Lovable Prompts for Building Apps Without Code
Lovable builds full apps from a chat: you describe what you want and it generates a working React/TypeScript frontend, wires up Supabase for data and auth, and hosts it. Because it produces a real app—not a toy—the quality tracks the quality of your brief. Vague prompts get generic CRUD; a tight, screen-by-screen spec gets something close to shippable. These prompts show how to brief Lovable like a product manager, not a wish.
Last updated · By the Prompt Orange team
Prompt examples you can copy & use
Scope the whole app first
“build me a CRM”
Too vague—AI has to guess what you want
“Build a lightweight CRM for a freelance designer. Core entities: Contacts (name, company, email, status) and Deals (title, contact, value, stage). Screens: a contacts list with search, a deal pipeline as a kanban board, and a simple dashboard with total pipeline value. Use Supabase for storage and auth. Start with the data model and the contacts list only—we'll add the rest after.”
Specific, clear, ready to use
Iterate one screen at a time
“make it better”
Too vague—AI has to guess what you want
“On the deal pipeline screen only: add drag-and-drop between stages, show the deal value on each card, and a total at the top of each column. Don't change the contacts screen or the data model. Show me the result before moving on.”
Specific, clear, ready to use
Wire up real data and auth
“add a login”
Too vague—AI has to guess what you want
“Add Supabase email auth so each user only sees their own contacts and deals. Add a user_id column to both tables, set row-level security so users can only read and write their own rows, and gate all screens behind login. Confirm the RLS policies with me before applying them.”
Specific, clear, ready to use
Fix a specific bug
“it's broken”
Too vague—AI has to guess what you want
“When I add a contact, it appears twice in the list until I refresh. Diagnose the cause (likely an optimistic-update plus refetch race), explain it in one sentence, and fix only that. Don't refactor the rest of the screen.”
Specific, clear, ready to use
Tips for using Lovable for building apps without code
Brief it like a product spec: entities, screens, and what each screen does—not just 'build an app'
Build one screen or feature per prompt; iterative beats one giant prompt
Define your data model early so later features have something consistent to build on
Review the Supabase row-level-security policies yourself before trusting them with user data
Lovable produces React/TypeScript plus Supabase—lean into that stack rather than fighting it