How We Moved From Prototype to Production Without Rewriting Everything

The Gap Between "Built" and "Production-Ready" Nobody Talks About You've built something with Lovable or Bolt. It works. Your co-founder tested it. A few users kicked the tires. Now you need to actually run it on real infrastructure, and suddenly you hit a wall that the builder platform never prepared you for. Here's what actually happens when you try to move an AI-built app to production: the code exports fine. The database migration looks clean. Then you realize the builder was optimizing for iteration, not infrastructure. You don't have deployment history. There's no rollback mechanism.