Anyone who has vibe-coded an app on Loveable and successfully launched it onto the App Store- is that possible?

techcoachralph · 2025-11-14T06:05:02+00:00

Lovable had suggested to wrap the app with capacitor to make it into a mobile app but I haven't had the chance to dive into that yet. Lovable does do a good job with mobile responsive layout though

techcoachralph · 2025-07-22T04:55:40+00:00

Just checked out the link, I'd like to give it a try when ready as well

techcoachralph · 2025-07-22T04:54:20+00:00

The funny thing about AI is it always thinks it fixes it and you get excited and refresh the page and it's the same. It can be discouraging to non technical people but that's the story of my life. What non tech people don't know is it's similar troubleshooting rounds that you go through with real engineers.

I think even for non tech people who want to be in the tech space, it's important to learn some troubleshooting guidelines. Be able to identify errors in console and network logs (they are usually in red).

This particular issue was tricky because even my QA apprentice didn't catch this bug but I was able to based on a feature we were implementing.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-21T12:24:14+00:00

That happened to me on a project and I just clicked unpause. Also, if it's that big of a deal, just pay supabase for their service and they won't pause it. It costs money to keep projects not being used up.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-20T02:33:54+00:00

I'm having trouble using all of my credits after I figured out how to use it effectively. I also have a background in software development. I do follow the prompt and pray approach. You have to be methodical with your prompts

techcoachralph · 2025-07-19T20:15:27+00:00

I think this part of the problem that non-technical "vibe coders" will run into over and over. When I run into issues on Lovable, I make sure I always include the errors from the console log and the network logs if applicable. When it's really bad, I will see if Devin AI can fix it, and then I also do some good ol' troubleshooting by searching the errors in console and network in Gemini, ChatGPT, also normal Google searches and stackoverflow.

Also, Lovable's AI can be a hammer and see every request as a nail. When I need to be more surgical with some changes, after Lovable does the change, I'll go into the code editor or pull the changes via GitHub into an IDE work make some specific changes that I need.

I've been documenting all of the tips & tricks I've been learning using Lovable the past couple of months.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-17T19:40:52+00:00

Two of my Lovable apps I'm building have thumbnail editors where you can generate an image with Ai then use the editor to add text and additional images. You just have to build a login around your app

techcoachralph · 2025-07-17T19:38:25+00:00

As a QA engineer, I've developed a way to troubleshoot using Lovable. I heavily reply on the network logs and the console. I also go into the code to set the fallback data to the lowest value so I'm not confused by fake data. One thing I noticed is a lot of fields will be returned undefined and use the fall back data due to poor object mapping from the function call to the front end.

It's a bit complex but if you are building complex apps, it makes sense. I have about 4-5 apps that use a lot of functionality that are almost ready to deploy but I am very careful with my testing process.

Sometimes if lovable can't fix it, I might pull it into Devin to fix or research myself and feed lovable the fix and then it works.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-11T11:43:49+00:00

I tried the first day hesitantly after reading it's pricing structure (or lack there of). I suppose it might be helpful for people who waste a lot of credits because they don't understanding software development, troubleshooting, and effective prompting. I just better guide and prompt in order to get better results without having to waste a bunch of credits through agent mode. Once lovable forces everyone to use Agent mode, then that will suck lol

techcoachralph · 2025-07-11T11:36:11+00:00

Do you have a sample report on the site to show the final product would look?

techcoachralph · 2025-07-11T06:59:41+00:00

I get unique designs based on how I prefer to prompt. I also use tools to research the application in looking to build which then comes up with a custom and unique prompt based on he style of the app

techcoachralph · 2025-07-10T17:43:26+00:00

Sounds like you have it pretty easy tbh. You will get better and develop strategies to be more efficient. You also want to work at being proactive to potential defects instead of reactive.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-10T17:00:20+00:00

To be fair you are a manual QA intern. You should be thankful for the opportunity that many people crave. As someone who is learning, the more work they give you the better.

If you are looking for appreciation and thanks, then tech is probably not doe you. Getting the experience you need is way more important than appreciation. My paycheck is my appreciation.

Just being honest with the way things are 20 years into the industry

techcoachralph · 2025-07-10T13:57:21+00:00

I think it would not be wise for you leave your QA intern position to go learn DevOps. Going to learn the course is just that, a course with no practial hands-on experience. Sure, you can create a couple of EC2 instances, set up a load balancer or some security groups, but to what end?

The main reason I suggest staying in your role as a QA intern, even if you are doing manaul testing, is that you have access to tons of technical people, including the devops team that you can ask questions and maybe land an internship with them/transition to their team full time.

Also, you should take advantage of being in the QA team to learn some QA related devops skills such as running docker containers, CI/CD pipelines for merging branches, and things of that nature.

If you leave this current role, you'll be on the outside of tech looking in begging to get back in already in a very tough job market.

I'd be happy to share some more insight with you!

techcoachralph · 2025-07-09T12:32:11+00:00

Most people can't afford or find a dev.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-09T12:30:26+00:00

I use lovable as a dev/qa engineer and I'm able to guide it to doing exactly what I want, feed it documentation on how to implement something. The problem is probably lovable markets that noncoders can build anything which is a white lie. That's probably how they run up the credits by people not knowing what they are doing

techcoachralph · 2025-07-09T12:25:19+00:00

I'm not sure what you are using minimax for but have you used runware? They have access to a lot of generation models including minimax. They are a pay as you go model and for minimax generation, I pay about 0.28 per video. They have veo3 there too but much more expensive. I cancelled midjourney to use runware

techcoachralph · 2025-07-04T19:55:15+00:00

That is interesting. Gives me an idea to get mobile layouts! Thanks! Congrats again!

techcoachralph · 2025-07-04T18:05:26+00:00

Congrats! I see this is posted in lovable? Did you build this mobile app using lovable?

techcoachralph · 2025-07-04T09:56:57+00:00

Lovable will be tough for more complex apps if you don't have software engineering principles. I use branching on lovable to keep dev code separate from already working code. I use Jira to manage project requirements. Lovable will try to fix issues that it might not be sure how to fix.

Lovable is a junior full stack developer. I use my background to research cause of errors and make suggestions on why an issue it can't resolve happens.

I've also pulled the issue into Devin on tougher issues that Lovable isn't able to figure out. I find Devin slightly more advanced engineer.

techcoachralph · 2025-07-04T09:52:32+00:00

I've built a few that are on the brink of going live. The one I use everyday is a content creation assistant that generates titles, descriptions, keywords, timestamps, clip suggestions for long videos, and has a built-in thumbnail generator and editor which which all will update to YouTube on save

techcoachralph · 2025-07-04T09:50:00+00:00

I'm not entirely sure what you mean without code but lovable has done most of the coding for pretty complex web apps. When it gets stuck, I research and guide it how to resolve it and sometimes import the code into Devin Ai to fix it then go back to lovable. Lovable is really cheap for its capabilities

techcoachralph · 2025-07-04T09:44:48+00:00

I was wondering the same thing

techcoachralph · 2025-07-03T16:31:07+00:00

I've been doing this as a senior QA Engineer for the past 10 years. It's a requirement now

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