Architecture & Folder Refactor
We re-organise the project around clear domains and layers — controllers, services, repositories, jobs. New devs onboard in days, not months.
AI wrote the first 80%. Now it crashes under real users, the database can't scale, and nobody — not even the original developer — can read the code. Triple Minds is the Vibe Coding Cleanup Company startups call when shipping fast catches up with them. We turn AI-generated and rushed codebases into production-grade systems that survive traffic, audits, and the next investor review.
/api/users/:id — string-concat query, unfiltered input.
Same JWT verify copied across 14 routes. One source-of-truth needed.
Listing endpoint dropped from 4.2s → 180ms after eager-loading.
Trusted by founders cleaning up vibe-coded products
Vibe coding ships an MVP in a weekend. It rarely ships software that survives the second month. Here's what we find in almost every codebase founders bring us.
No clear separation of concerns. utils/ with 80 files. Components living next to migrations. Nothing is findable.
The same auth check, validation, or formatter copy-pasted across 10+ files. Change one — break nine.
No indexes. Wrong data types. JSON blobs where relations belong. Reads slow exponentially as data grows.
Hardcoded keys, missing input validation, exposed admin routes, no rate limiting. One scan and it's game over.
N+1 queries, unbounded loops, no caching, render-blocking assets. Feels fine at 10 users — dies at 1,000.
No versioning. REST and ad-hoc endpoints mixed. Inconsistent response shapes. Frontend pays the tax forever.
userId in one file, user_id in another, uid in a third. New devs spend weeks just decoding intent.
Monolith with global state, in-memory sessions, no queue. Vertical-only. The first viral moment is the last.
No README. No API docs. No env example. The "how it runs" lives only in the original developer's head — and they've moved on.
Manual SSH deploys. No CI. Production = laptop. Logs lost on restart. Outages caught only when customers tweet.
These are the four founder stories we hear every single week. If you recognise yours below, the rest of this page is for you.
Shipped in 6 weeks with an AI co-pilot. Got first paying users. Now feature work takes 4× longer than it should, the team is scared to touch anything, and the next round of investors is asking technical questions you can't answer.
MVP → ProductionYou raced a competitor to market and won. The product works — but the OpenAI calls aren't cached, prompts are duplicated everywhere, the rate-limiting is "we'll add it later", and your bill is climbing faster than your MRR.
AI SaaS HardeningWorked great with 100 users. A press hit, an ads campaign, or a viral post pushed you to 10,000 — and the homepage timed out. The DB is the bottleneck. Or maybe the API. Or both. You can't tell because there's no monitoring.
Scale & ReliabilityYou bought or built a clone of a well-known product. It works. But the code is a tangle, payments fail in edge cases, the admin panel is barely usable, and you need it audit-ready for a B2B contract that ships next quarter.
Clone → EnterpriseGet a free 30-minute code audit. We'll tell you exactly what's broken, what's salvageable, and what it'll cost to fix.
Every cleanup engagement is scoped to your code. These are the ten cleanup tracks we pull from — most projects need four to seven of them.
We re-organise the project around clear domains and layers — controllers, services, repositories, jobs. New devs onboard in days, not months.
We extract repeated auth, validation, and business rules into single sources of truth. One change updates everything that should have been one thing all along.
Schema review, normalisation, indexes, foreign keys, type fixes. Zero-downtime migrations. Reads stop getting slower as you grow.
OWASP-grade audit. We patch SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, IDOR, hardcoded secrets, missing rate limits, exposed admin endpoints.
N+1 fixes, caching layer, query optimisation, frontend bundle slimming, image & asset pipeline. Real measured wins, not vibes.
Consistent REST or GraphQL contracts, versioning, error shapes, OpenAPI docs. Frontend stops fighting the backend.
Project-wide rename to a single convention. ESLint / Prettier / Black config locked. New PRs auto-format. The codebase stops feeling like five different developers.
Stateless services, queues, background workers, read replicas, CDN, multi-region readiness. From "1k users dies" to "1M users yawns".
README, env example, architecture diagram, ADRs, runbooks, API docs. Future-you stops paying onboarding tax forever.
Dockerised builds, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, staged deploys, Sentry, Grafana, log aggregation. You see incidents before customers do.
We don't do "rewrite it all" theatrics. We follow a measurable, sprint-based playbook that a Vibe Coding Coder built carelessly — and a Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialist undoes deliberately.
You share access. We listen, look around, and qualify the engagement. No NDAs to lose your time on — we sign whatever you need.
We run static analysis, security scanners, performance probes, schema reviews. You get a written report with severity, effort, and ROI per finding.
A prioritised plan: critical security & data risk first, then performance, then DX. Fixed-price quote per phase. You approve only what you want.
1–2 week sprints with daily updates. Every change is in a PR. Every PR has tests. Nothing merges without your sign-off if you want it that way.
Zero-downtime DB migrations, blue/green deploys, load testing on staging. We prove the fix is real with numbers, not promises.
