Neither description tells you which one protects your runway — and the difference between choosing correctly and choosing quickly can cost more than the gap between the rates.

A user loads their dashboard and sees someone else's name, email, and records — not because of a sophisticated attack, but because one default setting was never changed.

Your production database now holds fifty thousand — and without an index, every query reads every single one of them.

A Stripe payment notification — a real charge from a real user.

Functional correctness and security are separate properties — an app can pass every demo scenario and still carry exploitable gaps in authentication, data handling, or secrets management.

A zip lands on your desktop, and for a beat it feels like ownership — the thing you built is finally yours, portable, real.