AI AND SOFTWARE
Lovable
Shipping web apps
This site and most client one-pagers start here — prompt to deployed app.
- Pricing
- Free tier to try it; paid plans start around $25/month for the message credits most side projects need. Hosting and a lovable.app subdomain are included, custom domains on paid plans.
- Best for
- Builders who can describe a product clearly and want it live the same day — landing pages, client one-pagers, internal tools and MVPs with a real database behind them.
This site is built with Lovable, and so are most of the one-pagers I ship for clients. It turns a written brief into a working, deployed React app, and then lets you keep editing it by talking to it.
Why I use it
Speed with an escape hatch. The first version of a landing page exists ten minutes after the brief, and because the output is a normal codebase, nothing is locked in — I can open the repo and write the tricky parts by hand.
How I use it
I write the brief like a spec: audience, tone, colour tokens, fonts, the exact sections and the copy facts it is allowed to use. Then I let it build, review, and iterate in small named changes. Backend work — tables, access rules, forms — goes through the same chat, which keeps the whole thing in one place.
What it costs
Free to try. The entry paid plan covers a steady side-project pace; heavier weeks cost more, so planning before prompting is the cheapest optimisation available.
Who it is for
Founders validating an idea, freelancers who want to stop hand-coding marketing sites, and developers who would rather spend their time on the 20% that is actually hard.
What works
- + Prompt to deployed app with hosting, auth and a database wired up
- + Full code access — it is a real React codebase you can export to GitHub
- + Edits are conversational, so small changes do not need a dev session
- + Good at design systems if you give it tokens and rules up front
What doesn’t
- − Vague prompts produce generic output — you have to know what you want
- − Complex bespoke logic still needs someone who reads the code
- − Credits go fast when you iterate on visuals rather than plan them
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