Launch Readiness Checklist
Everything to verify before real users hit real buttons.
Launch-day fires are almost always failures you could have checked on Thursday.
The journey, step by step
Where the work concentrates
- Core flows5
- Infrastructure5
- Trust surface5
- Rollback plan4
Core flows
Sign up with a fresh email. End to end.
Complete the primary journey as a brand-new user.
Test payment with a real card, then refund it.
Trigger every transactional email and read each one.
Break the forms: empty fields, long strings, emojis.
Infrastructure
Error tracking live and alerting to a phone.
Database backups running and restore tested once.
SSL valid, redirects from every domain variant.
Uptime monitor pinging the core endpoint.
Rate limits on auth and public API routes.
Trust surface
Privacy policy and terms linked in the footer.
Support email answered by a human within a day.
Meta titles, descriptions, and social cards render correctly.
404 page points users back to the product.
Pricing page states the price. No 'contact us' only.
Rollback plan
One-command rollback tested this week.
Feature flags on anything risky.
A status line ready to post if things break.
One owner on call for the first 48 hours.
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