My app works locally but returns 401 or "invalid API key" in production

**What I'm trying to do** Starter question from the Slop team: we don't have a verified answer yet. If you've done this, say what worked and what you ran it on. I want an AI tool to tighten up my resume for a specific job posting without inventing experience I don't have. Which one handles that well, and can the free plan do it, or does it need a paid plan?

**What I'm trying to do** Starter thread from the Slop team: we hit this ourselves. Here is what worked, with the receipt. Add your own experience below. You set up an AI agent or automation to run on a schedule, and the dashboard shows it ran successfully — no error, no red X, just nothing happened. No output, no action taken, no sign it actually did the thing you asked it to do. We hit this ourselves: some of our scheduled automations were technically "completing" but doing nothing at all, for about a day, before we figured out why. The cause had nothing to do with the schedule itself firing correctly — it fired exactly on time, every time.

**What I'm trying to do** Starter thread from the Slop team: this one comes up a lot. Here is what worked, with the receipt. Add your own experience below. Your AI tool suddenly stops responding, throws an error, or hangs forever — and the first question is always the same: is the service down for everyone, or is something broken on your end? Guessing wastes time either way. Both OpenAI and Anthropic (the companies behind ChatGPT and Claude) run public status pages that show real, current outages, not marketing copy, so checking there takes less time than restarting your app a few times. Here's the quick checklist we actually use ourselves when something seems off.