Symptom

Anyone who opens your app can read your whole database.

We ask people to check this one first, because it is common, it is silent, and the gap between shipping and finding out is where the damage happens. While it is true, nothing inside your application looks the least bit wrong.

The database is open to anyone with the URL

What it looks like

Nothing, from where you are standing. No failed sign-in to notice, no error to chase, nothing slower than yesterday, because reading your records does not require breaking anything. Most people learn about it from somewhere else entirely: a researcher's email, an automated report from a scanner, or their own customer list turning up in a place they did not put it.

Why it actually happens

Everything a stranger needs is already on the page your site serves, because your own screens use it to work at all: an address to ask, and a token to ask with. From there, a few lines typed into a browser console request the contents of a table — not the pages you designed, but the rows beneath them, in bulk, in one go, with nobody signed in. That is the part people underestimate, and it is what makes this unlike a leaked password: a password belongs to one person and can be replaced by tea time, whereas here the address and the token were always meant to be readable, and what should have refused the request was never put there.

How we find out which one it is

We list your tables against the rules each of them carries and mark every table holding anything about a person. Then, with your permission, we make the request an outsider would make: your public key, your address, no account, and we read back whatever comes. What you get is a table-by-table statement of what is reachable without signing in, which is the form of the answer you can act on.

What the fix touches

Every table holding records that belong to somebody: rules enabled, then a policy written for each operation, saying which rows an account may read, insert, update and delete. The application changes too, because queries written while everything was permitted often ask for rows they were never entitled to, and a page doing that starts coming back empty the moment the rules land.

Should I take the site down while this is being fixed?
Usually not, and it is a decision we make with you on the first pass rather than by reflex. Enabling the rules before the policies exist takes the app away from everybody, so the order the work happens in matters more here than the speed of it.
How do I check this myself in five minutes?
Check it from the outside rather than from a dashboard, because the outside is the only view that looks the same whichever product is underneath. Open your site in a browser you have never signed into, watch the network panel while a page loads, and read what the app asks for and what comes back. Records arriving while nobody is logged in is the answer.
Does a key in my page source mean I made a mistake?
Not by itself. There are two kinds of key and only one of them belongs in a browser. The audit tells you which of yours went out, and if it turns out to be the other one, that becomes the most urgent line on the list.
Will my app still work afterwards?
It works, and a few screens change. Once rows belong to accounts, a list that had been quietly showing everybody's records shows the right ones instead, and we walk you through each affected page rather than letting you find them later.

How it works

Audit

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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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Full Fix

Priced after the audit

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.

Why trust us with it

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.

A desk at night, the walkthrough being recorded

A small agency, not a marketplace

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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The audit stands on its own

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.

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You approve a number before work starts. If the job turns out harder than we estimated, that's ours to absorb, not a change order.

Built with one of these? You're in the right place.

Lovable
Lovable projects usually break at the Supabase edge: environment variables that never reached production, or row-level security left open on a table that holds real customer data.
Bolt
Bolt ships fast and leaves the build config behind. The deploy fails on a missing package, a Node version, or an API key that only ever existed in the preview.
Replit
Replit apps run fine in the workspace and 500 on a real domain: ports, file paths and secrets that were never wired up for the deployed process.
Cursor
Cursor edits confidently across files it has not read. Two features end up disagreeing about the same state, and the bug moves every time you fix it.
v0
v0 gives you the interface, not the wiring. Forms post to nothing, server actions are still stubs, and auth is a component rather than a session.
Windsurf
Windsurf refactors reach further than intended. Imports, types and routes drift apart until the build stops on something unrelated to what you changed.
Base44
Base44 apps hit their ceiling at data and roles: the model that fit the demo cannot carry a second kind of user without redoing what sits underneath it.
Claude Code
Claude Code writes real code, which means real dependencies, migrations and tests. When it breaks, it breaks somewhere prompting cannot reach.

What it usually turns out to be

It works locally, then 500s once deployed
Nearly always an environment variable, a build step or a file path that only exists on your machine. The code is usually fine.
The AI keeps fixing the same bug
Each pass patches the symptom because the cause sits a layer down, in the data model or in how state is shared. Prompting harder does not reach it.
Forms submit but nothing arrives
The browser gets a success back while the server quietly fails. Without error handling and logs nobody finds out until a customer complains.
Logins drop or leak between users
Session and auth code copied from an example built for a different rendering model. It looks right in testing and breaks under real traffic.

And what nobody notices until later

Security is the part an AI builder is quietest about. None of these stop the app working, which is exactly why they ship.

The database is open to anyone with the URL
Supabase and Firebase hand the browser a key on purpose — the row policies are what actually guard the data. Generated projects routinely ship with those policies off, which turns a public key into a key to everything.
Secrets that shipped to the browser
A service key pasted into a component, or one prefixed NEXT_PUBLIC_ so the build would stop complaining. It is in the page source, readable in devtools, and the bill for it is yours.
Any logged-in user can read every other user's data
The endpoint takes an id and returns that record without ever asking whose it is. Nothing looks wrong while you are the only account; change the number in the URL and you are in someone else's.
Nothing stops the same request a thousand times over
No rate limit and no real validation on the public routes, so login, password reset and checkout can each be hammered until something gives. Generated code almost never adds this on its own.

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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