Lovable development help
Building on Lovable? Get the product, design and architecture help the prompt cannot give you.
Lovable is a good way to ship. It is not a product manager, a designer or an architect, and most apps that stall on it stall for one of those three reasons, not because of the tool. We help founders build on Lovable the way a senior product engineer would: decide what to build, design it so people understand it, structure the Supabase side so it survives success, and set up the habits that keep the app shippable. No migration pitch. If Lovable is the right place, we help you stay.
Sessions are remote, in English, on US and Western European hours.
Where Lovable apps get stuck
Six things the tool will happily build wrong
Lovable does what it is told. These are the places where being told the right thing takes experience the prompt does not have.
The product is a list of features
Screens got built because they could be. Nobody wrote down who the user is, what they are trying to do, and which one thing has to work for the business to work. Every sprint adds; nothing sharpens.
The design is the template
Generated layouts look fine and read wrong. Flows have no hierarchy, forms ask for everything, the one action that matters is the same size as the six that do not.
The schema was shaped by the first prompt
Tables named after screens, billing state on the users row, no tenant boundary, RLS switched on later as an afterthought. Reporting, permissions and invoicing all need workarounds within months.
Security is whatever the generator did
Policies that read USING (true), the service key in the bundle, edge functions with no input checks. The free audit finds the outside layer; the rest needs someone who knows where to look.
Every change is a gamble
No staging, no tests, no environments. The prompt edits production. A good week ships five features; a bad week breaks checkout at 6pm on a Friday.
Nobody reviews the output
The tool is fast, so decisions go unexamined. A senior eye on the schema change or the auth flow before it is accepted costs an hour and saves the quarter.
What we help with
Product, design, architecture, practice: the four things the prompt cannot supply
Pick one or take all four. Everything is done with you, in your project, so the capability stays with you.
Product management
A one-page product definition: the user, the job, the metric, the smallest slice that proves it. A backlog ordered by evidence, not by what was easy to generate. Weekly prioritization if you want it.
Product design
Flows redrawn around the decision the user is making; a design system Lovable can follow consistently; forms and onboarding that convert. Designed in Figma or straight in the project: whichever your team keeps.
Application architecture on Supabase
A data model that survives month seven: tenants, money, state, history. RLS policies written and tested on purpose. Edge functions where they belong. A migration plan from the schema you have to the one you need, without leaving Lovable.
Security review
The full inside view the free audit cannot see: policies, keys, edge functions, third-party access, personal data. A written report with what to fix today and what can wait.
Practices that keep it shippable
A staging project, a release rhythm, a way to test the paths that make money, backups you have restored once, and a prompt discipline so the tool changes what you meant.
Senior review on call
A standing arrangement: before the schema change, the auth change or the payments flow goes in, a senior engineer reads it. An hour a week that prevents the rewrite.
How it works
Start with one session; keep what is useful
No retainer required to begin. The first session produces something you can act on the same day.
- 01
Working session (90 min)
You share the project and the goal. We look at the product definition, the flows and the Supabase schema live, and leave you with the three things that would change the most.
- 02
Written plan
Within two days: the product one-pager, the design priorities, the schema and security fixes in order, and what each takes. Yours to run with or without us.
- 03
Build together (optional)
Weekly sessions or a fixed block of days: we design, you generate; we structure, you ship. The work happens in your Lovable project, so nothing is locked to us.
- 04
Review on call (optional)
A monthly arrangement for the senior eye before the changes that matter.
Development support
Build with a plan you can maintain
Get help turning product requirements into a coherent data model, usable screens and a manageable delivery plan. We help you assess when to keep building on Lovable and when custom development would serve the product better.
- Product
- Define user needs and priorities
- Design
- Map user journeys and screen behavior
- Architecture
- Review data relationships and permissions
- Delivery
- Break the work into reviewable changes
Is this the right page?
For founders who are staying on Lovable, and want it to work
This is for you when
- Lovable is the right tool for where you are, and you want to use it well
- The app has users or is about to, and the product has stopped getting sharper
- You are the whole team, or the team is you plus one
- You want a product manager, a designer or an architect for hours, not headcount
- You would like someone senior to look before the big changes go in
Not this page, when
- You have decided to leave Lovable. The migration page is the honest next read
- You need the risks fixed fast and the app hosted on your own domain. That is the two-week hardening sprint
- You want someone to build the whole thing for you. We do that too, on a different page
Questions
Getting help with a Lovable app
- Will you try to talk me into a migration?
- No. This page exists because many apps that look like they need a migration do not need one yet. If we think you do, we will say so once, with reasons, and then help you with whatever you decide.
- Do you work inside my Lovable project?
- Yes, with your invitation, in your project, so nothing depends on us afterward. Design work happens in Figma or directly in the project; schema work happens in your Supabase; the product one-pager is a document you own.
- Can you help with Supabase specifically: RLS, edge functions, auth?
- That is most of the architecture work. Policies written and tested on purpose, edge functions with input checks and a place to log, auth flows that handle the edge cases, and a schema that will not need a rewrite when you add teams or billing.
- I am not technical. Is this still for me?
- Especially. The product and design help assumes no code. The architecture and security work we explain in plain language and do with you, and the review-on-call arrangement exists precisely so a non-technical founder has a senior engineer to ask before the risky change.
- How is this priced?
- The first working session is a fixed price. Ongoing help is either weekly sessions or a block of days, agreed up front. Review on call is the Advisory tier of the fractional CTO arrangement. Everything else is quoted on the call; nothing hourly by surprise.
- What if the app is already in trouble: security findings, customers complaining?
- Run the free audit first and send us the score. If the findings are urgent, the two-week hardening sprint fixes them; then the development help makes sure they do not come back.
Other paths from here
- The free production-readiness auditAbout a minute, from outside. Bring the score to the session.
- Fix one problemSomething specific broken? One named problem, quoted after a call, usually inside 48 hours.
- Lovable migrationWhen leaving is the right call: code, data and domain in your hands.
- MVP hardening sprintTwo weeks to fix the risks, fixed scope, app keeps running.
- Product design & UXThe design practice behind the sessions.
- Fractional CTOReview on call is its Advisory tier: a senior engineer on hand before the risky change.
- Project cost calculatorIf it turns into a build: a range in five minutes.
- Insights on startups & MVPsGuides on building, validating and scaling a first product.
From the products we build
Free tools and guides from software we built and run ourselves.
- serverinspector.comUptime, SSL and domain monitoring for Lovable appsWhat to watch once a Lovable app has real users: the app, its API, its domain and its certificate.Read it
- pigeonatlas.comPassword reset emails going to spam: the five checks that usually fix itIn the order they most often turn out to be the cause, each one runnable in about a minute.Read it
Next step
Ninety minutes, three things to change, and no pitch to leave Lovable.
Book a working session. Bring the project, the goal and, if you have run it, the audit score.
