Everyone says it’s easy to hack a vibe coded app… These steps will protect you against 99% of common attacks. #cybersecurity #vibecoding #apikeys #ratelimiting #solofounder

I built a number one food discovery app in my state. Here's how to not get hacked when vibe coding your app. Number one is to never expose your API keys. This is one of the most common and expensive mistakes you can make. If you're open AI, Stripe, or Cloud Code is sitting in the front end of your app, that's pretty much like giving your credit card to complete strangers. So here's the rule, your API key should live in the server only. You're using something like Bolt, Replic, Use Environment variables, and always use Edge functions for every API call. Number two is Input Validation. Anything users can type into your app, whether it's in a search box or a prompt can be dangerous. People can try to paste in codes or commands to break into your database and steal other users' data. To make sure this never happens, tell your AI tool to sanitize all user inputs. This will pretty much take care of all of that by itself. Number three is Building Your Own Authentication. Instead of managing passwords, tokens, and sessions yourself, use a well-established authentication platform. You can use clerk, firebase, superbase, alt-zero. These are usually free to use and pretty easy to integrate as well. Next, we have Rate Limiting. People can use this to scrape your data, abuse your AI features, or simply just crash your app. If somebody can hit your back and 10,000 times per minute, they will. To make sure this doesn't happen, tell your AI tool to add rate limiting to your API routes. One line of code can save you from nightmares.