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We Teardown AI-Generated Web Apps: The 3 AI-Specific Security Mistakes
An empirical teardown of AI-generated web apps. We looked for the failures that only happen when code is vibed — Supabase RLS gaps, AI API keys shipped to the browser, and login forms generated with insecure defaults. Here's what we found and how to fix each one.
Share a Scorecard Instead of a Screenshot: Public Vergate Links
Vergate now generates public share links: a safe scorecard with health grade, module scores, security summary, and tech stack — nothing a competitor could weaponize (no vulnerability details, no endpoints). Post it in Slack, on your profile, or in a client report.
Sentry-class error tracking, white-labeled for your own stack
Vergate Error Tracking is a zero-branding error-monitoring product you can ship under your own name. One script tag captures JS errors with stack traces, groups them into issues, and gives you resolve workflows — with no third-party branding anywhere.
White-labeled analytics for your clients, from your own domain
Vergate Analytics is a zero-branding, cookieless web analytics product you can resell. One script tag, your domain as the collector, and full dashboards — no client ever sees a third-party hostname or 'Powered by' line.
What are GitHub integrations? A practical guide for developers
GitHub integrations connect your repositories to third-party tools — CI/CD, code scanning, project management and more. Learn how they work, the types that exist, and what to look for before you install one.
How Vergate's GitHub integration works — and why it's privacy-respecting by design
A technical deep-dive into Vergate's GitHub App: the webhook architecture, JWT-signed installation tokens, Check Run feedback in your PRs, and exactly what we do — and don't — read from your repositories.
Troubleshoot Website Performance Issues: A Developer's Guide
Diagnose and fix the most common website performance problems — slow TTFB, bloated JavaScript, unoptimized images, render-blocking resources, and server misconfiguration.
SEO Audit Checklist 2026: What to Check and Why
A practical SEO audit checklist covering meta tags, structured data, Core Web Vitals, crawlability, and AI-answer-engine optimization — with tools and fixes for each item.
Security Headers Explained: The Complete 2026 Guide
Every HTTP security header decoded — what it does, what to set, common mistakes, and how to audit your site in seconds. Covers CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, and more.
How to Audit a Next.js App for Security Misconfigurations and Header Leaks
Default Next.js production setups leak server runtime info, misconfigure CORS, and expose internal routes. Here's the audit — inspect headers, find env leaks, verify CORS — with code fixes for next.config.js.
Lightweight Web Auditing vs. OWASP ZAP: Choosing the Right Security Workflow
OWASP ZAP is powerful but heavy — complex setup, minutes per scan, massive false positives. Here's when to use ZAP, when to use lightweight scanners, and how to build a layered security workflow.
How to Pass a Security Audit: The Practical Playbook
Everything you need to pass a website security audit — from vulnerability scanning to compliance checklists, penetration testing prep, and remediation strategies that actually work.
How to Monitor Website Uptime: A Practical Guide
Set up website uptime monitoring that actually works — from basic health checks to multi-location verification, alerting, and response-time tracking.
FastAPI Production Checklist: CORS, Rate Limiting, and Diagnostic Monitoring
FastAPI is fast to build with, but production-ready middleware is often left as an afterthought. Here's the checklist for CORS, exception leakage, async pitfalls, and structured logging.
Debugging Background Workers and Message Queues: How to Detect Consumer Bottlenecks
Your API returns 200 OK fast, but background queues quietly back up — stale state, delayed emails, dropped webhooks. Here's how to measure end-to-end task latency, spot serialization locks, and build queue health endpoints.
We Audited 50 Popular Web Applications: The Top 4 Security Mistakes We Found
An empirical teardown of 50 real websites. 68% lacked proper CSP or HSTS, 30% leaked stack traces on malformed input, 25% had public staging endpoints, and 17% had broken TLS chains. Here's what we found and how to fix it.
How we handle vulnerability reports (and what we'd do with yours)
We're a security company, so people poke at our product. Here's our published policy: what we promise reporters, what's in scope, how fast we respond, and the safe-harbor commitment that makes it safe to tell us we're wrong.
We want you to leave us (until you shouldn't)
The un-marketing post: exactly when you should NOT use Vergate — one-off audits, penetration tests, keyword research, simple static sites. Because a customer who stays because we tricked them is a customer who leaves angry.
We scanned our own site and found real problems. Here's everything.
Dogfooding isn't a marketing stunt — it's embarrassing. Our own scanner found 8 real issues on vergate.dev (including zero security headers), we fixed them, and we learned something about our own hosting provider along the way.
The 5-minute pre-deploy security checklist (for anyone shipping fast)
You're about to push to production. You have five minutes. Here's the exact checklist — free scan, headers, exposed files, secrets, deps, redirects, cookies — that catches the majority of real-world breaks before your users do.
Audit us: our engine is open, our reports are signed, and we'll show you the receipts
Every security claim on the internet is a trust claim. Here's how Vergate makes trust verifiable instead of vibes: an open engine, evidence on every finding, tamper-evident signed reports, and the time our own scanner caught our own mistakes.
What actually differentiates Vergate from standard SEO/AEO tools?
Rank trackers, keyword tools, crawl audits — the SEO space is crowded. Here's the honest breakdown of what standard tools do well, what they miss, and where Vergate genuinely differs.
How a silent TypeError drained our cloud credits and what we learned
A Python string-vs-datetime mismatch caused orphan droplets to bill for 3 days. Full postmortem with root cause, compounding bugs, and the fix.
What is MCP, and why should a developer care?
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard that turns AI assistants from chat windows into tools that can actually act. Here's what it is, how it works, and the concrete ways a developer benefits.
Why you can trust our monitoring (and the limits you should know)
You're handing a startup your uptime checks, threat scans and site data. Here's exactly what we do with it, how our checks actually work, why reports are tamper-evident — and the limits we won't pretend don't exist.
Lighthouse is free. Why would anyone pay for performance monitoring?
Lighthouse is a genuinely great, free tool — and for a one-off page audit you should use it. Here's the honest case for continuous monitoring on top of it, and the cases where you shouldn't.
Why We Built Vergate: A Security Scanner for Vibe Coders
Security scanning was built for enterprises, but AI made everyone a developer. Why we built Vergate for vibe coders — and what's next.
Know Your Stack: Technology Profiling Is a Security Practice
You can't secure what you don't know is running. Technology profiling turns your stack into an asset — for CVEs, compliance, and cleanup.
Accessible by Default: WCAG for AI-Written Interfaces
AI writes your components; who checks they're accessible? Here's a WCAG 2.1 AA baseline for AI-generated UIs — and how to audit it.
Core Web Vitals in 2026: Performance for AI-Generated Apps
LCP, INP, CLS: what they are, what 'good' looks like in 2026, and the five fixes that matter most for apps built fast with AI.
The Security Headers Every AI-Built Site Needs
Missing security headers are an instant fail on any scan. Here's the exact header set for AI-built sites, what each one does, and how to set them.
How to Rank in AI Search Engines (AEO)
ChatGPT and Perplexity now answer questions before Google does. Learn how to structure your content for AI answer engines and win AI traffic.
Vibe Coding Security: What Every AI-First Dev Should Know
AI writes code fast — and fast is exactly when security gaps slip in. Here's how to ship AI-generated code without shipping vulnerabilities.