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Your Lovable site isn't on Google yet? The five things that actually block it

The popular theory says Google sees a blank page. For a site Lovable hosts, Lovable's own docs say otherwise. Here's which of five real causes is yours, how to check each one in Search Console, and how long Google itself says to wait.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 13 min

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Every new feature breaks something else? Fix the technical debt in your AI-built app

Your app worked last week. Now each change breaks two other things. That's technical debt, a term its inventor says people often misread. What he meant, what two studies found about AI-written code, and a seven-step cleanup order.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 9 min

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Supabase project paused? Every free tier limit, and what Pro really costs in 2026

Your vibe-coded app went quiet for a week and now it won't load. Here is every Supabase Free limit, the exact thing that breaks when you cross each one, and the real monthly bill once you upgrade.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 9 min

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Why is Replit so expensive? How Agent's effort pricing bills you, and the cap to set first

Your Replit bill jumped after a few prompts and you can't see why. Replit's own docs explain it: Agent charges by effort, and big projects and long chats cost more per message. What a checkpoint costs, what your credits cover, what hosting adds, and the spending cap every vibe coder should set before the next prompt.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 10 min

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'Blocked by CORS policy' in Lovable, Bolt or Cursor? Fix it on the server

That red console error means your browser stopped your own app from reading a reply. What CORS actually is, why the quick "allow everything" fixes backfire, and the right fix for Supabase functions and Next.js.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 9 min

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AI broke your app? How to undo it in Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, Claude Code and v0

Every vibe coding tool has an undo button, and each one lives somewhere different. Where to find it in six tools, what it brings back, and the catch most people learn too late: it rewinds your code, not your data. Plus the one undo that works everywhere.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 11 min

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Your Vite app says undefined on Vercel? The variable missed the build

You pasted the key into Vercel or Netlify, the dashboard shows it, and the live app still reads undefined. Vite writes those values into your code when it builds, so the fix is a prefix and a redeploy. Plus the part nobody mentions: everything named VITE_ is public.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 9 min

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Your Lovable, Bolt or Replit app isn't in the App Store yet: what it costs to get there

Apple charges $99 a year, Google $25 once, and Expo's build service has a free tier. What each vibe coding tool actually hands you, and the Google Play wait nobody mentions, from the price pages themselves.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 7 min

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Connected your domain to Lovable or Vercel and it still won't load? The fix order

Your app works on its preview link, but your own domain shows nothing, the old site, or a scary security warning. It's almost always one of six DNS mistakes. Here's how to spot yours, from Lovable, Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare's own docs.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 10 min

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"Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch" after adding Google login? The two lists to fix

You added Sign in with Google and Google blocked the very first click. The error is a safety check, not a bug. Where the address has to match, why it must match exactly, and the fix for Supabase, localhost and preview links.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 12 min

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Your AI said "SSH in and check the logs." The 15 Linux commands that cover it

A plain-English map of the command line for vibe coders: what to type when the app is down, which commands only look, and the two you should read twice before pressing Enter.

Aliteq Team · 2h ago · 9 min

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Before you ship what Cursor or Lovable wrote: a 5-check code review for non-coders

The AI says it's done and the app runs. That tells you almost nothing about whether it's safe. Five checks, each a question you can ask or a screen you can open, on secrets, who's allowed in, user input, invented packages and errors.

Aliteq Team · 5d ago · 8 min

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"permission denied for table" in Supabase? From Oct 30, every new table needs a grant

Your vibe-coded app added a table and Supabase now answers with error 42501. A new table can be locked before Row Level Security even runs. On 30 October 2026 that becomes the rule for every existing project. The one safe fix, and the two popular fixes that open your data to anyone.

Aliteq Team · 6d ago · 8 min

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Google login sends your live app back to localhost? The Supabase setting that fixes it

Your app is deployed, Google sign-in works, and then the browser lands on localhost:3000 and shows nothing. Supabase did that on purpose. Why it happens, the one setting to change, and the short list that keeps www, previews and your laptop working.

Aliteq Team · 6d ago · 9 min

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Your vibe-coded app went down and nobody told you: the 5 boring reasons

Expired certificates, free-plan limits, paused databases, too many connections and no backup. None are glamorous, all are in the vendors' own docs, and one gave our own site error pages for days.

Aliteq Team · Oct 8 · 8 min

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Did your AI add GPL code to your app? What MIT, Apache, GPL and AGPL require

Your AI tool pulls in packages and writes code without ever showing you a license. Here is what the four common open-source licenses ask of you, what the US Copyright Office says about who owns AI-written code, and a four-step check before you go live.

Aliteq Team · Oct 6 · 8 min

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Your Lovable app works until you refresh, then Vercel says 404. The one-file fix

The home page loads, the buttons work, and then a refresh or a shared link lands on 404 NOT_FOUND. Your app isn't broken. The host is looking for a file that was never there. Here's why, and the fix for Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare, from their own docs.

Aliteq Team · Oct 6 · 10 min

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"Email rate limit exceeded" in Supabase? Its built-in email stops at 2 an hour

Your first real users try to sign up and Supabase answers with a 429. The built-in sender was never meant for production. What the limit counts, how to plug in your own sender (Resend, Postmark or Amazon SES), and the rate-limit settings to change after.

Aliteq Team · Oct 5 · 9 min

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Bots hammering your vibe-coded app, or a surprise API bill? The fix is a rate limit

A script can press your sign-up or AI button thousands of times, and you pay for each press. Where the limits already exist (Supabase Auth, Cloudflare), where they don't, and the spending cap that stops the bill.

Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 7 min

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“Vibe Coding” Has Become “Doomcoding”

Beginners know they're lost, and experts can read what the AI wrote. The people in trouble are in the middle: they can prompt an app into existence but can't read what came back. So they pull the lever again. Here's the loop, the evidence, and the way out.

Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 15 min

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Which vibe coding tool? Here's what each one says it is, in its own words.

Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Google AI Studio, Cursor, Claude Code and Antigravity all get lumped together. Their own documentation describes two different kinds of tool. A table of each one's own words, and two questions that narrow the choice.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min

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You typed a sentence into Lovable and an app appeared. Here's where your code, data and bill actually live.

Lovable describes itself as a platform that builds and deploys web apps from plain English. Its own docs say where the app is hosted, what the built-in backend is, where your code sits and how you pay. A plain-language tour, from the docs.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 6 min

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Google AI Studio will vibe code a full app for you. Two lines in its docs to read before you share it.

Google's own documentation uses the words "vibe code" for AI Studio's Build mode. It also says what happens to your API key when you deploy, and who can see your code when you share. Here's what it builds, and the checks Google's pages leave to you.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min

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Someone scanned 30,998 vibe-coded apps. Here's what the 57% "open Supabase" number really means.

A headline says more than half of vibe-coded apps leave their database open. The report behind it is more careful than the headline, and so is the number: what it measured, what it didn't, and the one check that matters for your app.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 8 min

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Spec first, then prompt: the one-page plan for when your AI keeps rewriting your app

GitHub says the fix for "it looks right but doesn't quite work" isn't a better prompt, it's a spec. Here's what spec-driven development means in plain words, and a one-page template you can use in any builder.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min

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Your Lovable app works. Should you move to Cursor or Claude Code?

Three tools get compared constantly, but they aren't three versions of the same thing. Here's what each one says it is in its own docs, the real decision hiding underneath, and when staying put is the right call.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min

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Your AI forgot how your app works an hour in. That's a context problem, and it's fixable.

It contradicts a decision from earlier, re-breaks something it fixed, renames things you never asked it to rename. It isn't being careless — it can't see the early part of the conversation anymore. Tap the meter, then fix it the way the pros do.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 7 min

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Is vibe coding dead? What Karpathy's "agentic engineering" means if you don't code

The man who coined "vibe coding" now calls it passé and has a new name for the grown-up version. Before you wonder whether what you're doing is wrong: here's what he actually said, in his own words, and what it changes for you.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 6 min

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Vibe coding or vibecoding? And the other words for building with AI in 2026

Two words or one? And what do "agentic engineering," "context engineering" and "spec-driven development" actually mean? A plain glossary of every AI-coding term in circulation, each with who coined it and when.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 6 min

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What is vibe coding? The 2025 word of the year, explained

You describe an app in plain English and an AI writes it — that's vibe coding, the term Collins named its 2025 Word of the Year. Here's where it came from, what it looks like in a tool like Lovable, and the one thing the definition quietly warns about.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 7 min

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Claude Code for vibe coders: what it does that Lovable and Bolt don't

In the US, people search "claude code" about ten times more than "vibe coding" — but if you've only used a visual builder, it's not obvious what it even is. Here's Claude Code explained for someone who started in Lovable.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 7 min

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Vibe coding vs agentic engineering: the difference is whether you read the code

"From vibe coding to agentic engineering" is one of the fastest-rising searches of 2026. The honest difference between the two terms is smaller — and more useful — than the jargon makes it sound.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 7 min

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The creator of Rails stopped writing code by hand. What "pencils down" means if you vibe code in Lovable.

In late September, DHH told a room of 1,200 developers that writing code by hand is now the exception. If you build apps by describing them to Lovable or Bolt, here's what actually changed for you — and what didn't.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 7 min

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You vibe-coded an app. Here's everything to check before real people use it.

You built it by describing it to Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit or v0 — the hard part's done. This is the map of the rest: understand what the AI built, fix the errors you'll Google, ship it so strangers can't break it, and handle the day a real customer shows up.

Aliteq Team · Oct 2 · 9 min

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A Buyer Asked if Your Lovable App Is SOC 2. What Your Platforms' Reports Don't Cover

You built it vibe coding on Lovable, Bolt, Replit or v0, with Supabase and Vercel underneath, and a security questionnaire just asked for SOC 2. Each platform's own report, how to get it, which plan it sits behind, whether it trains on your data, and the half of the audit that is still yours.

Aliteq Team · Sep 27 · 12 min

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Lovable asks "Stripe or Paddle?" Here's which to pick, and what each one does with your VAT

Lovable lets each project run one payment provider, and switching later leaves your subscribers behind. We read Lovable's payments docs on 27 September 2026 and worked out what each choice costs at $9, $29 and $99, who files your sales tax and VAT, and when to skip both and connect your own Stripe. Try your own price in the calculator.

Aliteq Team · Sep 27 · 10 min

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Your Supabase anon key is visible in the browser. Is that a problem?

Short version: the anon (publishable) key is meant to be public — as long as Row Level Security is on. The key that must never leak is the other one. Here's how to tell which you're looking at.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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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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Your app says "new row violates row-level security policy". Here's what it's protecting.

It's not a bug — it's your database refusing to let the wrong person write a row. Why the error shows up the moment security is on, and the right way to fix it (never "disable RLS").

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 6 min

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The 6 things to fix in your Replit app before anyone sees it

Before you share a Replit app, six things to check so strangers can't read each other's data or run up your bill — including the one backup check behind Replit's most infamous 2025 data-loss story.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 7 min