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Your Lovable app got slow as the data grew. Three usual reasons.

It was snappy with ten rows and crawls with ten thousand. Almost always it's one of three things — a missing index, fetching everything then filtering in the browser, or no caching — and none needs you to read code.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Make this page work on phones": the one tag most prompts forget

Ninety percent of "it's tiny on mobile" is one missing tag. Here's "make this page work on phones" three ways, with the real code — from a lonely media query to a proper mobile-first layout.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Send a daily summary email": the prompt that avoids the spam list

A naive "send a daily email" loop fires at the wrong time, breaks on one bad address, and can email someone a hundred times. Here's the request three ways, with the real code, and the guards that keep you off spam lists.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Write the RLS policy for my users table": three prompts, three outcomes

Row Level Security is deny-by-default, so the danger isn't forgetting to lock a table — it's a lazy policy that quietly unlocks all of them. Here's the request three ways, with the real SQL each produced.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Add a Stripe checkout button": the prompt that leaks your secret key

The naive way to vibe-code a Stripe button puts your secret key in every visitor's browser. Here's the same request three ways, with the real code — and the one rule that separates a demo from a safe checkout.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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"Add login with Supabase": the same prompt, three ways

Every vibe coder types "add login with Supabase" and gets working code. Here's what changes when you ask for it vaguely, specifically, and with the guardrails spelled out — with the real code each version produced.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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The one file you must never commit — and the trap that ships secrets to the browser

Your app's keys live in labelled envelopes outside the code. Which envelopes the browser gets a copy of (VITE_, NEXT_PUBLIC_), where secret keys actually belong, and the .env file you keep out of git.

Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 6 min

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Your Lovable app might be showing everyone's data — one setting fixes it

The single database setting behind the biggest vibe-coded app leaks, shown as a who-can-see-what table you can toggle: data wide open, then locked to its owner. The policy your AI tool should be writing.

Aliteq Team · Sep 25 · 7 min