Lovable to production: the blog
Notes from the work we do on real Lovable apps: moving projects off Lovable Cloud to their own Supabase, fixing what the security scan misses, wiring up Stripe, email and custom domains properly, and getting the code into a state a developer can own. Each post covers one problem, what actually causes it and how we fix it, with the error messages and settings you'll run into.
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- Lovable Cloud vs Supabase: what changes when you own the project
- Lovable Cloud to Supabase migration checklist
- Lovable security: what the scan won't catch
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Lovable Cloud and Supabase
- Lovable Cloud: What You Actually Get
- Lovable Supabase: Bring Your Own Project
- Lovable Cloud vs Supabase: Which Should Your App Run On?
- Lovable Cloud to Supabase Migration Checklist
- Migrate Lovable Cloud to Your Own Supabase
- Lovable Cloud Storage Quota: Why You Hit It and What to Do
- Lovable Database: Backups, Limits, Export
- Lovable Pricing and Credits: Where They Go
- Lovable Cloud Pricing: How to Cut the Bill
- How to Reduce Your Lovable Cloud Bill
- How Much Does Lovable Cost Per Month?
- Is Lovable Free? What You Get for $0
- Lovable Promo Code and Student Discount
- Lovable Alternatives: Which One Fits You
- Lovable vs Replit Once You Have Real Users
- Lovable vs Bolt After Your App Has Users
- Lovable vs v0: Where Your Backend Ends Up
- Lovable vs Base44: Who Owns the Backend?
- Lovable vs Claude Code: Which One Fits Your App?
- Lovable vs Bubble: What You Own When You Leave
- Emergent vs Lovable: MongoDB or Postgres?
- Lovable Hosting: What You Get and Pay For
- Lovable on Coolify: Host It on Your Server
- Lovable Export Code and Data: The Gaps
Fixing what Lovable skips
- Lovable API: What It Can and Can't Do
- Lovable MCP: Three Things With One Name
- Lovable Security: What the Scan Won't Catch
- Lovable Stripe Integration: What It Skips
- Lovable Email: Why Your Auth Emails Fail
- Lovable Custom Domain: Setup and Fixes
- Lovable GitHub Sync: Why It Breaks
- Lovable SEO: Why Google Can't Read Your App
- Lovable Analytics: What It Counts, and What It Can't
- Lovable Figma Import: Plugin, MCP or .fig
- Lovable AI Gateway: What It Bills, What Breaks
- Lovable Shopify: Who Owns the Store?
Getting ready for real users
- How to Make a Lovable App Production Ready
- Lovable App Builder: What It Generates in 2026
- Lovable Templates: What a Remix Copies
- Lovable Review: What It's Good and Bad At
- Why Your Lovable Prototype Isn't Ready for Real Users (And How to Fix It)
- What Actually Happens When Your MVP Goes Viral (And How to Not Die)
- The $500 Mistake: Why Skipping Mobile Kills Your Lovable App
All posts, newest first
Lovable Shopify: Who Owns the Store?
Lovable's Shopify integration in November 2026: the sandbox store, the 30-day claim window, the 120-day trial, Shopify's real plan prices, and what it can't do.
Emergent vs Lovable: MongoDB or Postgres?
Emergent vs Lovable in November 2026: plans and credits, FastAPI and MongoDB vs Supabase, publishing costs, mobile apps, and what you can take with you.
Lovable AI Gateway: What It Bills, What Breaks
Lovable's built-in AI in November 2026: a per-project LOVABLE_API_KEY, a 4-credit monthly grant, 429 and 402 errors, and what changes when you leave Cloud.
Lovable Database: Backups, Limits, Export
The Lovable database in November 2026: managed Postgres, daily backups kept about 14 days, no point-in-time restore, a 15 GB export limit, and what never leaves with it.
Lovable Figma Import: Plugin, MCP or .fig
Lovable Figma import in November 2026: the plugin, the Figma MCP and the .fig upload, what each needs, the 100-file and 20 MB limits, and what none of them carry over.
Lovable Analytics: What It Counts, and What It Can't
Lovable's built-in analytics in November 2026: visits, page views, sources and channels with no cookies, the October 26 counting change, and when you need PostHog or GA4.
Lovable vs Bubble: What You Own When You Leave
Lovable vs Bubble in 2026: prices, how each bill grows, mobile apps, and the question nobody asks first: what you can take with you when you leave.
Lovable App Builder: What It Generates in 2026
What the Lovable app builder actually writes in 2026: TanStack Start, React 19, Vite 8, 46 UI components, bun. From a real project we synced to GitHub.
Lovable Promo Code and Student Discount
Is there a Lovable promo code? The one discount Lovable publishes is for students: half off Pro for up to 12 months. The rules, and cheaper ways to pay less.
Lovable Templates: What a Remix Copies
Lovable templates are remixable apps on any plan. A remix copies the code and database structure, not the data, secrets, users or domain. What to fix next.
Lovable MCP: Three Things With One Name
Lovable MCP can mean the MCP server at mcp.lovable.dev, chat connectors, or your app as an MCP server. What each does, what it costs, and the risks.
Lovable vs Claude Code: Which One Fits Your App?
Lovable vs Claude Code in October 2026: what each one does, $25 credits vs a $20 plan with limits, who hosts the app, and how to use both on one repo.
Lovable vs Base44: Who Owns the Backend?
Lovable vs Base44 in October 2026: plans and credits, Supabase vs Base44's own backend, GitHub export, and what Base44's Lovable importer leaves behind.
