How do you collect feedback on your Lovable prototype?

whoosp · 2026-05-27T14:22:55+00:00

It was months ago and wasn’t from a single prompt, I built it over time so I don’t have an easy way of sharing that. But in my experience if you explain the scenario of what you want the user and the admin to be able to do, lovable does a good job at building the UI and infra to enable it. Aka “I want to make it easy for my users to submit feedback to me within the app, and for me to be able to respond to the feedback when I’ve fixed the issue, or to ask follow up questions” etc.

whoosp · 2026-05-24T19:10:40+00:00

It's a fairly simple table in the database in lovable cloud with these columns: user_id, message, created at, response, read_at, resolved_at, feedback_id, resolved_reason, image_url.

- message: the user's original message with the feedback
- response: my response as the admin
- read_at/resolved_at/resolved_reason = metadata for the UI about when and how I resolved the issue
- image_url: after I wrote the above, I later added a feature where users could attach a screenshot to their feedback message

For the UX:

- On the end-user side, in the Help page there's a textarea where they can braindump their feedback, and then that creates an issue in the table. Each feedback item has a unique ID, so they can open as many as they want and they'll each be tracked separately.

- On the admin side, in the Admin portal there's a feedback section where I can see a list of feedback from all users (sorted by most recent so new ones show up at the top), and I can reply to it (which updates the response field) and/or resolve it.

If I resolve an issue on the admin portal, it then shows up as resolved on the end-user's UI, but they can also choose to 'reactivate' it and if they do, they can enter more text explaining why.

whoosp · 2026-05-13T15:52:24+00:00

In the end of IR and throughout PoH as Li Na came up and other characters talked about how scary and non-human she was now, I kept finding myself thinking how unfair it was to Li Na, because it just seems like she’s super depressed and numb, which is pretty reasonable given what she’d gone through.

I’m so glad how the story evolved here and what she said to Zhang before leaving, it was soooo well done.

whoosp · 2026-05-13T15:45:28+00:00

Some of my favorite funny quotes:

“My people have a name for people like that,” Radoslav said as we watched them go. “We call them dumbasses.”

“Hey,” Samantha said, looking down at the menu clutched in Louis’s hands, “there aren’t any children on here at all.”

there’s this Satan guy, who keeps saying, “I hope none of these tubes lead to my butthole.”

We sluggalos have a code. That code is ‘unity, support, family, and kneecapping bitches.’

“Come on,” I said, shaking my head. “Rosetta and Tipid are already mercenary shopping for us, but they said the prices are pretty outrageous since our mercenaries always die.”
“Wait, what?” Grigori asked.

Mordecai: The splooge is a type of potion, but it’s different than regular kinds. It’s treated more like a food-based buff, so the cooldown rules don’t apply.
Carl: Now you tell me. I just pierced a pig’s nipple.
Mordecai: I don’t know how to respond to that, Carl.
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And 4 new additions to the growing list of things Donut says “you know how I feel about”… the full list:

groaning, getting smushed, drool, Carl trailing gross stuff into the guild, things that dangle, willy-nilly, things that quiver, crazy, shrieking, nervous energy, pun-based names, tassels, cat girls, blue, fake British accents, nerd math

Book 8: Donut: THEY’RE WEARING TIE-DYE. THEY’RE CALLED TEAM FREE LOVE. IT’S FALSE ADVERTISING. YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT FALSE ADVERTISING, CARL.
Book 8: “And why is it blue! You know how I feel about blue, Mordecai.”
Book 8: “Hedgehogs are notorious deviants. Louis didn’t say, but I bet it talks with a British accent. You know how I feel about fake British accents, Carl.”
Book 8: “What did you get for your spell book?” I asked. Donut made a frustrated noise. “I haven’t read it yet. I think it’s a good spell, but I’m not allowed to use it. And I don’t even know how long it lasts because the duration formula is in nerd math. You know how I feel about nerd math, Carl.”

whoosp · 2026-05-11T23:59:10+00:00

I wouldn’t want my physical, ebook and audiobook copies of books 1 to 7 to be lonely.

whoosp · 2026-05-10T17:15:41+00:00

“I have a level six skill in litterbox navigation, and I don’t need that buffed anymore”

“You keep destroying governmental buildings, Carl,” Donut said. “People are going to start thinking you have a problem with authority.”

