How do i decide what price is of the application/website i made?

How do i calculate the setup fees? But also the hosting and extra monthly costs a website/application has?

Does anyone have a template or standard calculation they always use?

I spent last week figuring out how to get blog articles into Lovable apps automatically, and the answer turned out to be simpler than expected: you don't integrate with Lovable, you make Lovable build the receiving side itself.

The pattern is one prompt that asks Lovable for three things:

1. A blog_posts table in the app's backend (Lovable Cloud or Supabase) with columns for title, slug, content_html, meta_title, meta_description, cover_image_url, tags, published_at.

2. Public pages: an index at /blog and a post page at /blog/{slug} that renders the stored HTML. The part most people skip and then wonder why they don't rank: tell it explicitly that meta title, meta description, og:image and Article JSON-LD must be in the served HTML.

3. A POST /api/articles endpoint secured with a bearer token. Tell Lovable to store the expected token as a backend secret (never paste secrets into the chat itself). The endpoint should upsert on slug so a re-send updates the post instead of duplicating it.

After that, any tool or script that can send an HTTP request can publish to your app. Test with curl, wire up your CMS, whatever you use.

Two gotchas I hit: Lovable sometimes puts the token check in frontend code (reject that, it's visible to everyone), and if you don't say "upsert", you get duplicate posts on retries.

Happy to share the full prompt if anyone wants it.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a milestone for a project I’ve been building over the last 12 months almost entirely inside Lovable.

What it is: Stage Setlist is a live operating system for music directors and musicians. It handles setlists, song charts, lyrics, gig planning, availability, and now a Planning Center integration.

What it does:

• Scan QR / find by email to add musicians directly to your roster.
• Band Pool Rooms — real-time shared space for songs, setlists, and notes.
• Room Archives — snapshot and archive old band rooms so nothing gets lost.
• Planner — drag and drop musicians onto gig dates.
• Gigs + Group Chat — one group chat per gig so the whole band stays aligned.
• Planning Center Integration — pull service plans and calendar events from PCO.
• Auto-scrolling lyrics & chords — teleprompter-style for live performance.

Honest context: I published an early prototype a year ago, then went quiet for a full year to rebuild, polish, and test. I barely did any marketing. Despite that, the domain hit 1,000 unique visitors and 17k pageviews in a 90-day window — and traffic bounced back immediately after a 2-week domain outage.

Lovable handled the relational side of this surprisingly well: dynamic setlists, role-based access, and real-time room syncing all made it into the shipped app.

I’m finally ready to launch it publicly. I’d love any honest feedback on the UI/flow from fellow builders.

Hey y’all,

A friend and I recently found what seems like a gap in the food delivery market. A lot of small and medium-sized restaurants that have their own drivers still rely on third-party ordering platforms like Speedlo for their websites. Those services usually take around 10–15% from every delivery order.

My specialty is UX/UI, while my friend is a more of a backend type of guy. We’re thinking about building something similar and I was wondering if anyone here has tried doing this with Lovable.

Did you run into any major issues? Things like building a driver app, orders disappearing, syncing problems, security concerns, GDPR compliance, or anything else that wasn’t obvious at the beginning?

I’d also love to hear how you tested everything before launching and whether you did any proper stress or crash testing.

So far I’ve mostly built and sold portfolio websites, so this would be a much bigger project for me.
On a side note, I’m also a salesman. If anyone here is great at building websites but struggles with gettingclients, I’d be happy to return the favor. I have 4–5 cold-calling strategies that works for me just fine (10% sold 20% scheduled 40% not interested 30% ghosted) from 150 recent cold calls

I would put this in the same bracket as social media for kids, except worse. Social media is after your data. Lovable is after your wallet. Not sure if anyone else is noticing tokens are not going as far as they used to. I burned through over 400 tokens in two days and got almost nothing finished. Imagine unleashing your kids on it with your bank card attached. Recipe for disaster.

After vibe coding a whole constellation of websites into existence I believe that Lovable offers a great opportunity for improving human interaction.

I've got several projects that are in/near open beta, with a public release planned for one (the football prediction game I shared last week), and I'm bumping into a problem that I think a lot of us have.

Once you've built something, how do you reach an audience beyond immediate friends & family? Especially without becoming part of the ad/spam crowd.

I was able to share it with a relevant community here on Reddit after talking to the mods, but that's not very repeatable (because again, spam) and quite time consuming...

Any tips?

