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Notes from the build.

Playbooks, tool breakdowns, and founder stories on shipping real software with AI and no-code. New articles most weeks.

How to Build Your First App with Lovable: A Beginner Guide

A step by step walkthrough for building and publishing your first real app in Lovable, from the first prompt to login, a database, and a live URL.

How to Get Your First 100 Users for a New SaaS App

Practical, unglamorous ways to find your first 100 users for a new app, from personal outreach to communities, plus how to keep the ones you get.

When No-Code Hits Its Limits (and What to Do Next)

The signs that your no-code or AI-built app has outgrown its tools, and the practical options for what to do next without starting over from scratch.

Add Login, Stripe and Integrations to an Emergent App

How to add user accounts, Stripe payments, email and other services to an Emergent app, where API keys belong, and the checks I run myself before real users show up.

Lovable vs Bolt vs FlutterFlow: Which Should You Use?

An honest comparison of Lovable, Bolt, and FlutterFlow from someone who has built with them, covering what each is good at and where each one gets frustrating.

What is Vibe Coding and How It Speeds Up No-Code Builds

Learn how Vibe Coding cuts no-code build time and helps you ship faster with practical steps you can use today.

How to Avoid Overbuilding Your MVP: What to Cut First

AI tools make it easy to keep adding features. Here is how I decide what goes into a first version, what gets cut, and how to tell when you are overbuilding.

How to Validate a SaaS Idea Before You Build Anything

A practical process for testing whether a SaaS idea is worth building, using conversations, a one page site, and a request for money before you write a prompt.

Supabase Basics for Non-Developers: Tables, Auth and RLS

A plain-English guide to the three Supabase pieces every AI-built app depends on: tables, authentication and row level security, plus the key mistakes that leak data.

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