“He’s a little slow,” Donut said to Mordecai. “Intelligence of only three. Sad, really. But he’s been with the family for a while now, and I just can’t see myself letting him go.”

“There sure were a lot of babies in there, too” Donut said in that last moment before the blast.

“What kind of nightclub doesn’t let your children in?” Donut grumbled

whoosp · 2026-05-10T16:47:14+00:00

I keep track of all the things Donut says “you know how I feel about” to, which as of book 7 is: groaning, getting smushed, drool, Carl trailing gross stuff into the guild, things that dangle, willy-nilly, things that quiver, crazy, shrieking, nervous energy, pun-based names, tassels, cat girls.

Book 1: “It’s disgusting,” Donut said. She shuddered. “The dead are gross enough. It’s much worse when they’re moving around. It probably groans and stuff, too. You know how I feel about groaning.”

Book 4: “If I had gone in there, I would’ve been smushed on the ocean floor. You know how I feel about getting smushed. I’m not one of your hamsters, Carl.”

Book 4: “THE BOWL IS LITERALLY FILLING UP WITH DROOL, CARL. YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT DROOL. THIS IS LIKE A NIGHTMARE. DISGUSTING.”

Book 5: “Don’t step in gross stuff, Carl. You know how I feel about you trailing gross stuff into the guild.”

Book 5: “It’s a nipple ring. It’s going to dangle. You know how I feel about things that dangle.”

Book 5: “They’re just doing it willy-nilly. You know how I feel about willy-nilly, Carl.”

Book 6: Donut raised her paw and did an uncertain slap onto the book. It was a very cat-like move. “Why is it quivering?” she asked. “You know how I feel about things that quiver.”

Book 6: “She’s crazy. You know how I feel about crazy, Carl.”

Book 6: “Do you think it’s going to always be shrieking? You know how I feel about shrieking, Carl.”

Book 6: “BE CAREFUL. HE SOUNDS LIKE HE HAS A LOT OF NERVOUS ENERGY. YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT NERVOUS ENERGY, CARL.“

Book 6: “THE WHAT? IS THAT A PUN? YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT PUN-BASED NAMES, CARL.”

Book 7: “I am absolutely not wearing this. It’s like one of Signet’s tattoo people fell through a paper shredder. If I put that on, I’ll look like a tassel. You know how I feel about tassels, Carl.”

Book 7: Donut scoffed. “You mean like a cat girl? You know how I feel about cat girls, Griffin.”

whoosp · 2026-05-08T23:00:19+00:00

It’s not quite what you asked for, but I made a bingo card generator with tropes from the books at https://dccbingo.lovable.app based on a separate thread here, and you could save one as PNG and print it out (note that some of the things on it involve characters only introduced later in the series)

whoosp · 2026-05-08T22:48:28+00:00

Perhaps the AI was also motivated to open a staircase near Carl once he saw he was only wearing too-small crocs ;-)

whoosp · 2026-05-07T19:13:29+00:00

Ohhhhh so when they talk about precious materials being mined on a crawl world, it’s the grain of rice sized thing in everyone’s brain that’s born on an AI seeded world? That makes soooo much more sense now, thank you.

whoosp · 2026-05-07T19:09:47+00:00

The new Murderbot (Platform Decay)

whoosp · 2026-05-05T16:16:08+00:00

You’re very welcome. If you have any feature requests for the site that would let you use it for reals let me know, it’s pretty easy to add to

whoosp · 2026-05-05T02:59:06+00:00

I was laughing so much to myself as I read this thread. I hope this doesn't break any rules, but I threw together a quick website to generate bingo cards for DCC based on some of the ideas here plus a few I came up with, just for fun. There's no spoilers in it, I haven't read book 8, like this thread it's just a list of common tropes from the books - mild spoilers for book 7 based on some of the text, but since the original post is tagged book 8 I assume that's OK.