Lovable vs v0: Where Your Backend Ends Up
Lovable vs v0 in October 2026: credits vs tokens, Lovable Cloud vs v0's Vercel Marketplace databases, GitHub, and which one leaves you owning your app.
Lovable vs Bolt After Your App Has Users
Lovable vs Bolt in October 2026: prices, credits vs tokens, databases, mobile apps, and what really moves when you switch an app that already has users.
Lovable Review: What It's Good and Bad At
A Lovable review from the people who fix Lovable apps for a living: where it's great, where it breaks, what it costs in October 2026, and who should use it.
Migrate Lovable Cloud to Your Own Supabase
Migrate a Lovable Cloud app to your own Supabase project in 2026: the official export, the five stages, what Lovable's docs leave out, and how long it takes.
How to Reduce Your Lovable Cloud Bill
Cut Lovable Cloud costs in order of impact: find the biggest Usage category, pause or right-size the instance, clean up storage and jobs, and cap run credits.
How to Make a Lovable App Production Ready
What production ready means for a Lovable app in October 2026: the Deep scan, RLS tested with two accounts, backups, email limits and the domain.
Lovable on Coolify: Host It on Your Server
How to self-host a Lovable app on your own server with Coolify: the build settings, the SPA fix, what it costs, and what still runs on Lovable Cloud.
Lovable Cloud Pricing: How to Cut the Bill
Lovable Cloud pricing is paid in run credits. Where the Usage view shows the money going, and the five fixes that cut a Cloud bill, in order. October 2026.
Lovable vs Replit Once You Have Real Users
Lovable vs Replit for founders: how each one builds, hosts and bills, where each breaks, and which to pick for the app you actually have.
Lovable Hosting: What You Get and Pay For
Can you host a website on Lovable? What publishing gives you, what costs credits, the limits, and how to host a Lovable app elsewhere without breaking it.
Lovable Alternatives: Which One Fits You
Lovable alternatives compared by the reason you're leaving: credits, a backend you can't open, wanting the code, or a mobile app. Prices checked October 2026.
Is Lovable Free? What You Get for $0
Is Lovable free? Yes, with limits: 30 build credits a month, a lovable.app address and no code editing. What the Free plan covers in October 2026.
How Much Does Lovable Cost Per Month?
Lovable cost for a real app: the plan, the run credits your live app burns, and the bills outside Lovable. Three example monthly bills, October 2026.
Lovable API: What It Can and Can't Do
The Lovable API publishes, embeds and reports on projects, but it can't build or edit them. What it covers, what it costs, and when you need MCP.
Lovable Supabase: Bring Your Own Project
How Lovable's Supabase integration works with a project you own: the two-step connect, what Lovable runs for you, and the parts that quietly stay on Cloud.
Lovable Cloud: What You Actually Get
What Lovable Cloud is under the hood: the database, auth, storage and edge functions you get, what it bills in credits, and what its export leaves out.
Lovable Pricing and Credits: Where They Go
Lovable pricing explained: $25 for 100 credits, what a message costs, why Cloud now spends the same credits, and what pauses when you hit zero.
Lovable GitHub Sync: Why It Breaks
Lovable GitHub sync not working? One synced branch, the 'GitHub is ahead' stall, the lovable-fallback branch, and why a reconnect makes a new repo.
Lovable Email: Why Your Auth Emails Fail
Lovable verification emails not arriving? The 2-per-hour Supabase limit, Lovable Cloud's email domains, links pointing to localhost, and spam fixes.
Lovable Custom Domain: Setup and Fixes
Connecting a custom domain to Lovable: the A and TXT records, Cloudflare, CAA, why it sits on Verifying, and the SEO bits Lovable leaves to you.
Lovable Export Code and Data: The Gaps
How to export code from Lovable (Git sync or a zip) and your data (Cloud Export), and the pieces neither one gives you.
Lovable Stripe Integration: What It Skips
Lovable's Stripe integration takes payments in minutes. It skips webhooks and matches subscribers by email. What breaks, and what to fix before launch.
Lovable Security: What the Scan Won't Catch
Lovable security scans catch missing RLS and leaked keys. They don't catch policies that are wrong. The holes we still find in apps that passed.
Lovable SEO: Why Google Can't Read Your App
Lovable SEO problems come from client-side rendering: one title for every page, empty link previews, soft 404s. What breaks and how we fix it.
Lovable Cloud to Supabase Migration Checklist
Moving from Lovable Cloud to your own Supabase: what moves with the schema, the three things that break after the switch, and a free checker.
Lovable Cloud vs Supabase: Which Should Your App Run On?
Lovable Cloud is a Supabase project Lovable runs for you: no dashboard, no connection string, Lovable bills it. When to stay and when to move.
Lovable Cloud Storage Quota: Why You Hit It and What to Do
Hit the Lovable Cloud storage quota? Where the space goes, what to clean up first, and when your own Supabase project is the cheaper fix.
What Actually Happens When Your MVP Goes Viral (And How to Not Die)
Traffic spikes expose every shortcut you took building your MVP. Here's what breaks first, why it breaks, and how to prepare before it happens.
The $500 Mistake: Why Skipping Mobile Kills Your Lovable App
Most Lovable apps look broken on phones. Here's why ignoring mobile costs you real users and revenue, and when a native app wrapper actually makes sense.
Why Your Lovable Prototype Isn't Ready for Real Users (And How to Fix It)
What we find in the first hour of auditing a Lovable prototype: open RLS policies, the 1,000-row cap, unprotected edge functions, no error tracking.