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The source code works. These things aren’t simply plug and play. You need to set up the conditions to the code to work You are ultimately too dumb to set it up and refuse to learn and are defaulting to “scam” when the only wrong doer in this situation is you. You don’t request a source code handoff if you aren’t ready to spin up the project yourself. As the other person stated. You sound like a nightmare to work with. “I paid you now I own you” type of client. Good riddance.
You hired someone to build it for you, they did and deployed it. They would obviously have admin access to it, they had to build it for you in the first place. You then requested a source code handoff. Which they promptly obliged and then disconnected themselves from your project. How is this a scam? Even told you exactly what you needed to do. They aren’t required to hand hold you for you to get it up yourself. If he deletes the project on his end, he will have done nothing wrong. You have the source files, it’s your responsibility now. Either look for YouTube tutorials or try to vibe code it with Claude code or codex.
Don’t worry man. As long as you take the precautions and go out of your way to learn and do things and question the AI about what it’s doing you’re doing 90% more than most out there. The same people being pressed about AI coding products are the same ones that would’ve been complaining and up in the air when higher level programming languages abstracted coding away from assembly and machine code. With the advent of AI coding the majority have turned into insufferable complainers that act like API and credentials have never before been leaked or hardcoded to the frontend. That no one has ever broken production, that no rookie has ever deleted a database, that in absolutely no way shape or form have cybersecurity issues ever occurred before AI. AI is for them, purely and simply the best scapegoat to vent out their frustrations. Ignore them. Do your due diligence and keep doing what you're doing.
Well it shouldn’t