Anybody use Lovable or Bolt?
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I used Base44 a few months ago to create a mobile app (purely for my use). It was my first time using an AI app for this kind of thing.
It works well and does exactly what I want, but - I know that it is tied to Base 44 and that bothers me a bit.
I had a brief play with Lovable and Bolt today. Lovable credits (on the free plan) seemed to last longer than Bolt but Bolt tempts me because (apparently) it allows you to edit the actual code which would mean being able to make changes without using credits. (My day job is software so tweaking wouldn't be a big deal, i just don't have the interest to start from scratch).
Does anybody use either? My feeling is that Bolt would suit me more although it ran out of credits way quicker than Lovable.
It works well and does exactly what I want, but - I know that it is tied to Base 44 and that bothers me a bit.
I had a brief play with Lovable and Bolt today. Lovable credits (on the free plan) seemed to last longer than Bolt but Bolt tempts me because (apparently) it allows you to edit the actual code which would mean being able to make changes without using credits. (My day job is software so tweaking wouldn't be a big deal, i just don't have the interest to start from scratch).
Does anybody use either? My feeling is that Bolt would suit me more although it ran out of credits way quicker than Lovable.
Edited by davek_964 on Monday 7th September 18:53
I didn't bother with Bolt - it had basic problems from the start and when I looked at reviews it seemed that at least one reviewer found the same thing.
I also tried Emergent and - wow. Much much better than the others - it asks intelligent questions in response to your prompt which means it's first attempt is much much better than the others. It also looked much better - far more professional and really not like something an AI code generator had produced.
Sadly there is a big negative - Emergent charge a chunk of credits to host the app - more than you get on the free plan. Which means my simple app would cost me $20 a month to use which makes no sense.
So, that left Lovable. The reviews suggest it makes a nicer front end / UI than Base44 but that isn't my experience. Base44 had some nice touches that the Lovable app missed.
I signed up for the pro plan and now have a working version of my app in Lovable too - I will drop back to the free plan once I'm happy it's working / complete.
Lovable is connected to GitHub and the app is linked from my own domain although all that really means is that my domain points to Lovable. That couldn't be done automatically because they don't list Mythic Beasts as a known host but the manual instructions were simple.
I actually think the Base44 version is a bit nicer than the Lovable version - but Lovable allows you to buy extra credits if you want so I can tweak it further even if I run out of plan credits. And the fact that it's synced with GitHub and not using Base44 proprietary stuff is a big plus, so I will probably gradually move over to using the Lovable version.
My aim is to take the code from GitHub and build it in Android Studio - then see if I can host it directly on my own domain.
That would be a major step forward - but if that does work, I might go back to Emergent and create the app there too. It's done a much nicer job as a starting point and I would also have access to the code there too so if Lovable proves I can self host then I should be able to do the same with the Emergent version and not need the monthly hosting fee.
I also tried Emergent and - wow. Much much better than the others - it asks intelligent questions in response to your prompt which means it's first attempt is much much better than the others. It also looked much better - far more professional and really not like something an AI code generator had produced.
Sadly there is a big negative - Emergent charge a chunk of credits to host the app - more than you get on the free plan. Which means my simple app would cost me $20 a month to use which makes no sense.
So, that left Lovable. The reviews suggest it makes a nicer front end / UI than Base44 but that isn't my experience. Base44 had some nice touches that the Lovable app missed.
I signed up for the pro plan and now have a working version of my app in Lovable too - I will drop back to the free plan once I'm happy it's working / complete.
Lovable is connected to GitHub and the app is linked from my own domain although all that really means is that my domain points to Lovable. That couldn't be done automatically because they don't list Mythic Beasts as a known host but the manual instructions were simple.
I actually think the Base44 version is a bit nicer than the Lovable version - but Lovable allows you to buy extra credits if you want so I can tweak it further even if I run out of plan credits. And the fact that it's synced with GitHub and not using Base44 proprietary stuff is a big plus, so I will probably gradually move over to using the Lovable version.
My aim is to take the code from GitHub and build it in Android Studio - then see if I can host it directly on my own domain.
That would be a major step forward - but if that does work, I might go back to Emergent and create the app there too. It's done a much nicer job as a starting point and I would also have access to the code there too so if Lovable proves I can self host then I should be able to do the same with the Emergent version and not need the monthly hosting fee.