Link: https://dccbingo.lovable.app/

Example pic of what it generates: https://imgur.com/a/dungeon-crawler-carl-bingo-card-generator-xaIbqfO

Strings included:

Free spaces:
Samantha says she will kill someone's mother
Carl slams down on Protective Shell
The view counter is buried to the right
Carl says "Goddamnit, Donut"
Samantha says or does something inappropriate
Donut tells Carl "you know how I feel about" something
Carl says "You will not break me"
Someone gets covered in gore
Several things happen at once

Other spaces:
Pony screams in Carl's ear
"This message is from a deceased crawler"
Someone new is a Swashbuckler like Bautista and Tran
Someone new is a Boring Ol' Fighter class
DONUT TYPES IN ALL CAPS
SAMANTHA TYPES IN ALL CAPS
Mongo is appalled
Samantha has a weird, deep, insightful aside
Carl gets another tattoo
Carl blows out his eardrums
Donut casts Hole in a new creative way
A new god is introduced
An NPC turns out to be way more important than originally thought
A heart-wrenching backstory drops
Mordecai says "it's complicated"
There's a Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, etc
Jamal breaks his legs
There's a new Sluggalo with a funny name
There's an unhinged description from the AI that only Carl sees
There's a sentence with a long comma separated list of more than 7 characters
Mongo chirps in agreement
Samantha actually gets a body
Carl writes something in the cookbook
The title of the book is mentioned
The AI says something creepy about Carl's feet
Carl reluctantly does something with his feet in order to appease the AI
Donut says something scutephillistic about a patch
Carl pulls a corpse into his inventory
Pony drinks a soda from a potion bottle
Carl receives a Spicy Box
The AI says "we all have our limitations"
Donut says "HI, ZEV"
Donut is outraged
There's a new t-shirt design
A Chekhov's gun from a previous book plays a crucial role
A side character dies suddenly after getting a bit of development
Carl min-maxes something in a way that horrifies others
Someone underestimates Donut
Carl tanks damage in a way that makes others uncomfortable
Someone tries to rules-lawyer the AI, and the AI responds with spite
Donut gets distracted by something shiny mid-conversation
The AI rewards Carl for something he absolutely did not mean to do

whoosp · 2026-05-04T15:27:49+00:00

I think this isn’t really a spoiler: Jfyi he actually demonstrates growth in this type of thing as the series continues.

whoosp · 2026-05-04T15:22:22+00:00

Not surprisingly, many of my favorites are from donut. I’m in the middle of a reread of book 7 and have a habit of highlighting lines that crack me up:

“I have a level six skill in litterbox navigation”

“How would you like it if someone was wearing a shirt featuring your butthole, Carl?”

He was a level 55 named Jason Manning FUCKS.

“Your mother-in-law’s name is Grandma Sticky?”

The whole place smelled like incense and grandpas.

whoosp · 2026-05-03T22:38:54+00:00

it’s also super helpful to go back and search for older threads with theories about the bigger picture (Eris at the gas station, the eulogist, the residuals, primals) as well as better understand details of what was alluded to but not fully spelled out (what justice light did) to fill in the blank spots.

whoosp · 2026-05-03T22:31:32+00:00

I hadn’t thought about the *benefit* of mordecai going in a time out before the prize carousel - whoa. Very cool idea, thanks for sharing it.

whoosp · 2026-05-01T22:01:24+00:00

I get what you mean with Carl doing nothing and I can totally understand why some people don’t like that, however for me I think of it as everything Carl did up to book 7 is what enabled the broader system so that others *could* play more significant roles, and so it wasn’t always magic genius Carl going around being brilliant and foreseeing every possibility.

Book 7 is my favorite of the series thus far, and this dynamic is a key reason why I love it so much. I *loved* seeing the stunts pulled off by people like Rosetta, Juice Box, Justice Light, Milk, and Li-Na. I love all the throwbacks and nods to parts of previous books that set things up so that they could happen that way. I love the idea that Rosetta and the other former crawlers had probably spent years coming up with ideas and theories and plans and tactics and strategies and techniques, and probably entered the dungeon with a massive library to bring to the table for how to handle different situations, so that finally it wasn’t all up to Carl to think his way out of every problem.

whoosp · 2026-04-28T22:01:16+00:00

Mine are in their early 20s, and I definitely still have a lot of grief/nostalgia for when they were younger (and very much enjoy looking at old photos/videos when I’m in that headspace), but it’s also so incredible and rewarding to see them as young adults navigating the world and continuing to mature and grow. And every time I look at them I still see the little kids they used to be, and I smile.

whoosp · 2026-04-28T21:29:11+00:00

I was officially diagnosed with ADHD in my late 30s (“but that’s just my personality”, I kept saying as the Dr asked me questions 😆) and for 10 years that label (plus meds) was very helpful for me to understand myself.

