Claude Code will happily ship you a demo. This tells you whether it shipped you a product.
Twelve pieces make up a production-grade app. Most people skip four or five of them. Not on purpose, but by accident, and they find out which ones when something breaks in front of a customer.
This is a one-page checklist of all twelve, in plain language.
Run your current project down the list and mark each piece Need, Have, or Skip. The ones you mark Need but do not Have are your real backlog, in priority order. The ones you Skip, you are now skipping on purpose.
Inside:
• All 12 pieces in plain language, with the jargon names included so you can talk to engineers
• What actually happens if you skip each one
• The one question that decides whether a piece is in or out
• Three worked examples: a personal script (4 pieces), an internal team tool (6 to 8), a public paid app (all 12)
Production-grade is not "build all twelve." It is knowing all twelve so you choose deliberately.
Free. Take it.