Interested in your journey so far.
I had a heart attack a couple of years ago and wanted an android app to link to a Bluetooth crest heart monitor. I know there are 100s on the app store but all crap for my purpose. I want it to display my current heart rate on my phone screen, nothing else. There is no app that does that.
I looked at creating an app but have zero coding knowledge and thought AI would be the answer. I tried at the time and it wasn't there yet; perhaps it is now.
Was your app this simple?
With your extensive knowledge (v me) which site would be the best to create and then e port the code like yiu are trying?
I had a heart attack a couple of years ago and wanted an android app to link to a Bluetooth crest heart monitor. I know there are 100s on the app store but all crap for my purpose. I want it to display my current heart rate on my phone screen, nothing else. There is no app that does that.
I looked at creating an app but have zero coding knowledge and thought AI would be the answer. I tried at the time and it wasn't there yet; perhaps it is now.
Was your app this simple?
With your extensive knowledge (v me) which site would be the best to create and then e port the code like yiu are trying?
TheDrownedApe said:
Interested in your journey so far.
I had a heart attack a couple of years ago and wanted an android app to link to a Bluetooth crest heart monitor. I know there are 100s on the app store but all crap for my purpose. I want it to display my current heart rate on my phone screen, nothing else. There is no app that does that.
I looked at creating an app but have zero coding knowledge and thought AI would be the answer. I tried at the time and it wasn't there yet; perhaps it is now.
Was your app this simple?
With your extensive knowledge (v me) which site would be the best to create and then e port the code like yiu are trying?
My app is simpler because it's standalone. It's just a budgeting / money manager app that keeps track of my spending. Similar to you, there are plenty in the app store but they don't do exactly what I want so it was easier to use my own. I had a heart attack a couple of years ago and wanted an android app to link to a Bluetooth crest heart monitor. I know there are 100s on the app store but all crap for my purpose. I want it to display my current heart rate on my phone screen, nothing else. There is no app that does that.
I looked at creating an app but have zero coding knowledge and thought AI would be the answer. I tried at the time and it wasn't there yet; perhaps it is now.
Was your app this simple?
With your extensive knowledge (v me) which site would be the best to create and then e port the code like yiu are trying?
Yours will be more complicated because you're needing to interface to something else via Bluetooth. How easy that will be, I'm not sure.
But - it does change things with the pricing. Base44 has 'credits' that you use for creating / building your app but also has 'integration credits' - they seem to be used when you interface to something else (e.g storing stuff on Google drive) so I think they'd probably get used when using Bluetooth to interface to the heart monitor.
Base 44 does give the integration credits as part of the free plan, but I think they'd get used every time you use the app so it could stop working half way through the month.
I'd say that Base44 seemed to do a better job of creating my app but there are certain limitations with it. I think Lovable is more flexible - even on the cheapest plan you can sync the code to GitHub - so I think that's probably the best to try.
My Base44 subscription expired 2 days ago (I only subscribed for a single month to create the app).
As far as I can tell, it mostly still works fine - it's a standalone app, so doesn't need database management or anything like that. The one thing that doesn't seem to work now is that I have repeating transactions - i.e. automatic date based transactions - and they no longer occur.
I'm not sure why that would be dependent on a subscription since I'd expect that to be handled locally - but clearly it requires something.
A bit annoying, but something I can live with.
I assume that Lovable will have the same issue (maybe more?) when my subscription for that ends in about a month. But at least with that, I can start hacking the code and probably solve it myself.
ETA: I don't think it is because my subscription ended - I think it's actually a bug in the repeating transactions which means they're only working for the first time the date occurs.
As far as I can tell, it mostly still works fine - it's a standalone app, so doesn't need database management or anything like that. The one thing that doesn't seem to work now is that I have repeating transactions - i.e. automatic date based transactions - and they no longer occur.
I'm not sure why that would be dependent on a subscription since I'd expect that to be handled locally - but clearly it requires something.
A bit annoying, but something I can live with.
I assume that Lovable will have the same issue (maybe more?) when my subscription for that ends in about a month. But at least with that, I can start hacking the code and probably solve it myself.
ETA: I don't think it is because my subscription ended - I think it's actually a bug in the repeating transactions which means they're only working for the first time the date occurs.
