Going Past the Vibes: How to Build Real Apps
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Claims building 500+ production apps and surviving 37,385 edits backs a workflow that stops re‑prompting and uses concrete features: skills as reusable instruction files, auto‑generated design systems from an existing site, text edits are free and visual edits via annotation, managed secrets plus free security scans on every code change, built‑in storage/database/auth, drafts with parallel agents and automatic merges, background monitoring that finds bugs, and the ability to build your own MCP in Lovable and drive it from Claude.
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- 0:00Going Past the Vibes - Building Real Apps, Not Demos
- 2:10Speaker Intro - Lazar Jovanovic, Vibe Coding Engineer at Lovable
- 3:1237,385 Edits Later: Why He Stopped Calling It Vibe Coding
- 4:13W - Write a Skill Once Instead of Re-Prompting Every Time
- 5:15Building and Invoking Skills Inside Lovable
- 7:17A - Stop Describing Visual Changes in Three Paragraphs
- 8:21Annotate, Draw and Send: Visual Edits From a Screenshot
- 9:22Text Edits Are Free - Zero Credits Used
- 9:53Y - Design Systems as a Source of Truth Against AI Slop
- 10:54Generating a Brand-Accurate Design System From Your Own Site
- 12:26P - Project Knowledge and Memory Instead of Re-Pasting Context
- 13:27The "Say Back to Me" Trick for Confirming Knowledge Is Being Used
- 15:00A - API Keys Pasted Into Files: Managed Secrets and Connectors
- 17:04Free Security Scans on Every Code Change
- 17:34S - Storage, Database, AI Gateway and Social Auth Out of the Box
- 20:40T - Editing in Production: Drafts, Parallel Agents and Merges
- 23:14Lovable Everywhere via MCP - Driving It From Claude
- 25:17Turning Your Own App Into an MCP Server
- 27:51Background Monitoring That Finds Bugs While You Sleep
- 29:21E - Enterprise Trust, PII Detection and Workspace Controls
- 31:25S - After You Ship: Domains, Payments, Email, SEO, Analytics
- 34:28Way Past Vibes - Build Your Own Version
- 35:58Q&A: The Hardest Thing to Vibe Code Is Knowing What to Describe
- 38:04Security Strategy: Just Run the Free Scans
- 39:42Vibe Coding in 2027: Engineering as a Natural Language Movement
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