You described an app to Lovable or Base44, watched it appear like magic, opened it on your laptop and grinned. Then you loaded it on your phone over 4G in a car park, and it wheezed. Buttons lagged. The screen sat blank for a beat too long. Something that felt slick on desktop now feels…
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You built an app with AI: Lovable, Base44, Bolt, maybe v0 or Replit. It works, it looks the part, and you are rather chuffed with yourself. Then someone says the words that ruin your afternoon asking “Cool, so when’s it going in the App Store?” so you then ask “How much does it cost to…
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Subway Surfers made $2 billion. I vibe-coded my own local twist with Claude Code in one evening, then hit a wall a website can’t fix. Here’s the whole build, GitHub repo included.
You had your big idea on a Tuesday. By Thursday, Lovable (or Base44, or Bolt, or Cursor) had spat out a working app, and you sat there grinning at the screen like you’d just invented fire. It logs in, saves data, and even has a dark mode you didn’t ask for. Surely this vibe-coded project…
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You had the idea at 11pm, opened Lovable or Base44, typed a few sentences, and by midnight you had a working app! Genuinely magic! Then the next morning a slightly annoying question showed up and refused to leave: is this thing a website, an app, or a website wearing an app costume? And when you…
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You had a spare evening, a strong coffee, and a slightly wild idea (we’ve all been there!). Three hours later, Lovable (or Base44, or Bolt, or whichever vibe-coding tool you fell down a rabbit hole with) had handed you a working app. It looks great. It does the thing. You showed your partner and they…
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