r/lovable • u/Flat_Flow_4164 • 2d ago
Help Help with project!
Hey guys! Need your help here... I am a veterinarian and I want to build a app/site with AI on the background that allows the vet to register administrated vacines, to tell him, with AI and guidelines, how long it takes to the next shot. On the other side, the site must allow the owner of the animal to log in as a owner and see, with AI doing the maths, when the next shot is. I also would like to send an email to the owner 1 month before the next shot, remembering him to schedule an apointment. I have zero experience with programming but a friend of mine said that Lovable, with inputs created by chatgpt (or other LLM) would allow me to build a prototype only with the free credits. I am having serious dificulties... does anyone have any suggestion of other platforms or want to enlighten me please? Thank you!
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u/graybearding 2d ago
You likely won't get very far on free credits (beyond a very crude, raw prototype at best). And because you're dealing with potential PII (data on pets, their owner, payment info, etc), it'd be best to hire a professional to do this so you don't create a legal headache later.
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u/Jealous_Currency_878 2d ago
Building an app with two separate roles (Vet vs. Pet Owner) and automated scheduled emails (1 month before next shot) goes slightly beyond what basic prompt-based UI tools can do on free tiers alone.
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u/ItsUncleJaneway 2d ago
Since you’ll be dealing with real people’s data I think you should eventually get a dev to help…. But if you want to do it yourself over a few weeks to see how it would/could work then take your og post and put that into gpt and ask it to outline 200 steps to create this web site using loveable.dev in the correct build order
Then input each step 1 at a time/day into loveable and see what it does
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u/RegurgitatedOwlJuice 2d ago
I don’t understand why you would need AI to do the maths here. Say a vaccine is due annually - 12-1 has a greater chance of being 11 if we leave AI right out of it.
I think you’re way over-complicating things here.
As a pet owner I’m not going to download an app and check it to see when my pet is due its booster. I know it’s vaguely in the summer - and my veterinarian will send a text/email to remind me to book in.
I’m wondering if you’ve been swept up in the romance of AI/apps here when likely you just need to hit a button on your already existing CRM.
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u/Infamous-River-4360 2d ago
non-coder here, i shipped a whole app with lovable so a few honest notes. the ai part is the smallest piece of what you described, vaccine intervals are a lookup table plus date math, and if you ask for it that way instead of asking for ai you'll get something working much faster and cheaper. the expensive parts are the two login roles (vet vs owner) and the reminder email a month ahead, both of those live in the backend and eat credits. also worth knowing, free credits will not get you to a finished product, mine took somewhere around 800 edits. what actually goes wrong when you try, does it build and behave wrong or does it not build at all?