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Signs Your App Isn't Ready to Ship: A Founder's Pre-Launch Checklist

A practical, non-exhaustive checklist to sanity-check release readiness before you submit to the stores.

Readiness is a decision, not a feeling

Signal 1: Core flows still surprise you

Signal 2: You can't reproduce or triage incoming bugs

Signal 3: Error and empty states are undefined

Signal 4: No crash and analytics instrumentation

Signal 5: No rollback or hotfix plan

The pre-launch checklist