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Google AI Studio will vibe code a full app for you. Two lines in its docs to read before you share it.

Google's own documentation uses the words "vibe code" for AI Studio's Build mode. It also says what happens to your API key when you deploy, and who can see your code when you share. Here's what it builds, and the checks Google's pages leave to you.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min

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Someone scanned 30,998 vibe-coded apps. Here's what the 57% "open Supabase" number really means.

A headline says more than half of vibe-coded apps leave their database open. The report behind it is more careful than the headline, and so is the number: what it measured, what it didn't, and the one check that matters for your app.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 8 min

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You vibe-coded an app. Here's everything to check before real people use it.

You built it by describing it to Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit or v0 — the hard part's done. This is the map of the rest: understand what the AI built, fix the errors you'll Google, ship it so strangers can't break it, and handle the day a real customer shows up.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 9 min

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Your Supabase anon key is visible in the browser. Is that a problem?

Short version: the anon (publishable) key is meant to be public — as long as Row Level Security is on. The key that must never leak is the other one. Here's how to tell which you're looking at.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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Your app says "new row violates row-level security policy". Here's what it's protecting.

It's not a bug — it's your database refusing to let the wrong person write a row. Why the error shows up the moment security is on, and the right way to fix it (never "disable RLS").

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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The 6 things to fix in your Replit app before anyone sees it

Before you share a Replit app, six things to check so strangers can't read each other's data or run up your bill — including the one backup check behind Replit's most infamous 2025 data-loss story.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 7 min

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The 6 things to check in your v0 app before you ship

v0 turns a prompt into a real Next.js app on Vercel — but who's allowed to see your data is a setting you have to confirm. Six things to check before you ship, starting with the one Next.js setting that quietly puts keys in the browser.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 7 min

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The 6 things to check in your Cursor-built app before you ship

Cursor works in the project you bring, and what that project connects to is your call — so every security check is yours. Six things to confirm before you ship, and the one (reading the code) that matters most.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 7 min

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The 6 things to fix in your Bolt app before anyone sees it

Bolt built it and its scan catches two of the big risks — but four checks are still yours before you share the link, so nobody can read each other's data or run up your AI bill.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 7 min

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The 6 things to fix in your Lovable app before anyone sees it

You built it by describing it to Lovable — now, before you share the link, six things to check so strangers can't read each other's data or run up your bill. Lovable helps with some; these are the rest.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 7 min

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Your API keys are in the browser: which ones matter and the fix

Whatever your app sends to the browser, anyone can read. Which keys are designed to be public, which must never be, how secrets end up there, and the server-function fix, from each vendor's own docs.

Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 7 min

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Your Lovable app might be showing everyone's data — one setting fixes it

The single database setting behind the biggest vibe-coded app leaks, shown as a who-can-see-what table you can toggle: data wide open, then locked to its owner. The policy your AI tool should be writing.

Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 7 min

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The Moltbook breach: what a public Supabase key without RLS grants

An AI-built social network left its whole database readable and writable. The key wasn't stolen; one setting was missing. What happened, from Wiz's write-up, and the lesson for anyone building on Supabase.

Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 7 min

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Before you share your vibe-coded app: the 6 security checks

The six mistakes behind 2026's vibe-coded app exposures, turned into checks you can do without reading code: RLS, secrets, server-side auth, admin, webhooks and rate limits.

Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 8 min