make my deploys actually zero-downtime
Stop dropping in-flight requests and killing user sessions on every deploy.
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Deployment
Make my dev, staging, and production environments actually match
Kill 'works on my machine' bugs by getting environment configs, dependencies, and services in sync.
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Deployment
Get my secrets out of the repo and into a real secret store
Audit for leaked credentials and set up proper secret storage, rotation, and per-environment separation.
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Deployment
Plan capacity for launch without wildly overpaying
Right-size instances, database, and third-party quotas for expected traffic with a documented scale-up path.
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Database
Write a database disaster recovery plan
Documents exactly what to do when the database is lost or corrupted, with timed restore drills and clear recovery targets.
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Deployment
Plan a rollback strategy before you need one
Make sure you can undo a bad deploy in one step, including code, config, and any incompatible migrations.
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Deployment
Set up a first-week post-launch watchlist
Know what to watch, what to ignore, and what to fix during the shaky opening days after going live.
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Deployment
Walk the pre-launch checklist end to end
The final go/no-go pass across security, payments, data, deploy, and observability before you flip the switch.
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Testing
Build my manual launch-day test script
A written click-through checklist of everything to verify by hand in the hours before you open the doors.
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Deployment
Rotate my production secrets safely
Walks through rotating every API key, database credential, and signing secret with zero downtime, and sets a rotation cadence.
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Deployment
Deploy database migrations without breaking production
Run schema changes safely against a live database with zero-downtime patterns and a plan for the bad case.
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Deployment
Schedule cron jobs in production without silent failures
Run recurring jobs with locking, visibility, and alerts so a broken cron doesn't fail silently for weeks.
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Payments
Separate test and live payment modes completely
Locks test keys and live keys to their environments so test charges can't hit real cards and vice versa.
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Deployment
Set alerting thresholds you'll actually respond to
Tune alerts so real incidents wake you up and noise doesn't train you to ignore them.
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Deployment
Set log retention so old logs don't cost more than the app
Configure log retention and sampling so you keep what matters and don't pay to store noise forever.
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Deployment
Set the right cache headers on static assets and HTML
Cache aggressively for assets that never change and carefully for HTML, so users don't get stuck on old versions.
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Performance
Serve my static assets through a CDN
Put images, scripts, and styles on a CDN with correct cache headers so repeat visits and distant users stop waiting.
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Deployment
Set up a real CI/CD pipeline for my app
Automate tests, builds, and deploys so shipping isn't a manual ritual you skip when tired.
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Deployment
Set up spend alerts on all my services
Configures budget and usage alerts across hosting, database, email, and AI/API services so a surprise bill never lands unannounced.
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Database
Set up data retention and cleanup jobs
Adds scheduled cleanup for expired sessions, stale tokens, old logs, and abandoned records so tables don't grow forever.
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Database
Set up database backups and test a restore
Configures automated backups with retention, then actually restores one to prove it works.
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Database
Set up basic database monitoring
Adds visibility into connections, slow queries, disk growth, and locks with alerts before they become outages.
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Deployment
Notify me when deploys succeed or fail
Adds Slack or email notifications for deploy started, succeeded, and failed so a broken deploy never sits unnoticed.
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Deployment
Set up my domain and DNS without shooting my email in the foot
Point the domain at the app, keep email working, and lock down DNS with the right records and TTLs.
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Deployment
Set up error alerting so you hear about bugs before users do
Wire up an error tracker (Sentry or equivalent) with real grouping, notifications, and noise control.
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Deployment
Set up on-call basics for a small team (or a team of one)
Make sure the right person hears the pager, has access, and can hand off without heroics.
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Deployment
Set HTTP security headers on every response
Turn on the free browser-level protections your app is probably shipping without.
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Deployment
Set up a proper staging environment
Give yourself a production-shaped place to test deploys, migrations, and integrations before real users see them.
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Deployment
Set up a status page users can check when things break
Give users somewhere to look besides your support inbox during an incident.
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Deployment
Set up structured logging you can actually search
Replace console.log spam with structured, leveled logs that are searchable when things go wrong at 2am.
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Deployment
Set up uptime monitoring for the paths that actually matter
Monitor the flows users care about, not just a homepage ping that stays green while checkout is broken.
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Testing
Write smoke tests to run against production after every deploy
A small set of read-only checks that confirm the live site actually works right after a deploy goes out.
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Testing
Run an accessibility pass before launch
Adds automated axe checks to the test suite and walks the core flows with a keyboard to fix the worst violations.
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Database
Test migration rollbacks before you need them
Verifies every migration has a working down path and that rollbacks actually run clean against realistic data.
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Performance
Test my app's performance on real phones, not just my laptop
Check how your app actually runs on mid-range phones and cellular connections, where most users live.
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Performance
Triage my Lighthouse report into an actual fix list
Turn a wall of Lighthouse warnings into a prioritized list of real fixes, ignoring the noise.
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Deployment
Verify your database backups actually restore
Confirm backups exist, run on schedule, and can actually be restored before you need them.
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Deployment
Make my error tracking show real stack traces
Uploads source maps to the error tracker privately so production errors show original code, not minified garbage.
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Testing
Make my tests run automatically on every push
Set up CI so the test suite runs on every commit and pull request, with failures blocking merges.
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Deployment
Write a deploy runbook I can follow half-asleep
Document the actual pre-flight, deploy, and verification steps so shipping is boring and repeatable.
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Deployment
Write an incident response plan I'll actually follow
Decide in advance how to declare, communicate, resolve, and learn from incidents, before the first real one hits.
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Deployment
Write smoke tests you run against production after every deploy
Automated checks of the critical user flows against a live environment, so bad deploys get caught in minutes.
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Deployment
Set up a changelog and release process
Creates a lightweight changelog habit tied to deploys so 'what changed and when' is always answerable.
Want to skip doing this by hand?
Fortivibe audits your app for all of the areas these prompts cover (and more).
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