Moving from Lovable to Claude Code

When it is time

• You spend more credits fixing regressions than building features.
• You need something Lovable cannot see or change: your own database, a cron job, a server-side integration, a proper migration.
• A bug survived ten prompts. Someone needs to read the code.
• You want a second environment and a review step before changes reach customers.

What I set up

• GitHub as the source of truth, with Lovable still connected if you want it for UI work.
• The backend on your own Supabase or Postgres project, so Claude Code can run migrations and read logs.
• Claude Code on your machine with a project file (CLAUDE.md) that describes your app, its rules and its pitfalls — the context Lovable kept for itself.
• A deploy gate: Claude Code pushes to a branch, checks and a preview run, production only updates on a reviewed merge. A bad prompt cannot take your app down.
• A one-hour walkthrough: how to ask, how to check, how to roll back, and when to send it to me instead.

What you should expect

Claude Code is more capable and less forgiving than a builder: it will do exactly what you ask, including the wrong thing, and it works best with a codebase that is already tidy. That is why the move usually pairs with a cleanup pass first. After that, most non-technical builders are productive within a week — adding features, fixing copy, wiring integrations — and send me the genuinely hard problems: schema changes, security, performance, third-party APIs.

Questions