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For apps built with Lovable, Replit, Bolt, v0 or Claude: getting them deployed, keeping data safe, and what the builder never set up.
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What Is Vercel? What It Does, What It Costs You, and When to Use Something Else
Vercel is a hosting platform built around frontend frameworks, especially Next.js: push to GitHub and your site is live. What it actually does, what serverless functions mean for your app, where the limits are, and when a regular server is a better fit.
What Is Lovable? How the AI App Builder Works and Where It Stops
Lovable turns a chat description into a working web app: a React frontend, usually backed by Supabase for login and data. What it builds, what you actually own, what it costs to keep running, and the jobs you'll still need to do yourself.
What Is an MVP? How to Build the Smallest App That Teaches You Something
An MVP is the smallest version of your product that lets real people try it and tells you whether the idea works. What belongs in one, what to leave out, examples, and why AI app builders make it easy to build too much.
How to Validate Your App Idea Before You Build It
Building is cheap now; building the wrong thing is still expensive. Five ways to test an app idea in days rather than months — conversations, a landing page, pre-sales, a manual concierge version — and the signals that mean keep going or stop.
Does Your App Need Terms of Service? What to Include
Terms of service aren't usually required by law, but they're how you limit liability, set rules, handle payments and refunds, and shut down abusive accounts. When you need them, what sections matter, how to get users to agree properly, and the mistakes to avoid.
Stripe Payment Links vs Checkout vs Elements: Which Do You Need?
Stripe offers three ways to take payments, from zero code to fully custom. Payment Links need no code, Checkout is a hosted page you create from your server, and Elements embeds payment fields in your own UI. What each can do, and how to pick.
Lovable vs Bolt vs v0: Which AI App Builder Fits Your Project?
Three AI app builders, three different bets. Lovable builds full apps with a backend for non-developers, Bolt runs a whole dev environment in your browser, and v0 is strongest at Next.js and UI. What each produces, where each struggles, and how to choose.
How to Get Your First 100 Users (Without an Ad Budget)
Launching doesn't bring users; going where they already are does. Practical ways to find your first 100 users — direct outreach, communities, launch sites, content, and your own network — and how to keep the ones you get.
Do You Need a Cookie Banner? A Plain-English Guide for Small Apps
Cookie banners are required when you set non-essential cookies or trackers for EU and UK visitors — not for every cookie. What counts as essential, when you need consent, what a compliant banner must do, and how to avoid needing one at all.
Claude Code for Non-Developers: A Gentle Start
You don't need to be a programmer to get real work out of Claude Code. What it can do for founders, designers, marketers and analysts, the minimum terminal you need, safe habits, good first tasks, and when to ask a developer for help.
How to Build a Landing Page That Gets Sign-Ups
A landing page has one job: get the visitor to take one action. The sections that work, how to write a headline that says what the product does, where to put the sign-up form, what to measure, and the technical basics that stop it looking broken when shared.
Who Owns AI-Generated Code? Copyright, Licences, and What It Means for Your App
If an AI wrote your app's code, who owns it? What AI providers' terms say, why copyright law cares about human authorship, the risk of code that resembles open-source projects, and practical steps to protect a product built with AI.
What Is Vite? The Build Tool Behind Lovable and Bolt Apps, Explained
Vite is the tool that runs your React app during development and bundles it for production. What Vite does, what npm run dev and npm run build actually produce, why VITE_ environment variables are public, and how to deploy the dist folder.
What Is Tailwind CSS? Why Every AI-Built App Seems to Use It
Tailwind CSS styles your app with small utility classes written straight in the HTML. What Tailwind is, how it differs from normal CSS and Bootstrap, why AI tools love it, what changed in Tailwind v4, and how to read those long class lists.
What Is Supabase? A Beginner's Guide to the Backend Behind Many AI-Built Apps
Supabase gives your app a Postgres database, logins, file storage and serverless functions from one dashboard. What each part does, how the publishable and secret keys work, why row-level security matters, free-plan limits, and when to use something else.
What Is shadcn/ui? The Component Collection Behind Lovable and v0 Apps
shadcn/ui isn't a normal component library — it copies component code into your project so you own it. What shadcn/ui is, how the CLI works, what's in a components/ui folder, why AI builders use it, and how to customise and update it.
How to Turn Your Web App Into a Mobile App (Without Rebuilding It)
Three realistic paths from a web app to a phone app: make it a PWA, wrap it with Capacitor for the App Store and Google Play, or rebuild with React Native. Costs, what Apple rejects, what you need (yes, a Mac), and how to choose.
Stripe vs Paddle vs Lemon Squeezy: Which Should You Use to Get Paid?
The real difference between Stripe and Paddle or Lemon Squeezy is who handles sales tax: you, or a merchant of record. What a merchant of record is, fees compared, Stripe Managed Payments, and how to choose for a SaaS or digital product.
The OWASP Top 10 (2025) Explained for Beginners and App Builders
The OWASP Top 10 is the most widely used list of web application security risks. All ten 2025 categories in plain English — from broken access control to supply chain failures — with what each looks like in an AI-built app and how to prevent it.
What Is IDOR? The Security Bug Where Users Can See Each Other's Data
IDOR (insecure direct object reference) is when changing an ID in a URL shows you someone else's data. How it happens, why it's the most common serious bug in AI-built apps, how to test for it in five minutes, and the one-line habit that prevents it.
How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website (With or Without a Backend)
Four ways to make a contact form actually deliver messages — form services, your host's built-in forms, Google Forms, and your own backend route — plus how to stop spam and why you should never put an email API key in frontend code.
Claude Code Tutorial for Beginners: Build Your First App, Step by Step
A start-to-finish Claude Code tutorial for complete beginners: set up a project folder, write a CLAUDE.md, plan before building, review changes, run the app, fix errors, commit with git, and avoid the mistakes most first-timers make.
How to Add a CAPTCHA to Your Forms (Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha)
Stop bots spamming your signup, login and contact forms. How modern CAPTCHAs work, Turnstile vs reCAPTCHA vs hCaptcha, a working Cloudflare Turnstile example with the server-side check most tutorials forget, and when a CAPTCHA isn't the right tool.
How to Add an AI Chatbot to Your App (Without Leaking Your API Key)
A beginner-friendly guide to adding an AI chat feature: the safe architecture, a working Next.js backend route that streams Claude's replies, the frontend code to display them, and the limits, costs and abuse protection you need before launch.