
Rebuilding an AI-Built App for Production: What It Costs
The prototype is not 80% of the product. Here is what survives the rebuild, what always gets thrown away, and what the cost really tracks.
The Devfinix Blog
No recycled listicles. Every article here comes out of a real project — what we built, what we measured, and what we'd tell a client to do differently.

Plenty of sites should be built on a builder, and we will say so. Here is the line, and what crossing it actually costs you.

Most buyers who think they need something bespoke do not. Six questions decide it, and the hybrid answer most comparisons skip is usually the right one.

Core Web Vitals are a tiebreaker, not a lever. The honest case for fixing them has more to do with conversion and crawl efficiency than with position.

Google captures demand that already exists. Meta creates demand for something nobody was searching for. Choose by which one your offer actually needs.

Every page-one result for this comparison is published by someone selling the headless half. We sell neither, so here is the version with the costs left in.

Every page-one result for this term is a plugin vendor. Here is the file we actually ship, the code that generates it, and what is genuinely known about adoption.

Most schema advice is a list of types to add. The harder questions are which ones a machine can actually use, and what has to be true of your HTML before any of it counts.

Most wasted Google Ads budget is not exotic. It sits in seven places you can check before lunch, plus one nobody looks at: your own conversion tracking.
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