Migrating from Lovable to Replit - how well does it work, and any gotchas to look out for?

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I’ve got a potential client who vibe coded an app in Lovable (boo, hiss :blush:). It doesn’t work very well and he now realises he needs a pro to get it working. If this works, I may have found a way to get a few of these over to Replit. So all feedback welcome, so I can jump in and strip Lovable bare :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

I told him I will only do it if I can move it to Replit. He says it has a DB and file storage as well as connects to Stripe, but I’ve not looked any deeper so not sure of the dirty details.

Has anyone done a migration from Lovable to Replit? Anything I need to look out for? If any Replit team have internal thoughts then I welcome those too.

And if your response is “don’t touch it with a 10 foot pole” then please say so - I need to know if this is worth the effort, and how much to charge if I did.

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All feedback means this guy Steve.

My suggestions:

STRIP THEM BARE

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Get the dirty details. Get the dirt. Even if you plan on doing it despite the dirt. You gotta know what you’re about to be wrist deep into.

I think this is project based. Hard to tell without seeing it ourselves. You got 44 years of experience under the belt.

Just start migrating it and get them over here.

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Tell lovable to suck it.

If this was migrating from/ to the IC I’d tell you grab a longer pole. 10 feet ain’t ever gonna be long enough.

I mean. Whatttttt