Should I Ship
Free local CLI scan for launch risks in AI-built apps, with a $10 one-time full report
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Should I Ship is a CLI-first launch-readiness scanner aimed at apps built with AI assistance. The premise is blunt: you built it with AI, and it checks whether it is safe to put in front of real users. The main product runs in the terminal — npx should-i-ship@latest scan from your project folder — with source code staying local and results written as Markdown plus JSON. The free scan is unlimited and can be re-run as often as you like while you fix things; it shows the top three findings ranked by severity with details and fixes, and locks the rest by severity and category. When you want the full diagnosis, you generate an unlock link and pay $10 once for the complete report: every issue, exact file locations, fix suggestions, AI repair prompts, and a shareable report. Crucially, the paid unlock uploads findings metadata only — findings, referenced file paths, scores, counts, and scan metadata — and explicitly not source code, file contents, environment variables, or ignored files, and a --no-upload flag exists for scans that should stay entirely local. There is also a free browser preview that scans a small public slice of a public repo for a fast read on the rules before installing anything. The vendor publishes aggregated, sanitized signal from stored previews showing that most scanned apps are not clean, with common findings being hardcoded credentials, API routes missing authentication, absent rate limiting, and partial input validation.
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Should I Ship Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- +$10 once, not a subscription — priced for a solo builder shipping one app
- +Source code never uploaded, and the upload boundary is documented explicitly
- +Free scans are unlimited, so it is usable throughout the fix cycle
- +Findings map to the failure modes AI-generated apps actually exhibit
⚠️ Cons
- −Explicitly not a substitute for a real security review
- −Free tier showing only three findings will feel thin on a messy codebase
- −Rule-based scanning misses logic flaws no static check can catch
- −The $10 unlock is per report, so repeated deep checks add up
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