Audit before you commit
Within 48 hours of access you get a written report and one fixed price. You decide with real information, not a vague hourly estimate on unreviewed code.
Vibe coding rescue · Replit
Hire senior engineers to fix your Replit app.
You do not need a full-time developer to rescue a Replit app, you need senior engineers for a fixed, finite job. Hephon audits what the AI built within 48 hours, gives you one fixed price to finish and harden it, and hands back a documented app in your own repo and accounts. Most rescues take two to four weeks.
Hiring for a stalled vibe-coded app is its own trap. Freelancers quote by the hour on a codebase nobody has reviewed, so the number balloons; a full-time hire is months of overhead for what is really a few weeks of work. Both leave you managing a stranger through a codebase you cannot read.
We are built for exactly this: a fixed-scope rescue by engineers who ship production systems for a living. You get a written audit before committing a cent, one price for the whole job, milestone payments, and 30 days of fixes after launch. Your repo, your accounts, your keys, your customers, documented and handed back.
How we fix it.
Senior engineers, not a marketplace
People who ship and operate production systems review every line the AI wrote, the review that never happened is the whole value.
You keep everything
We work inside your repo and accounts and hand over documented. No lock-in, no hostage code, no dependency on us afterwards unless you want it.
Specific to Replit
What usually needs attention in Replit apps.
Sleepy infrastructure
The app cold-starts, slows under load, or shares resources with the dev environment. Fine for a demo, painful the day a customer hits it.
Loose secrets
Keys in code, in prompts, or in env files that got committed. We inventory every secret, move them to proper management, and rotate the exposed ones.
Agent spaghetti
Replit Agent iterates fast and leaves layers of half-replaced logic behind. We flatten it into one coherent codebase your next developer can read.
How a rescue works.
Fixed price, milestone payments, and a written audit before you commit to anything.
Audit, 48 hours
Send repo or tool access. You get a plain-language report of what is solid, what is dangerous, what is unfinished, and a fixed price for the rest.
Fix and harden
Security first: auth, data access, secrets, rate limits, payments. The invisible work that keeps your launch out of the news for the wrong reason.
Finish and launch
The stalled features get built, the deploy pipeline gets set up, and the app goes live on your domain with monitoring, alerts, and daily backups.
Stay if you want
Every rescue includes 30 days of fixes. Many founders keep us on afterwards for the roadmap, through Resident™, our monthly retainer.
Questions
Should I hire a freelancer or an agency to fix my Replit app?
For a stalled Replit app, scope and accountability matter more than headcount. A freelancer builds tasks by the hour on unreviewed code; we deliver a launched, hardened product at one fixed price agreed upfront, with milestone payments and 30 days of post-launch fixes.
How much does it cost to hire someone to fix a Replit app?
It depends on how far the app got and how much is left, which is exactly what the 48-hour audit answers. You get one fixed price for the whole job before committing, and you never pay everything upfront: 30% on signature, the rest on milestones.
Do I keep control of the code and accounts?
Completely. Everything stays in your Replit workspace, your repo, and your accounts from day one. We sign an NDA before looking at anything, and the handover includes documentation your next developer, or your own AI tool, can work from.
Send us your Replit project.
Book a 30-minute call with a founder. Within 48 hours of access you will know what is solid, what is dangerous, and what it costs to launch.
