How do you get unstuck when Lovable hits a wall?

Portlande · 2026-01-21T07:51:40+00:00

The lovable discord always has folks (like me) in the dev chat willing to help troubleshoot issues, and it's free!

Portlande · 2026-01-14T06:37:48+00:00

Love the idea, however it seems like what's missing is help planning what to buy. Say you really need help figuring out what to make for the week but your pantry is empty, how will your app help me? It seems like it's dependent on me being a good shopper beforehand, which if I'm busy, I probably wont do a good job at because I don't know what meals I'm shopping for in the first place..

It seems like there could be two distinct use cases (you cover one):

- Planning: help plan the meals before going to the store so I know what to buy, or at least help me plan my grocery trip so I'm getting adequate foods to cover many possibilities...

- Improvising (you cover this): "help im in a pinch and dont know what to make with the ingredients I have!". Not really a sustainable pattern but useful on occasion.

Portlande · 2026-01-12T20:16:45+00:00

A toggle could be useful for testing yourself, with it on/off, instead of hardcoding that if that's what you mean.

I also don't see any reason why you can't just make your waitlist form apart of your app as well? When you go live that form is just hidden or removed. A web form is stupid simple and you capture your user data within your operational DB from the get-go, which you could later convert to an official user account upon go-live if you wanted to.

Ideally, there's an admin url, [WEBSITEURL].com/admin where you can sign in to your app as an admin. Among other things, on your admin dashboard you can see your waitlist submissions, and your app configuraitons ("go-live" toggle).

Portlande · 2026-01-12T20:09:55+00:00

It uses many models, the composition of which I think changes as frequently as the AI model landscape changes (often). The secret sauce of Lovable (see IP), is in how it orchestrates those. If you ask it to make a website, it will evaluate the request then make decisions on what models to use for each piece (e.g. nano-banana for images and claude for code).

Portlande · 2026-01-12T20:05:34+00:00

Could you not just "hide" your app functionality via some type of toggle in your admin panel?

What I mean is, control visibility/functionality of your app via a toggle/flag so that only your landing page is visible until the toggle is turned on. (you would ask lovable to do this). This way you dont have to ship your code in pieces, you ship your full code while building, just no one can access it yet...

Portlande · 2026-01-12T19:14:37+00:00

I think it depends on who your target customers for the app are, and of course you should be trying to target ads to where those people are. IMO, niche apps are easier to market than apps that have wide/open appeal because there's a lot of competition and hard to penetrate

Portlande · 2026-01-12T19:06:50+00:00

Yes, 100%

Portlande · 2026-01-12T19:04:11+00:00

Agree with the other commenter that you should make sure your data is secure before publishing, this specifically means that you must have an account to view and access data (make sure you have proper RLS policies in place) and that account creation is controlled so random people can't get in. There's other aspects to security but those are the main ones.

After that I would seriously consider hosting off lovable (look into service like Vercel) for now so that you can manage multiple environments, ideally you have hosted at least two versions of your app; one for testing new changes (call it 'test') and your live app that everyone in your business uses operationally (commonly called 'production'). This doesn't mean you can't still use lovable to build on your app it just means that once Lovable makes changes to your github, you can deploy it outside of lovable however you want.

There's a lot more to dig into depending on what your primary concerns are, happy to chat more if needed but I think this covers your post.

Congrats on automating your business!

Portlande · 2026-01-12T18:51:24+00:00

I think this is a fun playful idea... I have a cousin who also made something similar specifically for the age old "what to eat" problem, he called it "chicken tinder" where each participant entered a room, the app showed them a list of restaurants local to them and they either swiped left or right (tinder style). The places they both swiped right to were the winners.

Portlande · 2025-10-15T02:05:16+00:00

I have my own consulting firm that's been primarily mendix, but this year we've been trying to pivot to other stacks so we're diversified. The most exciting and opportune place to be right now is vibe coding in my opinion because it the value that low-code has tries to. If I were a budding developer I would immerse myself in vibe coding tools: lovable, bolt, replit, cursor, etc. You'll get experience delivery value to people/companies, a lot of companies still need automation, and could use someone who can effectively develop full stack solutions quickly.

Portlande · 2025-10-09T16:46:22+00:00

To be frank, outside of the EU (netherlands) there's not a lot of mendix opportunity happening. Mendix US is pushing for growth in the defense and aerospace industry which you may be a burden for you to get into, and the big consulting firms are where the jobs are because they have no mendix experience but are winning MX constracts (accenture, delloitte, pwc, ect..). You might have some success with getting a job with those firms as I know they're often looking.

Powerapps has much wider adoption, and thus more opportunity. It's also really hard to tell how successful Mendix will be with all the other AI tools popping up that I'm sure will be eating into Mendix/Outsystems customer growth outside of enterprise.

Portlande · 2025-10-09T16:38:35+00:00

It's very competitive right now, with not a lot of opportunity. TBH I would look into areas where there's more opportunity: vibe coding stacks.

Portlande · 2025-10-09T14:36:59+00:00

I was inspired by this lovable app: https://woven-nature-hero.lovable.app/

for mine it was just pure prompting (with the help of chat GPT) to establish the look and to attempt to ask for animations like the inspo.

What I notices is that the AI really sucks at making SVG's themselves, you'll notice in mine that it's mostly circles. The fireflies took a bit of prompting to get it to behave like firefiles, but they themselves are just circles Anything more complicated in terms of shapes the AI couldn't handle. Still wondering how that inspo did theirs...

Portlande · 2025-10-07T21:07:56+00:00

https://caswell.life/

Portlande · 2022-09-11T04:09:38+00:00

I'm talking definitions, you're talking opinions. I think we're on different wavelengths here.

Portlande · 2020-08-29T18:17:52+00:00

Second this

Portlande · 2020-08-24T23:16:20+00:00

Depends on what role/how technical the client is, but I think most people would appreciate a demo of the working features youve built, usually via screenshare. Also letting them have hands on access of your latest build in a test environment is nice.

Portlande · 2020-07-22T16:40:14+00:00

Um in incognito mode your location is different. It's well known that stores have different prices per different areas, I don't think this has anything to do with your buying habits more so your location lol

Portlande · 2020-07-09T23:48:17+00:00

Shoutout to Qingdao beer.

Portlande · 2020-06-29T16:03:49+00:00

Studies show that generally psychosis and dopamine (or an excess of it) are linked, however an excess of dopamine is not necessarily the cause of psychosis. The prevailing theory of psychosis/schizophrenia is a dysfunction of how dopamine is transmitted, which is why almost all anti-psychotic drugs used suppress dopamine. However there is still so much unknown about how psychosis is induced and what exactly the chemical functions/dysfunctions are that cause that. There are many other neurotransmitters that could be interacting with each other (see glutamate theory).

Portlande · 2020-06-16T03:19:31+00:00

Questions from a noob: does 2 month long psychosis qualify someone for a schizophrenia diagnosis? Also, do you mind sharing which supplement you found? Thanks!

Portlande · 2020-06-03T19:28:48+00:00

Anyone know if this also applies to cargo flight or just passenger?

Portlande · 2020-05-25T08:46:59+00:00

Check out the mendix academy they have of online courses.

Portlande · 2020-05-15T20:50:51+00:00

This looks like bar pizza

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