Is my SaaS ready to launch? A production readiness framework
The honest checklist founders skip. Auth, payments, monitoring, backups, rate limits, and the ops baseline that separates a demo from a product.
You have built the features. The landing page is live. Stripe is connected. You are asking yourself: is this actually ready for real users who will pay real money and expect it to work? The answer is not about feature completeness — it is about operational readiness. Can your system handle failures gracefully, recover from outages, and keep customer data safe?
Is your auth production-ready?
OAuth redirect URIs pointing at localhost, password reset links that 404, session tokens that never expire, unprotected API routes — these are not edge cases. They are the most common launch blockers. Test every auth flow from a fresh browser with no cached state.
Is your payment stack verified?
Connected does not mean working. A Stripe integration is production-ready when: the webhook delivers and verifies, the checkout session creates with correct line items, the success redirect works on the production domain, and the database side effect (subscription created, entitlement granted) actually lands. Test the full loop, not just the API key.
Do you have monitoring before launch?
Monitoring is not a post-launch luxury. The first 24 hours after launch are when retry queues back up, webhook timeouts accumulate, DNS caches expire, and rate limits are hit for the first time. If you are not watching, you will not know until customers tell you — and by then you have lost trust.
Can you recover from data loss?
Having a backup configured is not the same as having a working backup. When was the last successful backup? Can you actually restore from it? Is the database paused (Supabase pauses inactive free-tier projects)? PreFlight's Backup Guard runs integrity drills and verifies your data is intact and readable — not just backed up.
The readiness framework
PreFlight scores your launch readiness across every dimension: auth, payments, providers, database, security, monitoring, and deployment. Instead of guessing whether you are ready, you get a concrete score with specific failing items and the fix for each one. Ship when the score is green, not when you feel brave.