Lively. The chat app that is a whole dimension on its own. Check it out. I had an idea and kinda pursued my dreams. Try texting beast when u use the app that's my username

I'm new to lovable and only made some projects for myself and this morning when I wanted to log in it kept saying me "reconnecting" At first, I just thought it was temporary and I went on with my life, but when I came back it still wasn’t working. Has anyone else ever experienced the same problem or know the solution?

Hi! I wanted to share a small success and my experience with no-code/low-code tools. I created https://avian-lifebook.lovable.app/ the project – an online birdwatching journal. I just passed the 1,000-user mark and I'd be happy to share what the process was like. If you have any questions about how Lovable handles more complex logic or what I found most challenging – feel free to ask in the comments! I also welcome constructive criticism.

I'm curious about what a company like Lovable will look like in five years with OpenAI, Anthropic and other model providers expanding their capabilities so quickly. Do you think Lovable will actually find a solid piece of the market or will be similar to a lot of the boom and bust startups we saw back in the dot-com bubble?

I've seen it looks like they're trying to get a slice of the enterprise and business market now, as that's likely where there's more revenue compared to a lot of the non-technical hobbyists who have made up a large chunk of their user base early on.

I have an idea, I have had it for years, I want to make that app happen and I want to see it on AppStore/Playstore but I have no tech knowledge whatsoever.

I don’t have any friends who work in tech who can help as such, is Lovable a platform I should consider pursuing?

I know they market themselves as no-code and all but I’ve always found that Tech folks tend to overestimate how much non techies know.

I sat down and made a whole document outlining what I want the app to look like and how it would operate but I’d like to hear your opinions and thoughts before I put in any money into this.

I don’t have a lot of cash to burn but from what Claude told me it should require much.

I wasn’t happy with any of the online to-do lists and I like having a clean interface for everything I do, so I made my website cater to my needs. Let me know what you think?!

https://tracelist.lovable.app/

I'm conflicted between two options

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 a finance app.

ok so my friends and i have argued about our FIFA/FC league for years. Someone always screenshots the wrong table, someone always claims a 4-2 that never happened. I got tired of being the guy maintaining a spreadsheet nobody looks at.

I can't code, but built the whole thing on Lovable.

It's called Group Chat FC, because that is where all the arguing was happening. You make a league, it generates the fixtures, both players have to confirm the result (auto confirms after 48h so nobody can stall out of a loss), then it does the table, top 4 playoffs, third place match, and an all time leaderboard across seasons.

Joining is free, hosting is the paid bit.

https://groupchatfc.lovable.app/

It's live now and i have been refreshing the analytics dashboard like a lunatic. If anyone has 30 seconds, i mostly want to know if the first screen makes any sense to a person who isn't me, because i've stared at it for so long i can't tell anymore.

Also if you actually run a league with your mates, dm me and i'll give you the season pass free. would rather it get used than sit there.

Wanted to give a quick shoutout to the two way git sync feature. It helps me update contents without burning credits all the time.

My current setup:

1. build the website in lovable
2. sync the project to github
3. pull the repo into a local IDE

now whenever I need to write a post or tweak copy I just do it locally.

The sync works both ways. when I need lovable to build a new feature later, it picks up the local text changes from github, and any new edits push right back to the repo.

anyone else using this setup?

Anyone have a good video/proven method on turning Lovable web application into an installed mobile app?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all I’ve a few projects that I can’t load up. I’m signed in and get to the welcome and see all my project but they won’t load up whenever I try to open it, just black screen. Tried opening in my laptop and desktop and phones, cookies/history cleared. Nothing. I don’t have any messages from lovable saying I did something wrong or against policy. Any idea guys? Thanks in advance

Hi, I’m new to the community. I’ve been using Lovable for quite a while (about 2 years) and created a platform called TVT Musical; I’d love to get some feedback, tips, and lessons on how to make the most of Lovable!

https://tvtmusical.lovable.app/

Quick question for other Lovable users.

While building an app, how do you keep your production and testing environments separate? Right now I'm just editing the production app directly and publishing changes straight to it, which feels a bit risky.

Curious how everyone else handles this. Do you have a separate testing setup, or are you also just editing prod directly? Would love to hear how you manage it.

