Are Lovable / Bolt good enough for real apps or just prototypes?

I’ve been testing all the popular AI app builders (Lovable, Bolt, etc.) and here’s the pattern I keep seeing:

Toy backends → They give you Supabase or some proprietary infra you can’t migrate away from. Looks fine for a weekend hackathon, but try scaling and you’re stuck.

Vendor lock-in → You don’t own the code. You’re at the mercy of their credits, their infra, their roadmap.

Customization walls → You can’t deeply extend. Want a specific API integration? Tough. Want to swap out their auth? Good luck.

They’re great for flashy demos, but when you try to build something real (internal tools, production apps, MVPs that need to survive beyond launch), you slam into the limits.

That’s why we built Solid → it generates actual React + Node.js + Postgres codebases that you 100% own. No lock-in, no “black box backend.”

You can deploy anywhere, extend however you want, and scale like a real engineering team would.

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Has anyone else run into these walls with Bolt/Lovable? How did you work around them?