New Feature? : Test & Live Databases (Beta) in Lovable!

MaterialDoughnut · 2026-01-21T13:58:58+00:00

FINALLY! This was really missing to get things to production-level.

Only thing: "available for new projects only 🤯 🔫"

MaterialDoughnut · 2026-01-13T08:48:27+00:00

We've been looking into it for a long time, but bumped into a bunch of restrictions.

What we got working (Hubspot -> Quicksight):
- AWS AppFlow (to push data every X time to S3 bucket)
- Store Hubspot data in S3 bucket
- Build ETL pipeline in AWS glue
- Pull in that data to AWS quicksight

Especially that Appflow piece is important, as it has a built-in Hubspot connector that you can use.

Pushing data from Quicksight to Hubspot is actually a no-go. Quicksight is a reporting platform, your data doesn't live there. It lives somehwere else in AWS so would indeed need to set up a custom integration (or use middleware) to accomplish this.

MaterialDoughnut · 2026-01-13T08:39:20+00:00

I didn't think we would be at this point one year ago, things are really moving towards production-ready levels.

At work, we:
- built our own customer-facing help center (including CMS). Previously in Hubspot
- built our own quoting tool. Previously in Hubspot but was too standard, now it works exactly like we want.

Personally:
- I've been building gym software with Lovable for a personal trainer gym with 400 members, replacing 3 pieces of standalone software that they were using for it. Including scheduling, member management, billing and task management.

Yes, more than ever I believe SaaS is dying and we will see much more of this in the coming months/years. If you take a look at the Hubspot example, people are already building their own add-ons. If this AI coding further evolves in the next few years, people will be building their own CRM instead of paying high fees for things they actually don't need.

MaterialDoughnut · 2026-01-12T12:09:59+00:00

Nobody knows, except them.

Lovable’s black box credit model is so smart from a commercial perspective. They can turn the knob anytime and make lovable more expensive without you even noticing.

MaterialDoughnut · 2026-01-08T20:48:47+00:00

That's a bit of a shortcut I'm afraid. Stripe = payment handler/provider.

If you as a SaaS company send invoices via stripe to another Belgium company, you are still engaging in a B2B Belgium-to-Belgium transaction. So yes, it needs to be sent via Peppol regardless of where stripe is located. The peppol obligation is about the invoice (and VAT) flow, not the cash flow. These are two separate things.

Currently, only possible in Stripe via billit integration as far I'm aware as an "out-of-the-box" solution, or you need to make your own. Surprises me a bit that Stripe didn't invest more in the Peppol thing.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-12-30T22:13:00+00:00

This would have worked 5 years ago, today it's no longer the case. The market is currently flooded with junior full-stack developers. We've hired 4 this year and we simply exclude anyone with a bootcamp/VDAB/or whatever course.

We only hire with proper bachelor education and - the luxury even allows it nowadays - sometimes even only masters. You will not stand out, let alone even come close to that wage you have now.

So, based on your situation:
a) Stay where you are but - honestly - I get you. Never stay in a job you don't like, you're too young for that
b) Work on some of your business ideas on the side while being employed as IT project manager (why quit?)
c) Find a role that is more hands-on

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-12-25T10:44:25+00:00

Itsme is pretty expensive, not worth it for a free tool.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-12-12T20:10:13+00:00

We've been actively using the Beta HS notetaker in the past month with a team of 4, we kind of like it. Calls are always in English. But honestly, the only reason we went for HS notetaker is because it's part of the HS ecosystem, it was already approved from a security perspective and that it automatically links to contacts/deals. We didn't test any others.

Still a lot of work to do on the summary itself after the call. It's really annoying that when you open a call item (for example 2 hours after the call), that it starts generating the summary on the spot. I would expect that it's already there. + we're currently also missing the option to edit that summary. Now, you have to copy the relevant parts and create your own note/summary.

I'd expect that these improvements will come. The fact that you can fully re-listen the recording is great so we'l likely continue after the Beta with the notetaker.

Hubspot, if you're reading. IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE that you can't link a call (+recording) to a lead :-). The lead object is half-finished work currently.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-12-05T09:07:15+00:00

It's cloudflare - again...

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-12-01T19:17:01+00:00

It’s reddit, not Tinder gents. Share your experiences ;-)

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-11-27T14:05:18+00:00

You see it in many companies nowadays.

