The workspace is a generous place to build: it hands your code a port, a filesystem and a database without being asked. Deployment takes all three away, and the five faults below are the ones that go with them.
The workspace starts your program the way it likes and shows you the result; the deployment runs the start command written in the project and nothing else. If that command was never the one you were actually using, the deployed process either fails immediately or serves something that was never meant to face the public.
Your server listens on a number typed into the source, and the deployment tells the process which port to use through the environment instead. Nothing is listening where the traffic arrives, so every request times out or returns an error page from the platform rather than from your app. One line reads the assigned port and this stops happening.
Uploads written next to the code, a JSON file used as storage, a folder created by hand while testing. The deployed filesystem starts clean and does not keep what you write to it between restarts, so reads fail and writes evaporate. This one usually means moving those files somewhere that is meant to hold them.
Secrets set for the workspace are not automatically the secrets the deployment runs with, and a missing one rarely announces itself: the value arrives as undefined and gets concatenated into a URL or a header. The error you see is from the service you are calling, which sends everyone looking in the wrong place.
The data you have been developing against lives with the workspace, and the deployment either points at nothing or at an empty instance. Logins fail because no accounts exist, lists render blank, and the app looks broken when all that is wrong is a database nobody has filled.
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You send a link, a repo, or both. We reproduce the problem, read the code, and record a short walkthrough: what's broken, why it broke, and what it takes to fix. You get written findings and a fixed quote.
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Scoped from the audit and agreed before anything starts. We fix the cause rather than the symptom, and hand back something maintainable, with a written note on what changed and why.
Nobody can price this honestly before seeing the code. The audit is what makes a firm number possible.
The audit is a fixed price and you know it before you pay. Everything after it is quoted from what the audit actually found, and you approve the number before any work starts.
What we can show you is who does the work, what it costs, and how well we already know the failure you are staring at.
This is run by a small web agency. The person who records your audit is the person who does the fix, so you're not being routed to an anonymous bidder.
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Plenty of people take the findings and do the work themselves, or hand them to their own developer. That is a fine outcome and nothing is bundled to stop it.
Book my auditYou approve a number before work starts. If the job turns out harder than we estimated, that's ours to absorb, not a change order.
Security is the part an AI builder is quietest about. None of these stop the app working, which is exactly why they ship.
If you recognised your own problem somewhere above, that is the point. The audit is where you find out which one it actually is.
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