Edited by davek_964 on Monday 14th September 11:08
Edited by davek_964 on Monday 14th September 13:57
Base 44 bug now fixed - using the daily credits on the free plan - so I believe it is fully functional without a subscription.
I took the next step with the Lovable version of the app - setup a free Vercel account and linked that to my Github project - deployed using my own domain. So that is completely independent of Lovable now if I want to progress that way further. For now, I still have almost a month of subscription so will continue to tweak until it expires.
It does prove that - in theory - I could use a one month subscription to Emergent and create the app with that - it really does seem to be much better and much more polished in what it produced with the free credits. But - not only do they have no free plan (so no way to do minor tweaks once you stop subscribing) - they will also delete the entire project 45 days after you cancel subscription. Which means - if there are problems with it, or you want to tweak it - you really are on your own, and have to do it manually.
It's a shame - the initial version of the app it produced (albeit without most of the functionality) was a level above Base44 and Lovable - but I guess it's aimed at a different market.
I took the next step with the Lovable version of the app - setup a free Vercel account and linked that to my Github project - deployed using my own domain. So that is completely independent of Lovable now if I want to progress that way further. For now, I still have almost a month of subscription so will continue to tweak until it expires.
It does prove that - in theory - I could use a one month subscription to Emergent and create the app with that - it really does seem to be much better and much more polished in what it produced with the free credits. But - not only do they have no free plan (so no way to do minor tweaks once you stop subscribing) - they will also delete the entire project 45 days after you cancel subscription. Which means - if there are problems with it, or you want to tweak it - you really are on your own, and have to do it manually.
It's a shame - the initial version of the app it produced (albeit without most of the functionality) was a level above Base44 and Lovable - but I guess it's aimed at a different market.
Had an evening free, so decided it was worth trying Emergent.
It does produce a much better app. It asks intelligent questions, it makes suggestions and it does things sensibly - which means you have to make additional requests much less than Base44 / Lovable. And, it looks much more professional.
But.....
It burns credits. Base44 and Lovable both created the same app on their cheapest plan - 100 credits, plus the odd tweak / bug fix on the free daily credits.
Emergent also has 100 credits on the cheap plan and gives a bonus 150 for your first month. And, it burned them all without reaching the same point as the other two.
In addition to that, it won't run when hosted on Vercel.
I suspect I could solve the run problem but can't see the point. It burns credits too quickly.
I'll stick with Lovable - I've no doubt I could make it look just as good if I'm willing to burn the same 250 credits Emergent took
It does produce a much better app. It asks intelligent questions, it makes suggestions and it does things sensibly - which means you have to make additional requests much less than Base44 / Lovable. And, it looks much more professional.
But.....
It burns credits. Base44 and Lovable both created the same app on their cheapest plan - 100 credits, plus the odd tweak / bug fix on the free daily credits.
Emergent also has 100 credits on the cheap plan and gives a bonus 150 for your first month. And, it burned them all without reaching the same point as the other two.
In addition to that, it won't run when hosted on Vercel.
I suspect I could solve the run problem but can't see the point. It burns credits too quickly.
I'll stick with Lovable - I've no doubt I could make it look just as good if I'm willing to burn the same 250 credits Emergent took
Edited by davek_964 on Wednesday 16th September 20:53
I took a look at Base44 after this, as I wanted a simple Android app for a photo frame, and all the main offerings just didn't do what I wanted or didn't work. Due to it being tied to the web, even as an Android app, Base44 didn't work for what I wanted.
I ended up just using Claude and got something that works, well, in under an hour after I got all the right tools/libraries installed. Not interested in pushing it to the Play Store, as it is mainly a learning exercise.
I ended up just using Claude and got something that works, well, in under an hour after I got all the right tools/libraries installed. Not interested in pushing it to the Play Store, as it is mainly a learning exercise.
Monsterlime said:
I took a look at Base44 after this, as I wanted a simple Android app for a photo frame, and all the main offerings just didn't do what I wanted or didn't work. Due to it being tied to the web, even as an Android app, Base44 didn't work for what I wanted.
I ended up just using Claude and got something that works, well, in under an hour after I got all the right tools/libraries installed. Not interested in pushing it to the Play Store, as it is mainly a learning exercise.
Does Claude give you a full mobile app (rather than web app)?I ended up just using Claude and got something that works, well, in under an hour after I got all the right tools/libraries installed. Not interested in pushing it to the Play Store, as it is mainly a learning exercise.
