# Lovable 73 Hacker News commenters recommended Lovable and 77 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Lets people without coding experience turn ideas into working apps quickly, with hosting, login and payments included. Critics warn that generated apps can have security and maintenance problems. ## Why people recommend it - Lets non-developers build software (6 comments): "It serves a market of non technical people that want to build apps and websites without having to use something horrible like Wordpress." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288541)) "You want a tool that's specifically aimed at people who want to build software but don't know the first thing about how to do it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166393)) "enabling people who don't have software engineering or code writing experience to actually develop software is a value in itself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356860)) - Fast from idea to working app (6 comments): "Lovable is the fastest way to get a log-in system and database, so a great option for a true MVP." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279491)) "It's so much better than Codex/ClaudeCode and producing a fully working application quickly." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283268)) "It really works -- 1200 customers are now vibe coding daily and using their SaaS a LOT more." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603010)) - Built-in publishing, domain and payments (2 comments): "it's the easiest way to do everything from publish, custom domain, payment, backend deployment, email" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301021)) "Lovable is easier to do everything from publish, custom domain, payment" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301038)) - Cleaner code than rival builders (2 comments): "lovable seems to be more precise about the code itself: just cleaner even over several iterations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808382)) "I get much better outcome from Lovable than Replit using same prompts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551024)) ## What people warn about - Security and backend weaknesses (3 comments): "Both the free and paid tiers of lovable don't charge for security fixes, and before you can publish it requests you run security audits." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359345)) "they tend to build stuff with some botched backend and you'll get to scaling issues, security issues and who knows what else" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024545)) "Lovable is marketed to non developers, so their core users wouldn't understand a security flow if it flashed red." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183400)) - Hard to maintain and debug (2 comments): "If you don't understand what you have the LLMs actually build, then there is no way you can maintain it or debug it if something goes wrong" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807942)) "No-code builders are great for the first version but start fighting you when you need custom logic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203822)) - Lock-in to proprietary platform (2 comments): "tools-outside-ai-inside platforms like Lovable, Base44 and Replit which don't leave as much flexibility in terms of swapping out tooling" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595118)) "vibe coding platforms like lovable, which contain an unavoidable proprietary infrastructure component" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855000)) - Expensive builds and unclear moat (3 comments): "once you cross a certain point with your app-building, it simply becomes too expensive, and complex to continue build on manually" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282797)) "what's the moat for lovable? you can already directly prompt these models to build you a full fledged app" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279712)) "Instead of employing an engineer for a year we burned an obscene amount of resources to generate code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790680)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Replit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/replit.md): 51 recommend - [Bolt.new](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bolt.md): 20 recommend - [v0 by Vercel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/v0.md): 19 recommend - [Sites in ChatGPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sites-in-chatgpt.md): 17 recommend - [Glaze by Raycast](https://hackerapproved.com/p/glaze.md): 16 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://lovable.dev/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Lovable", https://hackerapproved.com/p/lovable/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).