Proof, not claims
Real projects, taken apart.
Every teardown is a system I have actually worked on or reviewed. What was claimed, what was found, what it would have cost the founder — and the question that would have surfaced it earlier.
Details anonymized; patterns are real. No client, product or hostname is identifiable here.
7 days, 4.26M requests, 3,650 real visitors.
One live application, one week of traffic. Almost none of it was people. This is what the internet actually sends at your app the moment it has a public address.
Read the teardown4.26M
requests in 7 days
3,650
real human visitors
99.9%
of traffic was not human
The feature was “ready to ship.” Four rounds of NO-GO followed.
A payout feature passed the team’s own testing. An independent adversarial review rejected it four separate times — and each rejection found a different class of failure.
Read the teardown4
rounds of NO-GO
51→76
automated tests
2
P0 findings in round one
Would your project survive this kind of review?
Seven scenarios drawn from the same work. Five minutes, and you will know which of these patterns you are currently exposed to.
Fixed scope · Independent review · No rebuild pitch