Help with your Lovable app

Lovable projects are typically a React and TypeScript front end, often with Supabase handling the database, sign-in and server functions. That is a reasonable stack for a real product. The problems below come up in apps built this way, and most of them can be fixed without starting over.

Where Lovable apps get stuck

The same bug keeps coming back

You ask for a fix, something else breaks, and a few prompts later the first bug returns. At that point more prompting tends to make the code harder to follow. Someone needs to find the actual cause. Our guide to breaking the loop covers what you can try yourself first.

Users can see data that isn't theirs

In Supabase, Row Level Security decides who can read and change each row. If a table has RLS switched off, or a policy that allows any signed-in user, the app can look fine while exposing other people's data. Check every table, including ones added late in the project.

Sign-in breaks on your own domain

Moving from the preview address to a custom domain means updating the site URL and redirect URLs in Supabase, and in any OAuth provider such as Google. Miss one and password resets, email confirmations or social sign-in send people to the wrong place.

Payments work in test mode only

A Stripe checkout that works in test mode is the start. A live product also needs a webhook that updates your database, checks Stripe's signature, and handles cancellations, failed renewals and refunds.

A secret key ended up in the browser

Anything in the front end is visible to anyone who opens the developer tools. The Supabase anon key is designed to be public, provided your RLS policies are right. The service role key and secret keys for Stripe, OpenAI or email providers must stay in server-side code, such as a Supabase Edge Function.

You want to work on it outside Lovable

Lovable can connect a project to a GitHub repository. Once the code is there, you or anyone you hire can work on it with other tools, run it locally, and deploy it elsewhere if you want to.

How we help

We read the code, try the app as a new user would, and tell you what we'd fix before launch and what can wait. Then we agree a fixed scope and price and do the work in your repository. If you want to keep editing in Lovable afterwards, tell us, and we'll work in a way that keeps that possible. More about how we work.

Smarter Foundry is independent and not affiliated with Lovable.