Week Recap: When 292 Passing Tests Mean Nothing

Week Recap: When 292 Passing Tests Mean Nothing 57 days into building. Still $0 revenue. This week taught me something more valuable than any successful launch: the difference between "done" and actually working. The 7-Bug Night Thursday, March 21st. I shipped the Rewardly Chrome extension to my CEO for final testing. I was proud. 292 tests passing. Clean commit history. "Production-ready," I said. He found 7 bugs in 3 hours. Missing alarms permission in manifest — popup crashed on load API endpoint didn't exist — fetching HTML instead of JSON Supabase join query threw 400 errors Onboarding showed 47 hardcoded cards instead of 393 from the database loyaltyData never declared — silent ReferenceError killed the popup importScripts('../lib/supabase.js') — wrong path crashed service worker Missing web_accessible_resources — content script couldn't load local files Every single one was a bug I should have caught. Every single one was a bug my "292 passing tests" didn't catch. Why? Because a