For Lovable.dev's Lovable
Stuck in Lovable? Press the dot.
Lovable turns prompts into apps. Relay turns the apps into things you can actually run.
When Lovable needs a person.
01
When the deploy doesn't go
The most common Lovable press: a build that runs in preview but won't ship. Environment variables, Vercel/Netlify config, custom domain DNS — a Relay engineer untangles it from the screen share.
02
When you need a real backend
Lovable handles a Supabase or Firebase wire-up beautifully — until the schema gets non-trivial. RLS policies, migrations, or moving off Supabase to Postgres on Neon is the moment to call a person.
03
When marketing wants a feature engineering didn't think about
Webhooks, Stripe, an analytics hookup, a Slack notification: most marketing-led builds need a five-minute integration that Lovable doesn't auto-generate. That's a press.
Common questions
- Can a Relay engineer take over my Lovable project?
- We don't take ownership of the project — your account stays yours. The engineer joins your screen, suggests changes you can apply in Lovable directly, and helps you ship.
- What if I need to migrate off Lovable?
- Common request. The engineer can mirror the project to a Next.js or Remix codebase and walk through the deploy on Vercel — typically a 30–90 minute session.
- Do you support custom-domain setup?
- Yes. DNS changes, Cloudflare proxy, www → apex redirect — the engineer joins, walks through it, and verifies it's resolving.
Related reading
- Field notes · 9 min readAnatomy of the handoff: what we learned shipping the first 1,000 sessionsA median match in seconds isn’t a marketing number; it’s a system constraint we engineered toward and missed by 16 seconds in the first month.
- Research · 17 min readWhen does an AI build want a person? A study of 4,200 stuck momentsWe logged every press in the first quarter of the private beta. Four patterns explain almost everything.
- Essay · 11 min readThe irreducibly human moment in softwareAn argument for why software engineering doesn’t shrink in the age of AI, it sharpens, and moves to a new place in the build.