User Experiences with Lovable, Bolt, and AI Coding Tools

Loveable and Replit. Good over all. From a non-technical background there are still gaps to total satisfaction/usability but it's a minimum a fantastic inspiration resource.

Agreed here, I think lovable and replied are great for mockups but a deployable and scalable product I don’t recommend. It’s a nightmare updating and adding features. Personally I use replit for my mockup/ demo’s and then goto cursor (requires more technical knowledge) and I leverage codex heavily to assist and between both it been very valuable

Are yall using this for actual production products or more for internal tools?

I've heard the same thing re:switch to cursor. I.e. lovable is good for prototypes/mock-ups, then cursor + other tools for rounding out the edges

For an early MVP product cursor is great, for a real scalable product its not. It's also relatively easily to get credits as a startup with an mvp product with AWS, Azure, or GCP and you can pretty much leverage those credits to pay for devs in their partner system to build out your actual product correctly

you're the man, thank you!

I’m using Loveable now, it’s good if you have Zero code experience, especially with the Supabase. You can burn through credits really fast. Top tips: Use ChatGPT as your Loveable advisor. It’s almost a copy/paste between them. ChatGPT will confirm some of Loveable decisions but I’ve found has made suggestions Loveable hasn’t considered. When building, focus on the most important thing your app needs to do first. Easy to spend time on signup flow, Loveable will create unnecessary dashboards, etc.

Heather S. Honesnlty a waste of my time ahah

yes i have, my webapp UI was built on lovable. The UI features/aesthetic has worsened lately (I built mine on an earlier version) - I hope they fix it! I have used Replit also - a decent tool. For both, ultimately to make something work and take it to market you need an engineer/team. I took my lovable UI to an engineer team in India i have and having them build it out (cannot be done by me a non technical person alone).

As Himat G. shared, it does ultimately need an actual dev to look at it before making it a real product. Along with the support to maintain and continue to make improvements based on user feedback. We're not quite at the [concept to a reliable product] level in vibe coding (yet). We're even further away the more complex the concept is, or the product gets.