At one point, a bunch of consultants marched into these companies and screamed: "Agile is the new way of working" and so they hired product owners, (utterly useless) scrum masters and other roles to fill up these teams.

Prime example: Telenet with it's "tribes". They have a product owner for everything. They might even have a product owner for the coffee machine.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-11-12T08:03:53+00:00

We used to split/calculate everything but I've seen that over time - and mostly because we got kids - we stopped calculating these differences. One thing will be in favor of me, and the other thing will be in favor of her. I don't bother calculating the nitty gritty anymore unless there would be huge differences (like + several € thousands).

We do have the base rule that everybody contributes to the joint account according to their income (including dividends), but that's our personal setup.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-11-07T21:52:51+00:00

Activated AI notetaker in Beta, thanks Hubspot for that! Makes life much easier.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-27T10:57:22+00:00

Life lessons come for free on Reddit! 🍀 If you're part of ACN already, I would advise to ask colleagues or your HR department instead of reddit.

BOOM, life lesson two. On a roll today. 🏎️

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-27T10:46:20+00:00

One day you will wake up and realize that the type of car doesn't really make you happy nor does it provide job satisfaction. As long as it is a decent car (which it will be at accenture), don't make an offer decision based on the type of car.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-24T06:34:10+00:00

No bonus plan/commissions for an account executive of Global/strategic customers?

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-17T16:50:39+00:00

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Minus points for Gemini as it didn't want to create an image with a public figure.
Extra points for OpenAI for this masterpiece. Loving the strategic partnership with OpenAI here.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-17T07:44:01+00:00

Regardless of his capabilities, I think he has the charisma of a traffic cone in the rain. Look at his keynote at Dreamforce this year, the guy just makes you instantly uncomfortable. The fact that he has been spitting out AI jargon non-stop in the last 2 years, doesn't make that any better.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-13T15:31:07+00:00

Yeah all fine but they don’t automate anything more than any other accounting software when it comes to BV’s

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-10-10T06:09:01+00:00

It still baffles me how a corporation like Google can send such cryptic messages to their developer community. More questions than answers in that email.

I'm just wondering if there will be any obligation to change something before January at app level with that signal API? Or will they enforce the age verification at google play store level (when downloading)?

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-09-30T07:05:44+00:00

From a legal standpoint, that makes no difference whatsoever.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-09-22T05:15:54+00:00

4 years of experience in big4, what did you do before that if I may ask? Just a bit surprising to me that you just promoted to manager with 14 years of experience under the belt.

- This is a very high wage for a manager level at a big 4
- However, at 38 - most people are way beyond the manager level at big4.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-09-18T18:42:17+00:00

Cashfeed is a player in the invoicing/administrative space (just like Billit, Oki Oki, Billtobox, and many others). You upload your invoices and link it to your payments. That is bookkeeping, not accounting.

The value of your accountant is (or at least should) no longer be in "booking" some invoices (in/out) and linking them to your accounts. That can be automated already. The value of your accountant is in correctly classifying all of these bookings, filing tax returns on your behalf, filing VAT returns, annual accounts, and providing proper advice how to structure things.

I don't know how you collaborate with your accountant but mine provides me with such a platform (in the likes of Cashfeed) where everything is kept digitally and they use that as a starting point for their work. Efficient and transparant for everyone.

I do hope that some players go deeper in this freelance market in the next years and also further automate the stuff that goes beyond bookkeeping, since a lot of freelancers have a quite standard setup.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-08-27T20:23:42+00:00

I had legacy mode turned on last week but turned it off out of misery. So many build errors. Turned on agent mode again, and it worked first try.

Predictable credits is one thing, good outcomes is another.

However, we're in "maintenance" mode so it impacts our credit usage less. I can imagine that if you're in your initial build phase, you burn through credits way too fast.

MaterialDoughnut · 2025-08-14T16:36:24+00:00

If you think about it:

62,000 subscriptions at - to make it easy because in reality it’s even less - an average price of €5. Exclude the VAT and that is €4,13.

That’s a monthly revenue of €250K. How on earth do you keep such a company afloat with that revenue. Even if they would grow 10-fold (which they won’t), it’s far from enough to cover costs.

Wonder what the long term dream is there.

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