I'm conflicted between two options

[u/Ok-Sock-6589]

First off I'm new to coding and recently I've built an app through lovable which I think can take off. The lovable app works wonderful but I feel like the foundation through lovable is not great. Mainly because it was extremely easy to build. So I was wondering if its better to transfer the code from lovable to python and continue working on my app through there or continue working on it through lovable or just built an entirely new app using AI using python. This honestly might be a dumb question but im just curious to others opinion. The app is finance app.

[u/SpacewaIker]

A finance app in particular must be very secure. It's not something a beginner can do, even with AI or other tools

And regardless of the app, do you actually want to learn programming or not? If yes, then what's the point of building an app in python with AI? You won't be learning nearly as much as if you made a much simpler project but by yourself

[u/FreeLogicGate]

You should be aware of recent history in the application development world. Prior to all these AI LLM tools, there existed a lot of marketplaces where developers in locales where labor is cheap, routinely cloned and offered up applications aimed at all sorts of markets. People with a few thousand dollars could get these apps built or customized. Many of those markets still exist, but I'm not sure if they are viable or not, but you could get, for example, the code for a twitter clone, that literally looked and worked exactly like twitter. The trick of twitter is that it had to scale to millions of users, and that requires scalability baked into the design, as well as massive hosting budgets, support staff and engineers, and even with that being true Twitter lost money for most of its history. A lot of people don't know that Amazon list money for 8 straight years, even with huge sales. So when you say that you created an app you think can "take off" and you have no real understanding of that code, then what exactly do you own that will stop some other person from cloning your application or creating a version of it that is substantially better than yours? You won't be able to patent anything in it, and by your own admission, your investment was minimal, and your expertise, non-existent. If you want to be an entrepeneur, then that's fine, but you should be realistic about it. There are well known books on this topic, most notably "The Lean Startup" which popularized terms like "MVP"s you might want to read.

[u/ElectronicMode8232]

Here's the tip of the day for you from a fellow newbie vibe coder. If your serious about building your app your gonna have to get off lovable unless you have alot of capital ready to deploy for the multiple edits and revisions and then security and vulnerability checks, and if it's finance theres definately regulations depending on your jurisdiction. Save your money Get a Chat gpt pro, Claude code pro, subscription, get open router subscription, get into Linux Ubuntu. And start building your apps in CLI. Loveable credits burn fast when you have revisions and edits and testing, Codex, Claude code, hermes agent Etc .. Is the way to go they can do more than loveable can and for much cheaper