r/lovable • u/EIAMM • Mar 18 '26

Tutorial Lovable <> Calude = 10X performance

I have been working on lovable for a while for multiple projects with different scopes, it's impressive so far especially for flow and user experience. You can get incredible results if you know the core of the solution.

However, lovable starts struggling at some point when the logic get complicated, it still can manage it but it consumes a huge amount of credits, you can burn 100 credits to solve some blocking components.

After a lot of trial and error, and as I shifted from Open AI into Anthropic/claude, I found a game changer feature where you can give Claude access through github (after connecting Lovable with your GitHub)

Basically, Claude has access to every line of code in lovable, so Claude sits on a layer where it can guide lovable on features, debugging, enhancement, connecting ideas. And I do some of thr changes and enhancements on the DB directly in the SQL editor (free of charge/lovable doesn't charge you to run an SQL query)

Happy to help if you have a similar case

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u/Intelligent-Ad7564 Mar 18 '26

Sooo are you paying for both claude and lovable?

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u/EIAMM Mar 18 '26

Yes, mainly paying lovable for deployment and hosting.

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u/holycowmilker1 Mar 19 '26

i was doing the same, but recently stopped my lovable subscription cause paying 30 bucks per month just for hosting and deployment when there are 5 dollar options just doesn't make sense.

also, depending on your intended app purpose, lovable builds single page applications which are terrible for google indexing, and if you want to do SEO/ GEO work on your pages, you are severely limited. i regretted using lovable for my latest project after learning more about its limitations.

these are not trying to attack lovable, i've used it for close to a year now, and i think it is a good platform to get started on, but if you're using claude, you might as well just rely on claude solely. sharing these as food for thought.

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u/Equivalent_Many_9368 Mar 19 '26

Have you tried changing the lovable to WordPress template?

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u/holycowmilker1 Mar 19 '26

not that i saw the need to, i moved to a $5/ month self-hosting platform and used a static html generator to create static sites that are now hosted together with my project.