App Maintenance & Support Checklist: Requirements, Security, and Launch Readiness

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Context: App Maintenance & Support

Pre-build checklist

• Define the user journey and acceptance criteria
• Write a requirements brief with non-negotiables
• Confirm data ownership, privacy, and retention
• List integrations and rate limits

Security and reliability checklist

• Authentication and authorization model
• Secrets handling and environment separation
• Backups and disaster recovery basics
• Monitoring for latency, errors, and saturation

Launch checklist

• Analytics events and conversion tracking
• Performance budget and load test
• Rollback plan and incident runbook
• Post-launch iteration plan (weekly cadence)

Next steps

Use this checklist, then validate scope with us via contact.

Keywords to map internally

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