3 Prompts to Help You Build Reliable Production Ready Apps
Respect your users and build something reliable
Some people consider this the boring part. It’s about respecting your users enough to build something reliable.
Your creative energy got you to an AI-assisted prototype. Systematic thinking gets you shipping a secure production ready app.
#1 The 15-Minute Polish
Clean Up Your UI
Your app works but looks like a prototype. Here’s what screams amateur:
❌ Broken navigation links
❌ Jarring page transitions
❌ Inconsistent spacing/colors
❌ Mobile looks broken
15 minutes of intentional polish fixes these issues.
Use this prompt in discussion mode:
“Review my app so we can clean up the UI:
- Identify any nav links that are dead or placeholder links and and output bullet point list.
- Identify where we can add smooth page transitions and subtle component animations and output bullet point list.
- Identify any inconsistent styles or themes across all of the pages and components and output bullet point list.
- Identify any responsive design issues across all of the pages and components and output bullet point list.”
When the AI agent outputs the bullet lists you can chat back and forth and have it implement the suggested changes.
#2 Can My Grandmother Use This? Test
Fix Your UX
Your app makes sense to you. But can someone else figure it out in 30 seconds?
To ensure your app is intuitive you want:
✅ A smooth onboarding experience for new users
✅ Empty states that guide users to next steps
✅ Full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) functionality
✅ Error messages that actually help
Use this prompt in discussion mode:
“Review my app an make a plan for these UX improvements:
- Identify any gaps in my user onboarding journey (e.g. after login is the user taken to a welcome screen?) and output bullet point list.
- Identify all empty states so we can replacing them with actionable content that guides users toward their next steps and output bullet point list.
- Identify any resources without user friendly CRUD functionality and output bullet point list.
- Identify any error messages that don’t have simple non-tech jargon and output bullet point list.”
When the AI agent outputs the bullet lists you can chat back and forth and have it implement the suggested changes.
#3 Fix Bugs Before Users Find Them
Set Up Monitoring
Nothing worse than finding out your app is broken from an angry user email.
Use a tool like Sentry for error tracking like:
✅ Real-time error alerts
✅ Performance monitoring
✅ User session replay
Use this prompt and replace the details to match the AI tool you’re using and the app your building:
“Assist me in setting up error monitoring in my app:
- I have built a habit tracker app using Bolt
- Frontend is React and Supabase database
- Use the Sentry docs here: [docs URL here]
- (1) Write a prompt that I can use in Bolt to configure Sentry in my project
- (2) Create a step-by-step guide for me to implement this”
Set it up once, sleep better forever!
Ciara Wearen ✌️
The Prompt Driven Developer