Vibe Code Rescue · Austin

Vibe Code Rescue
in Austin

Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.

A founder ships an MVP in a weekend with Cursor or Claude Code. Six months later we get the email. Stripe is leaking, Supabase is wide open, four auth patterns coexist, every senior who looks at the codebase quits within a week. We rescue this kind of project weekly. The product won the customer. We don't throw the product away. We replace the engine in two weeks, keep the brand, keep the customers, hand back a codebase the next engineer can actually maintain.

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Engagement shape

From

$1,000

Flat price, quoted after 30-min call

Timeline

14 days

First production deploy

1

Senior engineer, named

Day 1

Code in your GitHub

$0

Retainer, equity, lock-in

How this works

One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.

One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships vibe code rescue that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Austin who need to ship before the next round closes.

The local read

Why vibe code rescue is hard in Austin

Austin's tech wave brought the SF cost structure with it. 60+ days to fill the role. $310K all-in for the kind of engineer you actually want. And the local agency option is mostly staffing shops billing hourly with a bench problem you'll end up subsidizing.

We're the other thing. One engineer owns your build from spec to deploy. Flat price quoted up front — not by the hour, not by milestone padding. Code in your GitHub from commit one. When the build ends, you walk away clean: no retainer, no notice period, no key-person dependency you didn't sign up for.

Hiring one senior engineer here is a ~$310K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our vibe code rescue engagement starts at $1,000 with a first deploy in 14 days.

Did you know · Austin

South by Southwest started in 1987 as a music conference. The interactive (tech) track launched in 1994 with around 150 attendees. It now pulls north of 50,000.

Time zone

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CT

We work on Central Time, so we overlap with your in-house team, your investors, and your customers in the same window.

Sectors in Austin

AI and ML toolingDefense techRoboticsB2B SaaSConsumer product

Stack we use

Next.jsCursor / Claude CodeSupabase / PostgresStripeClerk / Auth.jsSentry

What you actually get

Concrete deliverables.
Live in 14 days.

No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.

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48-hour written audit covering auth, RLS, secrets, money handling, observability

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Foundation week: key rotation, RLS lockdown, CI with real test suite, Sentry + logs

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Migration: production cutover with zero downtime, old stack running in parallel for 72 hours

04

Documented handoff so the next engineer doesn't quit on day one

Why us

Why founders in Austin pick us for this

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We have rescued ten vibe-coded apps this year — same seven defects every time

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We don't rebuild from scratch — roughly 60 percent of your existing code stays untouched

03

We leave the codebase set up for Claude Code / Cursor with guardrails, not stripped of them

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Flat-price quote in 48 hours after the audit, no scope-creep negotiations

Vibe Code Rescue we've shipped

Founders we shipped vibe code rescue with

Real founders, real product, real testimonials. The kind of vibe code rescue work we'd do for you in Austin.

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FAQ

Common questions about vibe code rescue
in Austin

How fast can you start the rescue?

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We can clone and audit your repository today. Written 48-hour audit comes back inside two business days. Active rescue work usually starts within seven days of the audit.

Do you keep my existing code?

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Mostly yes. Roughly 60 percent of the codebase stays — UI, brand, anything stateless. We rewrite 30 percent (auth, payments, multi-tenant boundaries, AI tool connections). We delete 10 percent (dead routes, ghost integrations).

Can I still use Cursor or Claude Code after the rescue?

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Yes, and we leave the codebase set up for that. We add typed schemas, critical-path tests, and a CLAUDE.md that scopes the agent to safe areas. Most founders ship features twice as fast post-rescue because every change runs through CI.

What if my Stripe or Supabase keys are leaked?

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We rotate every key inside the first 48 hours — Stripe, Supabase, OpenAI, anything we find. We assume old values are in someone's Docker cache or git history. Rotation is non-negotiable.

How much does a rescue cost?

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Audits start at $1K (often free for warm leads). A focused rescue is $1K–$25K. The lower end covers small repos with a tight scope; the upper end is a full two-week engagement with two engineers. Flat-price quote after the audit.

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