Building apps with Lovable
Lovable builds full-stack web apps from plain-language prompts - describe what you want and it generates the interface, wires up a database and login, and publishes it to a live URL. This hands-on course takes you from your first prompt to a published app with real data and accounts: prompting well, iterating by chat and visual edits, adding a backend with Supabase, connecting APIs and secrets, publishing to a custom domain, debugging when it breaks, and knowing when to graduate to code.
26 min · 10 pages · practice task · quiz · part of Technical founder
Sponsor this courseWhat you will be able to do
Skills you add to your Herizon profile when you finish: Lovable, AI App Development, Rapid Prototyping.
- A small web app of your own, live on a link you can share
- A database that keeps entries, and logins that keep each person to their own
- A way to write prompts that get what you meant
- A calm routine for when a change breaks the app
- A clear sense of when to bring in a developer
Who it is for
Time per page: 15 to 30 minutes Whole course: 3 to 4 hours (10 pages, at your own speed) This is for you if you are: - A founder who wants to test an idea this week - A jobseeker who wants a real project to show - An operator or marketer who needs a small internal tool - Changing career and curious about building You need no programming experience. It helps to think clearly about what you want, because Lovable builds what you describe. ---
The situation you work through
Noora, a freelance photographer in Turku, builds one small booking web app in Lovable: a first prompt, small changes, a database with logins, a confirmation email and a published link.
Your practice task
Build one small web app of your own in Lovable: a form that saves entries to a database, with sign-in so each person sees only their own entries. Run the security review until it is clean, publish it, and test the live link from a private window as a new user. Submit the live link, your first prompt word for word, and three sentences on what the app does, what you fixed after testing, and your next step.
What is inside
- What Lovable is and when to use it
- Your first app from a prompt
- Prompting Lovable for good results
- Editing and iterating
- Adding a database and logins with Supabase
- Connecting APIs and handling secrets
and 4 more pages
Finish with a short quiz to earn your certificate.
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