Vibe Coder · MVP
You can describe what you want. The right AI-coding stack closes the gap between idea and live URL.
Claude Code or Cursor as your editor, Lovable for the UI scaffold when you need a head start, Vercel for hosting, Supabase for the database + auth. Whole stack runs on free tiers until you have real users.
Vibe coding only works if the friction between 'I want this' and 'it's running on the internet' is close to zero. The tools below remove most of the boring parts: typing boilerplate, configuring CSS, wiring up auth, deploying. What's left is product decisions — which is what should take your time.
Claude Code is the right pick if you live in the terminal and want an agent that runs your project end-to-end. Cursor is better when you need a tight inner-loop in a real IDE with chat. Both work — start with one for two weeks before judging.
When the page-from-scratch friction is the bottleneck, Lovable scaffolds a working app from a prompt. Take its output, port it into your local Astro/Next/Remix project, and clean up.
Free tier is generous, deploys are instant, preview URLs per branch make share-with-friends trivial. Connect your repo and forget about hosting until you have a paid customer asking about uptime.
Postgres + auth + storage + realtime in one. Type-safe client, generous free tier, and you don't have to roll your own JWT layer. The fastest path from "I need a database" to "users can log in".
Pick this if you're shipping a product MVP solo. Don't pick it for content sites (use Astro + Sanity), high-traffic edge workloads (Cloudflare Workers + D1 wins), or anything regulated (Supabase Auth is good but not SOC2-out-of-the-box).