The AI Founder's Guide to Vibe Coding Production-Ready Apps

Building an app with an AI coding agent takes a weekend. Building the company the app was supposed to become is a different job entirely — and almost nobody explains that second job before the first invoice arrives. This book exists because of a real, repeating pattern: a founder uses Claude, Replit, Cursor, or ChatGPT to ship a working app, then quietly fails downstream because nobody explained entity formation, App Store compliance, data privacy, or production security before they needed it. The 50-Step Playbook covers ten dependency layers every vibe-coding founder has to navigate: company structure and formation, federal identity and banking, IP assignment and ownership documentation, payment processing, data privacy and COPPA, App Store submission rules (including Guideline 2.5.2, which blocked Replit and Vibecode in 2026), production security, AI model-provider data terms, public identity, and company continuity. Every claim was checked against current, named sources before it was allowed onto a page. Where the answer genuinely depends on your circumstances — entity choice above all — the book says so directly rather than offering one confident answer that fits nobody. Thirty-four pages. No filler. Written by a founder who has personally deployed five live businesses using AI coding agents and watched speed-as-the-whole-goal cause more damage than any other single habit. Verified through July 2026.