I loved Lovable. Here's what I build with now.

I'll say it first. I loved Lovable. For about a year it let me ship things I couldn't have shipped otherwise, and I'm grateful for that.

I don't use it anymore. Not out of anger. I just outgrew the need.

What changed

No-code tools put a friendly layer between you and the code. That layer is the product, and it's also the ceiling. Every time I wanted something it didn't plan for, I hit a wall. And the more I built, the more I realized how much of my work lived inside their system instead of mine.

Then I started working directly with Claude Code. I describe what I want in plain English, the same way I did in Lovable. The difference is what comes out. It's real code, in a real folder, on my own machine. I own all of it.

What I build now

iPhone apps. Mac apps. Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPad, Android, web apps. Software for clients. A complete operating system for my own business that I run from my phone. Even video games. None of it sits on a no-code platform.

My stack is simple. Claude for the thinking. Claude Code when something needs to be built. A host to put it on, a database to store it in, and nothing sitting in between me and the thing I'm making.

The honest part

This works because I know how to brief it. The brief does the job the friendly layer used to do. If you can't say what you want, Claude Code will build the wrong thing, very fast.

That's learnable. It's most of what I teach.