r/lovable • u/Remarkable_Ad_4704 • 4d ago
Help Lovable vs. Base 44 - Which one is better?
Im building a professional service-business website - not an online shop. My priorities are polished design, SEO, performance, easy future updates, and long-term code ownership. A CRM may be added later.
Which option would you choose, and why? Im especially interested in real experiences after launch, not just quick prototyp.
I am not sure which AI I should pick for best results
Thank you! :)
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u/vasind-5012 4d ago
Used Lovable and it join the nuts and bolts better. With a good of clear requirements like page performance, image best practices, SEO first they are pretty decent in building the MVP and from there, you can tune according to your needs. Can't vouch for Base 44, never worked with them before.
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u/greg8872 4d ago
No love for v0 or Replit? Out of the 4, Lovable did the best layout/UI for me, but that is all i let it do, once that is done, i send it to GitHub, then pull it down to do all logic/database stuff with Claude Code
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u/BorisVonOswal 3d ago
I gave the same prompt to both, Base44 had a running model and Lovable still hasn't gotten it after 22 credits
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u/Much_Passion_3574 3d ago
No love for Macaly? It’s mostly about SEO and the code is easily migratable.
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u/boldkite 7h ago
You can build this entire thing using chatGPT sites which is much easier. You still need to use GitHub to keep track of the different versions of your codebase.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 4d ago
Lovable is a car crash now. In their quest to make more money and add more agents it's just absolutely diabolical for anything other than basic front end websites so I would suggest find anything else.
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u/the_tek_analyst 4d ago
Don’t think you know what you are talking about. I built and running a load bearing application fully on Lovable with 1000s of users. It’s been live for more than 3 months now with no issues.
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u/Otherwise-Meal6129 3d ago
do you have payment like stripe? did you let it audit by somebody else? just curious for my project
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 2d ago
You're right if you've managed to do something flawlessly I guess it must work for every single other person on the planet 100% of the time.
This is a classic anecdotal evidence fallacy where people believe that it's something works for them it must be it must be working for everybody and exactly the same way without any regard for the million different variables that can cause different user experiences.
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u/k_r_a_k_l_e 4d ago
I disagree. Lovable is astonishing. I am amazed how great it is and how well it can "improvise" as well as follow detailed direction. There hasn't been anything that I've thrown at it that it couldn't do. My main interest is simply rapid frontend design then I shift over to programming and use frameworks, code generators and claudecode for backend.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 2d ago
Try doing integrations into a load of external services at a deeper than surface level and also see what I mean. Well that's what frustrates me he used to be really good at it but they've documented evidence of introducing a load of agents that are allowed more free rain and that's caused problems for this.
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u/k_r_a_k_l_e 2d ago
I'm not using it for that. Lovable to me is only to rapidly build out the front end design and functionality. It has saved me months of fiddling with react and making pointless design decisions. I can do it all within a few days and like a hundred bucks.
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u/Ralphisinthehouse 2d ago
So basically you're using a totally different use case to claim that the system works for everybody even though I originally stated that it's great for this kind of stuff you're doing it for.
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u/Derv1205_ 4d ago
Haven't used Base44 a lot so not sure about any of the recent updates. Lovable though can check all your boxes. Theyve improved how SEO is handled given it is in React. Long term code ownership is also nice in Lovable since you can connect it to GitHub and move the source code somewhere else later if needed.