AI security review for vibe-coded apps
$29/mo scan for the app you vibe-coded. Finds exposed keys, missing auth and open database rules — and hands you the prompt that fixes them.
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Veracode tested 80 coding tasks across more than 100 models and found that AI-generated code introduces a security vulnerability 45% of the time — when the model had a choice between a secure and an insecure method, it took the insecure one just as often. That was survivable while the people shipping AI code were engineers with a code review step. In 2026 they are not. Lovable, Bolt, Replit and Base44 put production apps in the hands of founders who have never opened a terminal, and those apps go live with the Supabase anon key sitting in the client bundle, no row-level security on the tables, and an /admin route with no auth check. Nothing on the market fits that person: enterprise AppSec platforms start around $300/mo for a ten-seat team, AI code reviewers bill $24–$30 per seat and live inside GitHub pull requests the vibe coder never opens, and every Show HN in this space ships a CLI or a pre-commit hook that assumes you know what a pre-commit hook is. A $29/mo security review built for one non-technical founder and one vibe-coded app — paste the URL, get a plain-English risk list and the exact prompt to paste back into your builder — has no incumbent at all.
Why now
Two curves crossed this year. AI app builders made shipping a real, database-backed product a weekend activity for people with no engineering background — and the security tooling stayed exactly where it was, priced and packaged for teams. Search 'vibe coding security checklist' and Google returns Replit's docs, a Cloud Security Alliance paper, a GitHub repo and four enterprise vendor blogs: the market is answering this question with content because nobody has shipped the product. Meanwhile the indie attempts keep coming and keep dying as free CLI tools, because a developer who can install a pre-commit hook does not need to pay for one — and the person who would pay cannot install it. That mismatch is the whole opportunity, and it closes the moment Lovable or Replit ships a native 'security check' button.
Market gap
The buyers split into two served segments and one abandoned one. Engineering teams are covered: CodeRabbit at $24/mo/user (Security tier $40/mo/user), Greptile at $30/seat/month, Snyk Team from $25/mo per contributing developer — all per-seat, all wired into GitHub pull requests. Security teams are covered: Aikido at $300/month for a ten-user base, and the Checkmarx/Cycode/Wiz tier above it. The abandoned segment is the solo non-technical founder with exactly one app, no team, no PR workflow and no vocabulary for what a CWE is — who is precisely the person the Veracode number is about. Everything built for them so far is a free developer CLI: TheAuditor, Vibecheck, hackmenot, AI Code Guard, aiguard-scan. A hosted $29/mo scan that speaks builder-English instead of AppSec-English, and returns a paste-back fix prompt rather than a CVE list, has no direct competitor.
Proof signals
6 sourced proofs ↓Veracode 2025 GenAI Code Security Report
80 curated coding tasks across 100+ LLMs: AI-generated code introduced security vulnerabilities in 45% of cases, with an 86% failure rate against cross-site scripting. No improvement in security despite gains in functionality.
veracode.com ↗Complaint"I vibe coded and shipped an app in three days. It got hacked. Twice."
HN thread on the canonical failure story for this buyer: ship fast with AI, get compromised, discover the problem from the outside. Exactly the moment a $29 scan gets bought.
news.ycombinator.com ↗LaunchShow HN: TheAuditor — Offline security scanner for AI-generated code
13 points, 32 comments. Author: 'After building several systems with Claude, I noticed a pattern: the code always had security issues I could spot from my ops background.' Free CLI, no business model.
news.ycombinator.com ↗LaunchShow HN: SafeVibe — collaborative database to fix security gaps in vibe coding
Dec 2025. 'We know that security is often the weak point in vibe coding.' Shipped as a free, explicitly non-commercial observatory — demand acknowledged, monetization left on the table.
news.ycombinator.com ↗LaunchShow HN: Autofix Bot — hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent
DeepSource (YC W20), 37 points. Built 'for in-the-loop use with AI coding agents' — but sold to engineering teams inside the PR workflow, which is the segment that already has review coverage.
news.ycombinator.com ↗ComplaintHN: an AI-built agent shipped with vulnerabilities flagged by a vibe-coding security platform
Commenter quotes Ox Security flagging vulnerabilities in a widely-shared AI-built project, and the creator brushing it off. The enterprise vendors are already naming this category — they just aren't selling to its actual users.
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Pricing tiers
Free one-time scan + 'Shipped with AI?' checklist
Paste a URL, get the top 3 findings and the count of everything else. The withheld findings are the upgrade. Checklist PDF covers the eight failure modes AI builders repeat: client-side keys, missing RLS, unauthenticated admin routes, open storage buckets, no rate limits, SQL string concatenation, secrets in git history, permissive CORS.
Guard
One app, continuous scanning, re-scan on every deploy, full findings in plain English, copy-paste fix prompts tuned per builder (Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor), email alert when a new hole appears.
Guard Pro
Up to 5 apps, Supabase and Firebase rule auditing, dependency and secret-history scanning, a shareable one-page security report to send an enterprise customer during procurement, and monthly human-reviewed triage.
Pricing thesis · subscription
Per-app, not per-seat — the entire positioning is that this buyer has no seats. $29/mo sits below the threshold where a solo founder needs to think, and comfortably under the per-developer floor of every AI code reviewer, so the comparison always flatters. The free scan is the acquisition engine and the paywall lands exactly where anxiety peaks: after the finding count is revealed but before the findings are. $99 Pro exists for the moment a customer's own enterprise prospect asks for a security document.
- CodeRabbit Pro — $24/mo/user (billed annually) (checked August 14, 2026)
- CodeRabbit Security — $40/mo/user (checked August 14, 2026)
- Greptile Pro — $30/seat/month (checked August 14, 2026)
- Snyk Team — from $25/month per contributing developer (checked August 14, 2026)
- Aikido Security Basic — $300/month (10 users included) (checked August 14, 2026)
Execution plan
Week 1-2: ship the free scan — URL input, headless crawl for exposed keys and unauthenticated routes, Semgrep and gitleaks over a connected repo, LLM layer that rewrites each finding as one sentence a non-engineer understands plus a paste-back fix prompt. Stripe, $29/mo single tier. Week 3: lead magnet and distribution — post the free scanner in r/vibecoding, r/lovable, r/nocode and the Lovable and Bolt Discords, and publish 'I scanned 100 public Lovable apps, here is what I found' as the launch artifact. Week 4-8: builder-specific rule packs (Supabase RLS, Firebase rules), re-scan-on-deploy webhooks, and the shareable security report that makes Pro a procurement unlock. Month 3: SEO on the 'vibe coding security checklist / risks / vulnerabilities' cluster, which currently has no product ranking on it.
Avatar · Channel · Pitch
Marc, 34, non-technical. Built a booking tool for pilates studios in Lovable over two weekends, has 40 paying customers, and cannot answer the question a prospect just asked him in writing: 'where is our client data stored and who can see it?' He knows the honest answer is 'I don't know', and he has no idea who to ask.
r/vibecoding, r/lovable, r/nocode and r/SaaS; the Lovable, Bolt and Replit Discord servers; X threads under viral 'my AI app got hacked' posts; SEO on the 'vibe coding security' long-tail cluster; cold DMs to founders publicly building in public with an AI builder.
You built it with AI. Nobody checked it. Paste your URL — free scan tells you in 60 seconds whether your keys are exposed and your database is open, in English, with the prompt that fixes it.
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