#11 Behind the scenes of my vibecoding experiments, tips, tricks and use-cases that went live
Lessons fro vibecoding with Lovable, experiments that made it to prod and an open-source vibecoding app
🚀 Insight of the week: Vibecoding with Lovable
Last week, I spoke at a workshop in a closed founders’ community about vibecoding with Lovable, and how I’m using it alongside Cursor and n8n to prototype fast, visual, functional things.
For those who don’t know: Lovable is like a text-to-site playground. You describe what you want (“landing page for chatbot SaaS”) and it gives you editable code and a live preview. Super handy for fast iterations
🔗 You can connect it to:
GitHub, so you can keep editing your code, e.g. in Cursor
Supabase, to use as your database
Any external API, just by providing your API keys. FormSpark for creating forms, OpenAI for GenAI functionality, Eleven Labs to build voice interfaces, or chatbotly.co to add an AI assistant to your website
Any JS libraries. Ask ChatGPT about the best libraries for your task, go back to Lovable, write “use ChartJS for making the plots“ and your interface will effortlessly get better and code cleaner
Connect it to your own domain (if you’re on paid)
💭 Few tips from me:
Plan your task in ChatGPT before sending your prompt to Lovable (this will save you credits & bring better results)
Use Lovable chat functions to explore your codebase
Use code editor interface to do small fixes yourself, e.g. updating the text
Attach images as references to guide your design
👌 Real-world examples I showed:
A webinar landing page for our upcoming AI for LinkedIn webinar, with animations, quiz, chatbot widget, all mobile-friendly out of the box. Try it here:
A quiz-as-lead-magnet with logic-based results and collecting emails at the end (will post it soon on LinkedIn). Pro tip: create interactive app in Lovable and embed it on your main website using iframe
Data dashboards for internal use: connect your Google Sheets to lovable and build dashboards and reports on the fly, to be used internally or shared with your clients
N8N automations triggered from Lovable, still experimental, but kind of exciting
An MVP voice assistant (OpenAI + Eleven Labs), technically works, but sounds rough. Check this youtube video here
💡 Bonus hack: mix and match different AI tools to get best of all worlds, know when to use ChatGPT, when Lovable and when to move to Cursor
P.S. Anyone else is doing crazy experiments with vibecoding tools? What is your favourite use-case?
🔧 AI tool of the week: bolt.diy
Similar to Lovable, bolt.diy is a vibe-coding software. The big difference: it’s an open-source library that you can install on your laptop to run vibe-coding experiments without paying a monthly subscription.
💚 What’s special?
You can connect it to any GPT model you like, and have control over it
Instead of projects like in Lovable, bolt.diy has chat-like interface, which offers a different thinking framework of interacting with vibe coding software
While I am still running my experiments comparing lovable and bolt, one of my colleagues swears by bolt.diy (which he claims is better than their paid bolt.new app), so I think it’s something to explore.
🔗 Install bolt.diy from here: https://github.com/stackblitz-labs/bolt.diy
🚀 That’s a wrap for this week!
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Hey, I’m Lena Shakurova, Conversational AI advisor, founder of ParsLabs and Chatbotly. Since 2018, we help teams create conversational AI experiences people actually want to talk to, through 1-on-1 consultations, in-house team trainings and custom chatbot development.
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Good read Lena! I must say, Vibe coding and Vibe marketing co hand in hand. What's your take on Replit ?