Lovable is really a great tool for creating and deploying applications with relatively little effort.
It is super beginner friendly and this is why so many people love it.
Even with a basic prompt, it is possible to create a very nice user interface and easily add backend
functionalities with Supabase.
As you have noticed at the time of this recording, sometimes the AI model is not really smart enough
to be able to fix some issues on its own, but with a bit of targeted prompting and a good understanding
of the error, it's possible to get over such hiccups.
I hope you will not encounter such issues and that a lovable team will address this very soon.
Obviously, compared to a standalone IDE that is running locally, such as cursor, loveable is less
capable, but it is more user friendly and this is actually the target audience.
However, my main pain point is pricing.
The free plan is very limited.
It only offers five daily credits and this is okay I guess, but this is not really useful if you want
to fine tune things to your liking or encounter a lot of issues.
And even if you're looking at the paid plans, the Pro plan at $25 per month offers 100 credits.
So if you want more credits, we'll have, of course, to pay double that price, but 100 messages per
month?
This is not really a lot.
Now, I appreciate the lovable has created a pricing plan that is easy to understand.
So you easily understand you're sending a message and that is one credit less so that's super clear.
But if you want to build a more comprehensive app that's going to take more than 100 messages, I can
easily tell you that.
And what is interesting here is that if we compare this to cursor, for example, the difference becomes
obvious.
So cursor here has a monthly plan.
We're paying $20 per month.
We have 500 requests.
So 500 compared to 100.
And apart from this we also have unlimited slow requests.
So what slow requests are are still requests.
It just takes a bit longer to get a response.
So pretty much you have unlimited messages with just $20 per month, and if you go for the yearly plan,
that's even less.
So it's only $16 per month.
So from a loan that perspective, lovable isn't cheap, right?
So it has its target audience.
I think it is a great starting point for a web project, for people who are scared of looking into a
tool, such as cursor or windsurf, or other tools that need to be installed locally and to deal with
developer tools.
But due to the integration with GitLab, it is relatively easy to have access to your source code.
And you can take this project and you can kick start this project unlovable.
And then you can take the source code and take ownership over it, essentially, and also make changes
outside of low level if you need to.
So this has been lovable.
I hope you managed to build a useful project and that you understood better what this tool can do and
what this tool can do well.
Anyway, if you have more questions about lovable, I would love to hear them.
So drop your questions in the Q&A below this lecture.