Guides: prototype to production, in practice.
Everything we know about taking AI-built and no-code prototypes to production, written the way we explain it on calls. Each guide is reviewed by the team member who owns that domain before it ships.
Everything we know about taking AI-built and no-code prototypes to production, written the way we explain it on calls. Each guide is reviewed by the team member who owns that domain before it ships.
Review AI-generated code like a stranger's pull request: assume nothing works until you have checked it. The five checks that catch what AI gets wrong, auth on the server, access control, error handling, secrets, and a spend cap, with what to grep for and the question to ask of every change.
Read the guide → Building with AI · October 19, 2026Tutorials teach the happy path. A real project breaks on the five gaps they skip: state that has to survive a refresh, sign-in enforced on the server, access control that keeps one user out of another's data, config that moves to the server, and errors you didn't cause. What each gap is, and what to learn to close it.
Read the guide → Building with AI · October 12, 2026The shortest honest path for a beginner, in order: pin the smallest version that does one real thing, build one slice, test it with five real people, harden the three parts that always bite (sign-in, data rules, backups), then deploy. The numbered steps, which AI tool to start with, and the first mistakes to avoid.
Read the guide → Building with AI · October 5, 2026Vibe coding means describing what you want and letting an AI write the code without reading it. It gets you a working prototype fast and stops at the same four walls: auth, data permissions, edge cases, and spend it can't see. What it's good at, a real runaway-bill example, and what to do when you hit the wall.
Read the guide → Building with AI · October 2, 2026You can't code and you have an idea. Your four real options are an AI builder, a no-code platform, hiring a studio, or a hybrid. A side-by-side of what each gets you, where AI builders and no-code platforms stall (auth, data permissions, scale, ownership), and how to pick by your idea and budget.
Read the guide → Building with AI · September 22, 2026The choice isn't price, it's who owns the risk when the demo meets real users, real money and real data. What each path costs, where each one breaks first, the total cost including the rebuild many AI-built apps need, and how to decide.
Read the guide → Building with AI · September 14, 2026You can wire an AI agent to draft and schedule posts in an afternoon. What breaks later: brand-voice drift, a flagged or rate-limited account, a platform API that changes under you, and no spend cap. What AI owns, what needs a person, and the guardrails.
Read the guide → Prototype to production · September 9, 2026Base44 gets you a working app in a weekend, then a real customer arrives and it breaks. What the tool gets right, where it fails with real users and data, the honest line where a rebuild is worth it, and how we turn it into software you own (from ₪12,000).
Read the guide → Building with AI · September 7, 2026The cause is almost never the model. It's the layer around it: broken integrations, expired tokens, missing permissions, no spend cap, and the math where a 95% step becomes a 36% workflow over 20 steps. The failure modes and the boring fixes.
Read the guide → Building with AI · September 6, 2026The real paths from idea to a live product, whether you're building an app, an AI agent or an automation: what AI actually does for you, the four stages from idea to maintenance, and why the working demo is the easy 10% and production the expensive 90%.
Read the guide → AI engine · August 31, 2026What a RAG engine over your data actually does, when it beats fine-tuning, how per-tenant isolation keeps one client's records out of another's answers, and what it costs to run.
Read the guide → Self-hosting · August 17, 2026Cost, control, risk and maintenance side by side with real numbers: a $4/mo server plus your time against a roughly $45/mo managed stack, an hour of upkeep a week, and who should not self-host.
Read the guide → Self-hosting · August 16, 2026What running your own infrastructure actually demands: backups, monitoring, deploys and security patching you own, the real cost beyond the server bill, and when a managed platform is the smarter call.
Read the guide → From scratch · August 10, 2026The three real paths in 2026 (drive an AI builder, hire a studio, or a hybrid), what it really costs (from ₪12,000), honest timelines, and the production work a prompt never covers.
Read the guide → Checklist · August 3, 2026Six yes/no checks across ownership, backups, row-level security, spend limits, environments and monitoring. Answer one "no" and you're not ready yet, plus when staying on the builder is the right call.
Read the guide → Migration · July 30, 2026What the export actually gives you, what stays behind on the platform, the six rebuild steps in the order they have to happen, and real timelines and prices for the move.
Read the guide → Pricing · July 16, 2026Clear starting prices by product (websites from ₪4,500, web apps from ₪12,000, applications from ₪25,000), what the price includes, what's billed separately, and how the 40/30/30 payment split works.
Read the guide → Ownership · July 6, 2026What Lovable, Bolt and v0 export actually includes, what ownership means legally, and five checks that tell you whether you own a product or rent one.
Read the guide → Security · July 3, 2026Browser-only permissions, secrets within reach of the client, automation with no spending limits, and no isolation between clients. What each hole costs and how it gets closed.
Read the guide → Complete guide · July 2, 2026What it takes to turn a working Lovable prototype into software you own: the security holes to close first, who owns the code, real costs and timelines, and the migration path we use on every project.
Read the guide →Coming next: when to trust AI-generated code, and when to throw it out.