Guides · Complete guide
Guides · Complete guide
Taking a Lovable prototype to production means rebuilding it as software you own: the code in your own GitHub repo, authorization enforced on the server, client data isolated in the database, backups, monitoring, and a deploy pipeline that doesn't depend on the builder. For a small system that typically costs ₪3K–18K and takes 2–4 weeks. Platforms with admin panels and AI engines take more, and this guide covers the whole path.
What this guide covers. Five chapters go deeper on each part of the move. This page is the map that connects them:
Prototypes break in production because the things a demo never tests are the things real users hit first: permissions, load, billing limits and recovery.
We keep finding the same holes in Lovable-generated apps. Permissions are decided at the user level, in the browser, with no server-side control over what a function is allowed to do. The app demos perfectly. It is also easily penetrable, because anyone who opens the developer console can reach more than they should.
Cost is the quieter failure. One client ran a fully automated website-building app that had no limit on how many jobs could run at once, no spending caps and no real stop switch. They left it unsupervised for one day and got an AI bill of over $1,000. The prototype worked. The guardrails didn't exist. The full breakdown of these holes is in security holes we keep finding in AI-generated apps.
Production-ready means six engineering domains are covered. Polishing one more feature doesn't get you there; closing all six does.
A system missing any one of the six fails in a way that surprises you later. To score your own app against all six, run the production-ready checklist. The security page describes the hardening practices in detail.
You should. From the first day of a migration, the code lives in a GitHub repo under your own account, and full ownership of the code and IP transfers to you on final payment. If your builder can't export code you can run anywhere, you don't own a product. You rent one. What each builder's export actually hands you, and the five checks we run, are in who owns the code your AI builder wrote. Owning the code is one half of the answer; owning the infrastructure it runs on is the other, and what full self-hosting demands in production is in self-hosted SaaS: what full ownership in production takes.
Every migration we run follows four milestones, each with its own sign-off and payment. The technical sequence inside those milestones, builder by builder, is in how to migrate off Lovable, Bolt or v0.
A small system runs 2–4 weeks, including penetration testing before deployment. Larger platforms run 2–5 months, depending on integrations and how much environment testing they need. We've delivered 15 production apps this way, with 2 more in progress. The full milestone breakdown is on the process page.
Pricing follows scope, not hours. Decouple & Stabilize, for taking a working system off Lovable onto solid ground, runs ₪3K–18K. Production Platform, with an admin panel, per-client areas and a RAG engine over your data, runs ₪35K–60K. Scalable Product, for many integrations and serious scale, starts at ₪80K.
Why we price by scope instead of hours, what each tier includes, and how the 40/30/30 payment split works are covered in what it costs to rebuild a no-code app for production. The full tier breakdown is on the pricing page, and the scope is fixed in writing before work starts. If you want a number for your specific system, get a written quote for the migration. It's valid for 14 days.
Fity is a WhatsApp-based AI bot that helps fitness coaches manage more trainees online. It arrived as one monolithic file that kept breaking: the app ran, but features failed constantly. We rebuilt it on their code base into a secured app with a proper backend, frontend and database, combining several LLM providers with full data separation.
A legal document-intelligence system arrived as an idea with no code at all, the kind of ground-up build covered in what it takes to build an app from scratch. It now runs on the client's own machine, reads their evidence database, and produces lawyer-grade response letters in Hebrew, each one verified through several gates before a human approves it.
A trading dashboard arrived as a design mockup made with AI. It now connects to brokerage APIs with hard risk controls, using only the indicators that showed a success rate above 80% across 20 years of market data, and went through three months of paper trading before touching a real account.
The about page has more on how we build. Anything beyond this level of detail stays under NDA.
Three things, and they are the three we get asked to justify.
We treat security as part of the build rather than a phase after it. Plenty of shops will hand you a working app carrying the same permission holes described above, because the app looks finished either way. Closing them before launch costs a fraction of what it costs after a breach.
We build for the size you are aiming at, not the size you are today. Code that holds fifty users and falls over at five thousand is a rewrite you end up paying for twice.
We are paid for our work, not for the products you need around it. Hosting, domains, model APIs and payment processing are billed by usage and are not part of our fee. Marking those up is easy money, and it quietly gives the builder a reason to prefer the expensive option.
Sometimes the honest answer is to stay where you are. An internal tool for your own team, a demo you are showing investors next week, a landing page, a weekend project: the builder is doing exactly its job, and a migration is money spent on a problem you do not have yet.
The line worth watching is the moment a real customer trusts the app with their data or their card. That is when the six domains stop being engineering hygiene and turn into your liability. If you are not sure which side of the line you are on, the production-ready checklist settles it in about ten minutes.
How can I be sure the product stays mine?
The repo is under your account from day one, and the code and IP transfer to you on final payment. There's no platform to be locked into afterwards.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes. Every delivery carries a 14–30 day bug-fix warranty, and if we run late through our own fault you're credited 5% per week, up to 25%. Both are in the contract.
How often do I get updates during the build?
Four milestones, each with its own sign-off. You approve progress at every stage instead of waiting for one big reveal.
Why is the price so high?
Because the quote covers the work a demo never shows. Rebuilding permissions on the server, isolating client data, migrations, backups, environments, and penetration testing before release are most of the effort and none of the visible surface. The price follows scope, it is fixed in writing before anything starts, and it does not move because we underestimated.
What if the project runs longer than agreed?
If the delay is ours, you are credited 5% of the fee per week, capped at 25%. If it comes from late materials, a change of scope or something outside both our hands, the dates shift by that much and we tell you in writing when it happens rather than at the end.
More of these, answered the way we answer them on calls, on the FAQ page.
A good place to start is scoring your own system against the six domains above. If it fails on two or more, send us what you have and you get back a written scope with a fixed price, valid for 14 days, naming what we build, what we leave out and what it costs.
Founder and main developer at Zyntari. Building apps and AI solutions since 2024; before that, 12 years in sales and client-portfolio management and co-founder of two companies. More about the team · LinkedIn