Claude could be the next one I play with.....
(Note that Base44 and Lovable can produce versions that ruin when offline even though they are web apps. Both of my versions do)
Edited by davek_964 on Friday 18th September 16:40
Yes, it helped code it all up. I had to install the sdk, gradle etc and point Claude Code at the directory, but then it just worked, pretty much. Gradle even has a debug signing cert so you can sideload your APK's directly to Android, which is what I did. I made a few changes, fixed a bug etc, all via Claude. Was very simple.
I had tried this with Base44 and it told me a fully offline, no web app was not supported by it.
I had tried this with Base44 and it told me a fully offline, no web app was not supported by it.
I didn't have too much time but did subscribe to Claude Code today, installed it and used it from Android studio.
I gave it a more detailed initial prompt than I have on the other tools and off it went.
Took a while - more than 30 mins I think by the time it has created the code, synced Gradle etc. But it did create an app.
I had time to prove it ran in the emulator but no time to use it so I don't know yet how well it implemented the behaviour I asked for on the first pass.
The GUI looked a little simple and bright so that will need some work but I'll see how it behaves when I have time to actually try it.
Not synced to GitHub yet.
I'm actually very happy with the Lovable version now - I improved the GUI look a few days ago and added a few new features and it's really very good now. Plus, I can update it from my phone rather than messing about with my laptop.
So the Claude solution will need to impress me quite a bit for me to switch to it, but either way it should be entertaining to continue with it for a bit.
I gave it a more detailed initial prompt than I have on the other tools and off it went.
Took a while - more than 30 mins I think by the time it has created the code, synced Gradle etc. But it did create an app.
I had time to prove it ran in the emulator but no time to use it so I don't know yet how well it implemented the behaviour I asked for on the first pass.
The GUI looked a little simple and bright so that will need some work but I'll see how it behaves when I have time to actually try it.
Not synced to GitHub yet.
I'm actually very happy with the Lovable version now - I improved the GUI look a few days ago and added a few new features and it's really very good now. Plus, I can update it from my phone rather than messing about with my laptop.
So the Claude solution will need to impress me quite a bit for me to switch to it, but either way it should be entertaining to continue with it for a bit.
Had a bright idea this morning - if it works it would put the Claude version ahead:
Web apps can't do notifications. True mobile apps can.
Which means, the Claude version should be able to receive the Google wallet notifications and automatically add transactions.
It won't know "what" the transaction is - but, I have templates for regular spending (e.g Costco is always "food") - so for a lot of my spending, it could automatically match the vendor to a template and create a new transaction with all of the details complete.
Looking forward to trying this!
ETA: I've started trying the Claude version on the emulator this morning - at the moment, I'm not very impressed.
Expenses were adding to my balance not reducing it - one of the other versions made that mistake too, but they fixed it in about 2 mins - Claude took about 15.
In the initial prompt, I told it that I wanted to be able to create repeating transactions that should happen automatically on the date. And yet, the repeating transaction form doesn't have a date field......
I will continue with it, but given Claude Code reputation, I expected more.
ETA2:
Duh, user error. Although I installed Claude it seems I used android studio AI agent - Gemini - to create my app and fix a bug this morning.......
Now, I'm using Claude
Web apps can't do notifications. True mobile apps can.
Which means, the Claude version should be able to receive the Google wallet notifications and automatically add transactions.
It won't know "what" the transaction is - but, I have templates for regular spending (e.g Costco is always "food") - so for a lot of my spending, it could automatically match the vendor to a template and create a new transaction with all of the details complete.
Looking forward to trying this!
ETA: I've started trying the Claude version on the emulator this morning - at the moment, I'm not very impressed.
Expenses were adding to my balance not reducing it - one of the other versions made that mistake too, but they fixed it in about 2 mins - Claude took about 15.
In the initial prompt, I told it that I wanted to be able to create repeating transactions that should happen automatically on the date. And yet, the repeating transaction form doesn't have a date field......
I will continue with it, but given Claude Code reputation, I expected more.
ETA2:
Duh, user error. Although I installed Claude it seems I used android studio AI agent - Gemini - to create my app and fix a bug this morning.......
