Definition
Production-Ready App
An app that meets security requirements (no exposed PII, no auth vulnerabilities), passes App Store or Play Store review (account deletion flows, privacy disclosures, content guidelines), handles real customer data reliably, and performs correctly at scale. Visually and functionally indistinguishable from a prototype at demo time — the difference is entirely in what happens when real customers use it. The gap between 'demo-ready' and 'production-ready' is the core problem Woz was built to solve for non-technical founders who don't know what they don't know.
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