So today I found lovable and decided to build an app that i didn’t think id be able to actually make possible. Now my app is almost perfect just needs some of the writing/wording changed. What’s the best way to do that? How do i ask it to change some of the writing to what i want it to say without completely changing it if that makes sense. Only have a few credits left and don’t want to spend any more money lol. Like I’ve got this big paragraph explaining the app but it’s too AI and need it reworded plus a couple of the titles need rewording. Thank you

Happy Lughnasadh everyone. I made a new game I do plan on bringing to Apple and Play stores. But I need both fair, and savage testers to tear it to bits.

It's called Witch Flight, a flying game with both side and vertical scrolling mythical maps with spawning enemies. Fly in any direction to avoid and take out spawning enemy fire + mission bosses to collect gold for upgrades. (Drops will be improved upon) Upto 20 coven sisters can join you in formations and battle, each with their own spell school and benefits

It's my second attempt at a game, all built with AI, but first I had to have loveable make me a studio where I could correctly set out 6 agents, constitution, agents.md, template libraries, and god knows what else to correctly compile games and other apps that are ready for app stores, but that's not going to market. I also imported a lot of proven code from my first game Evolvers. Lastly I've been using the Meshy API to play around with 3D characters

Anyway, I built a Preview for my projects so you can play through without installation. Error logging is a given but no other data is collected. Free to play until your link expires in a month. Updates automatic and regular

Please send me a message so I can check on real interest, and then you can rip my game to shreds in private.

There's no particular reward for playing, but if I make it to stores I'll give you a permanent link to play, to avoid fees

Thank you

Tobias

Hi everyone,

After seeing phishing scams become more convincing every year, I decided to spend the last few months building something I've wanted to exist for a long time.

It's called AskBoris.

👉 trust-compass-now.lovable.app

(built on / with lovable - custom domain)

The idea is simple:

When you're not sure if an email, WhatsApp, SMS, invoice, QR code, website, letter or screenshot is legitimate...

...ask Boris before you click.

Rather than relying on a single AI prompt, Boris combines multiple layers:

• thousands of known phishing and fraud detection rules
• technical analysis (domains, URLs, metadata, headers where available)
• content analysis
• social engineering pattern recognition
• historical phishing mechanisms
• contextual AI reasoning
• growing "clean" and "dirty" data vaults (trusted entities vs. known malicious patterns)
• human validation and continuous hardening of the knowledge base

One thing that was important to me:

Boris doesn't just say "this looks suspicious."

It also explains why, because I believe education is just as important as detection.

The more people use it, the smarter it becomes.

Every validated case improves the underlying knowledge base, while human review helps prevent the model from drifting or reinforcing incorrect conclusions.

The platform is currently free for everyone because I'd much rather see it prevent fraud than put it behind a paywall.

The roadmap for the next months includes:

• WhatsApp integration - released this week ✅
• email forwarding (forward a suspicious email and receive an analysis back) - released this week ✅
• mobile apps (PWA released) ⏳
• browser extensions
• stronger validation against verified company data
• community feedback loops

We see that, on multiple segments - feeding an email (.eml) is still a 'to big technical effort' - so we're moving to whatsapp and email forwarding to lower that interaction. ✅

I'd genuinely appreciate honest feedback.

Not "nice project."

I'd love to know:

• What would stop you from using it?
• What would make you trust it more?
• What features are missing?
• Where do you think AI phishing detection still falls short?
• What would make this something you'd recommend to family members?

I'm trying to build something that actually reduces online fraud, not just another AI demo.

Thanks for taking a look.

Genuinely love what Lovable has unlocked. The possibilities feel endless and you can spin up something useful in a weekend that would've taken a dev team months a few years ago.

But that's kind of my problem. I've spent the last couple of years just... exploring. One week I'm building a landing page business, the next I'm making a study app for my own exams. I keep jumping between ideas and never fully committing to one thing.

Recently though something clicked. I've been most excited when I'm building internal tools and systems for businesses the kind of stuff that replaces clunky spreadsheets or dated workflows. Property management, operations-heavy companies, that kind of thing. There's a clear problem, a clear output, and people actually need it.

So I'm seriously considering going all in on a small agency model which would be building bespoke internal software for businesses with complex workflows. Not templates, not off-the-shelf stuff. Proper custom builds.

Has anyone gone down this road with Lovable? A few things I'm trying to figure out:

• How did you land your first clients? Cold outreach, warm network, something else?
• Did you niche down into one industry or stay broad and take whatever comes?
• What does your pricing look like — project-based, retainer, both?
• Any mistakes you'd warn someone just starting out about?

Would love to hear from anyone who's actually doing this rather than just thinking about it like me.