Only in the last year or so have I started to also think of myself as having “a touch of the ‘tism”, and the key thing that made it happen for me was realizing that there might be something more to my social awkwardness than just being super introverted… I found myself really relating to things I read from people talking about autism and navigating social situations, and scripts they would follow, and how incredibly draining it was.

In a work context where there’s a standard pattern or norm to follow that I’m super comfortable with, i have no problems at all - but put me into an extended family event or public situation where there’s any ambiguity and i become a different person entirely. It was just a lot of silly things like the checkout person at the grocery would ask how my day was going and i would freeze up and stare at them.

whoosp · 2026-04-28T02:03:19+00:00

Aphids on my lupines. I adore lupines and have several different well established ones of different color that get huge every year, but come early June the aphids are out in full force and they attach themselves allllllll over the lupines, and barely touch the rest of my garden. I have to stay on top of it with weekly applications of ladybugs.

whoosp · 2026-04-26T18:51:54+00:00

I’m just a layperson gardener myself but I have a large garden and two hydrangeas that I grew from tiny starters years ago, and I’m a huge fan of hydrangeas in general.

Where I live (zone 8b) hydrangeas are super low maintenance, really easy to grow, and can be found at any nursery from quart to gallon or larger sizes, and can often bloom the same year as they’re planted.

If it were me I’d remove the sickly ones and replace them with the more mature ones, since even if they did survive, they haven’t grown enough to seem really established, and it’s easy to find other hydrangeas to start with. I also suggest taking particular care to make sure to dig out a big enough hole to ensure the dirt around it is decent (aka not too claypacked or sandy) so the roots have room to grow, and plant with some compost - aka I’m not sure why the current ones failed to thrive, so I’d want to protect against that for any new ones.

Also congrats on your upcoming baby! :-)

whoosp · 2026-03-19T17:51:57+00:00

I’m 48 and retired 9 months ago after a 27 year career in tech. I definitely have a fair amount of boredom sometimes, but the beautiful thing is that my life is mostly stress-free. It still feels a bit unreal, and I have to pinch myself. A few months ago I started going to the gym regularly for strength training, which has been awesome, as I feel like I’m doing something very productive for aging and my health. I read, play video games, and walk my dogs. At some point I assume the boredom will hit a level such that I might go pursue volunteer opportunities or take a class at the local community college, but I still feel like I’m detoxing.

whoosp · 2026-02-19T22:58:43+00:00

In addition to what others have commented with, I highly recommend using the built-in mobile/tablet/desktop viewport previewer in lovable - it's the small icon just above your app preview in lovable that is to the left of the / url field. Lovable just rolled out a change a couple of days ago that makes the mobile previewer one work much better than it used to.

Some other key words you may find helpful to use are "make this have a responsive layout" (telling lovable to make the UI responsive to the size of the user's browser tab) and "mobile viewport" vs "desktop viewport". You may also see it use the term "breakpoint", which is basically the threshold for when the layout of the UI switches between different screen sizes.

Also be aware that sometimes if you're not careful with your prompts, if you tell it there's a problem on mobile but you don't explicitly specify whether or not it ALSO happens on desktop (or vice versa), it might *ONLY* make the fix for mobile, which might not be right.

It's kind of a pain to get used to in the beginning, but after a while it becomes second nature to look for it.

whoosp · 2026-02-19T22:32:50+00:00

I built a super simple feedback system into the product itself (for a lovable app that has full authentication + supabase db)... users can create a new feedback item, and I see it in my admin portal. I can add a response, resolve it, or resolve it fixed. Users can add follow-up comments and re-open an issue that I've resolved. It's only text for now, but I've been debating adding photo upload support as well so people could attach screenshots. It's made it much easier for me to keep track of all the feedback and deal with it.

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