For founders building with AI
You built a product with a coding agent and you are not an engineer. These pages answer the questions that come next, in plain words. Each one ends with how we would help, and with a two-minute check of your own app.
When your platform changes the rules
- Base44 can train AI on your app data. What do I do now?What Base44's June 2026 terms say about training and your content, what it means for your app and your customers, your options including staying, and how to move to an account you own.
- Lovable can train AI on my prompts and code unless I opt out. What should I do?What Lovable's September 2026 privacy policy says about training on Free and Pro projects, where the opt-out is, what is excluded, and when moving your code and data to your own accounts is worth it.
- My Lovable app paused because the workspace ran out of credits. What changed, and what do I do?Why a live Lovable app stops reading and writing data when credits hit zero since the June 2026 billing change, what to do in the next hour, and how to move the backend to an account you own.
- Replit shut down the old shared database. My app is down or missing data. What now?What Replit shut down on June 8, 2026, how to tell if your published app was using a shared or legacy Neon database, how to recover, and how to put the database in an account you own.
- Lovable's April 2026 incident: was my project exposed, and what do I do?What Lovable said happened between February 3 and April 20, 2026, which projects were affected, what to check and rotate today, and when moving your code and data to your own accounts is the right answer.
When every fix breaks something else
- Is my AI-built app really finished?How to tell which parts of an app built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor or Claude Code are real, which are only screens, and which are placeholders, without reading code.
- My Lovable app keeps breakingWhy a Lovable app breaks after each change, what to check yourself today, what Lovable's own tools cover, and when to bring someone in.
- Every fix breaks something elseWhy fixing one thing in an AI-built app breaks another, how to tell a structure problem from a bad prompt, and the habits that stop the cycle this week.
- I'm stuck in a test-and-fix loop with my AI-built appWhy AI coding tools loop between testing and fixing for days, and how to end it with a written spec and tests the agent cannot talk its way past.
- My app's AI feature got worse after an update. What happened?Why an AI feature gives worse answers after a prompt change or a model update, how to find which change did it, and how evals catch it next time.
Moving it off the tool you built it with
- How do I get my Claude Code app off my laptop?What must exist before an app Claude Code built on your laptop can run for other people: a repository, host, database, secrets, domain, backups and alerts.
- How do I host my Lovable app myself?How to export Lovable code to GitHub, deploy the app to Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare, migrate Lovable Cloud to Supabase, and what breaks on the way.
- Moving your app off ReplitHow to move an app off Replit without losing data: what exports and what does not, the safe order, and what the new home needs before you switch.
- My Replit app is down. What do I do?How to tell a Replit outage from a problem with your own deployment, what each error means, how to get the app serving again, and how to stop it happening.
- Is my Bolt app ready for real customers?What Publish in Bolt does and does not do, the checks a founder can run before strangers pay, and what to set up so a fix stays fixed.
- How do I leave Base44 and take my app and my data with me?What a Base44 export contains, what stays behind, what to read in the terms before you decide, and the order to move in so customers do not notice.
Security and customer data
- Is my vibe-coded app secure?Security for a Lovable, Bolt, Replit or Cursor app is nine areas, not one test. What goes wrong in each, how a founder checks it, and who fixes it.
- My customers can see each other's data. How do I fix it?The seven ways an AI-built app shows one customer another's records, how to confirm each with two accounts, and the two fixes that keep it fixed.
- My test app and my live app share a database. What do I do?How to tell whether your test copy writes to your customers' data, why it happens on Replit, Lovable and Base44, and how to give it its own database.
Before real customers show up
- I have an idea and no technical background. Can I build it with AI?What a non-technical founder can build with Lovable, Bolt or Claude Code, what to decide before the first prompt, and the setup that keeps the work yours.
- What do I need in place before my first paying customer?What to have ready before someone pays for an app you built with AI: separate data, server-checked payments, a tested backup, alerts and a contact address.
- What happens to my AI-built app when ten thousand users show up?What breaks first in a Lovable, Bolt, Replit or Claude Code app when real traffic arrives, how to find out before it happens, and what you can check today.
- How do I get my AI-built app into the App Store?What Apple and Google check when a Lovable, Bolt or Replit app is submitted, where AI-built apps usually fail review, and what to prepare first.
- Apple rejected my AI-built app. What now?What Apple's rejection under guideline 4.2, 2.1 or 4.3 means for an app built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Base44 or Rork, how to fix and resubmit, when to appeal, and Google Play.
- Stripe is not working in my Lovable app. What do I check?Why Stripe works in the Lovable preview and fails live, why a Lovable Stripe webhook stops working, why cancelled customers keep access, and how to check it all in Stripe without code.
- What does it cost to run an app I built with AI?Hosting, database, AI model calls, payments and the person who keeps it running: real 2026 numbers for an app built with Lovable, Replit or Claude Code.
Who to work with
- Do I need a fractional CTO for the app I built with AI?What a fractional CTO costs in 2026, what one does and does not do for an app built with AI, and what to buy instead when you need hands, not strategy.
- Should I find a technical cofounder or pay a technical partner?A cofounder costs about half the company; a paid partner costs cash and can leave. When each is right for a founder whose AI-built product already works.
- Do I need an app rescue, or someone who stays?Rescue shops fix the bug you can see for a fixed price. A partner keeps the app running after. Published 2026 prices and three questions that decide it.
- Who do I hire to fix the app I built with AI?Freelancer, agency, rescue shop, fractional CTO or partner: 2026 rates, what to send before a quote, and questions that find real production experience.
Start with a call
Thirty minutes, free. Tell us what you are building and where it hurts. You leave with a clear next step, whether or not it involves us.
Looking for the engineering guides on running AI agents in production? They are here.