Lovable

I used a combination of Lovsble, Codex, ChstGPT and codemagic and have published two apps from Lovable so far.

keep shopify as the backend and just hit their storefront api from lovable. trying to rebuild carts, checkout, and inventory tracking yourself is a massive headache when shopify's headless setup handles all of it out of the box.

So I always say Lovable for development/testing only. Code on Github. Selfhost on a vps for launch if you know how or Vercel/Supabase Cloud if you dont.

Therein lies the problem as Lovable has written an auth loop into my code before too. Also Lovable loves writing very inefficient supabase queries to do with Auth stuff. However, you won't know that unless you use Supabase cloud/selfhost - the Supabase advisor says how badly they perform but Lovable cloud doesn't have that feature.

Most people don't know about the usage/hosting charges as accounts have a certain amount free. I had a site with a few hundred rows in a db but it was performing like I was querying a couple of hundred thousand all because of those bad queries. Also the three days of test only traffic was eating 3 credits a day so anything after launch was going to be horrific.

I had a site with a few hundred rows in a db but it was performing like I was querying a couple of hundred thousand all because of those bad queries.

I'm just saying it so people don't consider Lovable as more than a development platform. Too many posts on here where they reach the find out phase (costs/migration pain/Lovable ToS/whatever).

Lovable hosting is not free and if you scale in any way it will wreck you in costs.

Also, Vercel free tier prohibits commercial use, which rarely is an issue as most projects have to pay the $20 subscription due to practical limits.

But you can't say Vercel has the same offering as Lovable compared to cyber security and ease of us.

But you can't say Vercel has the same offering as Lovable compared to cyber security and ease of us. Basically everything that a non technical person needs.

They should pay $500 on Lovable as its a small cost to what the opportunity cost would be developing a "scalable" solution 😆 Another exaggerated example sure

My advice is for non-technical people using lovable with the plan to sell apps or release paid services to immediately start gaining the knowledge of what lovable is doing and what they should do with the code to host it properly.

All the data I keep it in BigQuery and avoid using Lovable Cloud, because credits burn now after the changed it.

I don’t get why everyone hates on Lovable for hosting tbh. Granted, the apps I’ve built for businesses tend to max out at about 60 concurrent users each, so hardly load, but I’ve never really had an issue?

If you use Chrome extensions that abuse the Lovable credit system to bypass what you usually pay for, this is breaking the terms of service of Lovable. You risk your workspace being removed indefinitely, along with all the projects that were remixed in the workspace, and that originated in the workspace. Further, Chrome extensions like these usually track every message you send and try to fish for API keys, credentials, and personal information. If you utilize extensions, your account and workspaces will be compromised.

And no one with any sense would pay anyone $799 for a vibe-coded AI crap website.

Lovable is really convenient as a cloud service, especially when you have a lot of small or medium-sized projects

DON'T host it on lovable!!! This is where you need to start learning more about web development. Especially around properly hosting websites. Lovable will get you in some serious jams if there's high traffic or resources used. You can't afford for a paid site to go down. Best thing to do is host it on their current platform or find a proper web host or vps or cloud for them to host on and don't take on hosting responsibility.

It can deploy your code to Cloudflare (free) as well as to Supabase (free), while committing all of the code to Github.

This is something lovable is better at.

although there are better hosting platforms to use (Vercel for example) than Lovable since they are optimizing toward different customers

I spend 1500+ credits to explore it (about 400 euro for one month), so I satisfied, but I wanted to find cheaper way to develop instead.

the frontend export is usually easy since it's just standard react

but dealing with the supabase side is where it gets annoying. untangling generated rls policies and getting all the edge functions running cleanly in your own environment usually takes the most manual cleanup.

zero control

they are effectively re-selling tokens at a very high markup

Lovable like tools can be a good start for someone who has zero technical knowledge

But its not 100% working. If you do changes with chatgpt and then publish but after that if you changes with lovable it will break the design or code.

It's also really easy to start with an architecture that makes future changes really hard. When you look at the code there's duplicated logic everywhere so the longer you build the worse it gets.

It’s all a hidden credit sink as the transparency from them is gross

lovable is just giving you access to cheaper models for a higher price and providing alot less value to you as a consumer

What shit, stop using lovable, damn it Claude code is now equal and better via web via desktop or via cli and with superior abilities

Every time a user goes through the site, it's this problem or that problem. Almost like for every bug or problem that is fixed, another one is created.

it's good for small scale projects, but you shouldn't use it for large scale projects.

Yup, it now seems to have gone X 3 credits. I'm bowing out over next few months, it's been fun.

no hate for lovable, its just that i dont like to depend on single application for complete development

using lovable for frontend is good

canceling the Lovable sub helped a lot

Never understood the need for something like lovable when I can just use Claude code or antigravity to build what I need and host it on vercel or something similar.

I first started Travi, I did it on Lovable, quickly hit a wall in terms of functionality

both are an hour to fix, and both are invisible from inside the lovable editor.

the scary technical one is supabase tables readable with the public anon key, found 6 of those across the same batch. both are an hour to fix, and both are invisible from inside the lovable editor.

The important thing is your hosting platform for the website ahead of time so it's not hosted on lovable if you ever want to move off of it

you can stop paying for lovable and use the 5 free credits for small daily changes

I think using these intensively has really helped with my confidence level re the basic stack I'm using.

I know there is a lovable feature that can monitor your apps but there is a cost and I need to get some more paying customers first.

Now I think Lovable is only decent for people who really know NOTHING about IT, I think there's still a market, just less.

sometimes it uses all daily tokens just to even read file … before even making any changes

Getting another customer's response is a very very serious security issue from my point of view