CI/CD live. Monitoring & alerts wired up. Architecture diagram, runbooks, README, API docs. Your team owns it cleanly when we leave.
AI-generated code spans every modern framework. Our Vibe Coding Cleanup Developers work fluently across all of these.
Fixed-price quote within 24 hours. NDA on request. No commitment until you say go.
Most agencies will tell you to throw the codebase away and start over — because a rewrite bills more. Here’s the actual math, side by side.
| Recommended Cleanup with Triple Minds | Full Rebuild | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | $4K – $8K | $40K – $150K+ |
| Time to live | 10 – 25 days maximum | 4 – 9 months |
| Existing customers | Stay on the live product | Frozen on legacy or churn |
| Live data & history | Preserved (zero-downtime migration) | Re-imported, often partial |
| Business logic bugs | Already fixed — we keep them fixed | Re-introduced from scratch |
| Risk of regression | Low (PR-level changes, full tests) | High (entire surface re-implemented) |
| Investor narrative | “We hardened it” | “We started over” — red flag |
| Team morale | Familiar codebase, faster shipping | 6 months of catch-up + low velocity |
| Engineering ownership | You own the cleaned-up code | You own a brand-new black box |
| When it makes sense | ~92% of vibe-coded projects | Only when the stack itself is wrong |
Numbers based on Triple Minds engagements 2024–2026. A rewrite still wins in narrow cases (broken framework choice, fundamental architecture mismatch). The audit tells you which camp you’re in — in 5 days, for $499.
Real numbers from recent engagements (NDA-friendly aggregates). Your mileage will be your mileage — but this is the shape of the win.
Three transparent tiers. Each one starts with the audit so you only pay for cleanup you actually need.
For founders who need to know what's actually broken before committing.
For MVPs & AI SaaS that work today but won't survive growth.
For marketplaces, clones & products preparing for B2B/audit-grade clients.
Most agencies want to throw your code away and rebuild — because rebuilds bill more. We bill less and ship faster, because cleanup is what we actually specialise in.
We salvage what works and fix what doesn't. 92% of our engagements avoid a full rewrite. You keep your velocity, your data, and your sanity.
Our team has cleaned up output from Cursor, Copilot, v0, Bolt, Lovable, Claude, and ChatGPT. We know exactly where each tool cuts corners — and how to fix them.
No hourly billing roulette. You see scope, price, and timeline up front. Each sprint ships a measurable improvement you can verify before the next one starts.
OWASP-grade audit. SOC2-friendly patterns. PII handling, audit logs, access control — built in, not bolted on. Helps you close enterprise contracts.
We prove fixes with load tests, query plans, and Sentry dashboards. You don't take our word for it — you watch the graphs flatten.
Code, infra, secrets, docs — all yours from day one. No platform lock-in. No "managed hosting" handcuffs. Hand off to your in-house team whenever you want.
Cleanup is not just an engineering job — it’s a business decision with technical consequences. Our senior consultants partner on every engagement so the fix actually translates into faster shipping and visible growth.
Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialist
Code Architecture Audits · Performance Engineering · Database Optimisation · API Design · Production Hardening
Has audited and cleaned up 40+ AI-built and rushed codebases across SaaS, marketplaces and clone apps. Specialises in turning fragile MVPs into systems that survive real traffic — query optimisation, caching strategy, and the architecture decisions that don't show up in the demo but break under a thousand concurrent users.
View profileVibe Coding Cleanup Specialist
Cleanup Engagement Lead · SaaS Hardening · Product Strategy · Investor-Ready Architecture · Fixed-Price Delivery
Triple Minds founder. Leads vibe-coding cleanup engagements end-to-end — from the first 30-minute audit call to the final handover. Has helped founders take vibe-coded MVPs from "we got lucky" to investor-ready in 2–4 weeks. Pragmatic, fixed-price, no rebuild unless you genuinely have to.
View profilePlus a 12-engineer cleanup squad (full-stack, DevOps, security, QA) sized to your project.
Triple Minds takes vibe-coded products from "we got lucky" to "we're production". Talk to a Vibe Coding Cleanup Specialist now.
Aggregated, NDA-friendly snapshots of recent engagements.
Founder shipped an AI writing tool in 5 weeks with Cursor. We added prompt caching, request deduplication, model routing (Haiku for cheap, Sonnet for hard), and streaming. Costs dropped 84%. P95 latency dropped 3.2× as a side effect.
Bolt-built marketplace for niche B2B. We re-architected with Postgres read replicas, Redis caching, BullMQ for emails, and CDN for media. Added k6 load tests in CI so the next viral moment is not a fire drill.
Founder bought a Candy AI / DreamGF-style clone. We rewrote the payment flow (zero failed renewals since), added per-tenant data isolation, hardened content moderation, and shipped SSO. Closed three enterprise customers within 3 months of relaunch.
Send us your repo. In 48 hours we'll tell you exactly what to fix, in what order, and at what fixed price. No commitment. No sales pressure. Just answers.