Now, I'm using Claude
Edited by davek_964 on Sunday 20th September 08:59
Just an FYI, if you install Claude Desktop, you have 2 tabs - Chat/Cowork and Code.
Code takes direction, and specific instructions. Chat/Cowork is a more interactive prompt and is essentially the same interface as you would use Claude in a browser. The way I use it is to tell Chat/Cowork what I want, and discuss it, and it produces the prompt for Code to use (or a .md file to apply with instructions).
This way, you actually don't need to use Claude on the Code tab, you can use a local LLM (it is configurable) to follow the instructions, but defaults to a Claude model on Code. Mine uses Sonnet 5 usually, whereas I use Opus 5 on the Chat/Cowork side, this has worked well for me - there are different 'token' costs for each, even on the flat rate plans, you just have a set number of tokens you can use.
Code takes direction, and specific instructions. Chat/Cowork is a more interactive prompt and is essentially the same interface as you would use Claude in a browser. The way I use it is to tell Chat/Cowork what I want, and discuss it, and it produces the prompt for Code to use (or a .md file to apply with instructions).
This way, you actually don't need to use Claude on the Code tab, you can use a local LLM (it is configurable) to follow the instructions, but defaults to a Claude model on Code. Mine uses Sonnet 5 usually, whereas I use Opus 5 on the Chat/Cowork side, this has worked well for me - there are different 'token' costs for each, even on the flat rate plans, you just have a set number of tokens you can use.
Thanks.
Although I was planning to do this next weekend, I managed to get most of it done yesterday. It needs a few tweaks but the app via Claude is mostly done - and that includes handling notifications from Google Wallet.
It now automatically creates "pending" transactions that can be approved with a single click or edited when there is a Google wallet notification. I need to buy more things to test it fully but that will need to wait for normal life - I already bought something I didn't really need from Amazon last night to test it!
That feature is something the web apps can't do - and although I am happy with the Lovable version, it is nice having a "proper" app - albeit with the downside that I'm having to use my laptop to do it.
Lovable does seem better at tweaking the UI with visual improvements that I want - not sure why that is, but when I tell Claude to improve something it seems to do a worse job for some reason.
One downside is that I think Claude Code only works on a paid plan? So no tweaks with a free daily limit unlike Lovable, so I'd have to start messing about with the code myself (or I suppose the free Gemini in Android Studio could probably handle minor tweaks).
Although I was planning to do this next weekend, I managed to get most of it done yesterday. It needs a few tweaks but the app via Claude is mostly done - and that includes handling notifications from Google Wallet.
It now automatically creates "pending" transactions that can be approved with a single click or edited when there is a Google wallet notification. I need to buy more things to test it fully but that will need to wait for normal life - I already bought something I didn't really need from Amazon last night to test it!
That feature is something the web apps can't do - and although I am happy with the Lovable version, it is nice having a "proper" app - albeit with the downside that I'm having to use my laptop to do it.
Lovable does seem better at tweaking the UI with visual improvements that I want - not sure why that is, but when I tell Claude to improve something it seems to do a worse job for some reason.
One downside is that I think Claude Code only works on a paid plan? So no tweaks with a free daily limit unlike Lovable, so I'd have to start messing about with the code myself (or I suppose the free Gemini in Android Studio could probably handle minor tweaks).
Subject to bugs I haven't found yet, the Claude version of my app is complete and it is definitely how I will maintain the app in future / create additional apps if I want one. Yesterday, I collected my car from its service - which meant it was a Google Wallet transaction where I had a template in my app containing the details - and when I paid with my phone, my app created a complete pending transaction with all of the details filled in and correct.
Brilliant.
So - after trying many - this is my summary of the AI code generators:
Web App generators
Base 44 : The first one I used, and it impressed me a lot. But, you can't sync the source code to Github on the cheapest plan and you are tied into Base 44 more than you are tied in to some of the others.
Bolt: Just didn't work for me - basic functionality didn't work, and it couldn't fix it on free credits. It was the only one I didn't pay for - because the free experience didn't make it worth paying for.
Emergent: In some ways, brilliant. It did produce an app that looked much better than the others and - for similar prompts - produced sensible / logical behaviour so required less prompts like ".... it should be doing this".
But, it eats credits - I gave up when it had burned 2.5 times as many (and still not reached the same point as the others) - I'd guess I'd need about 4-5 times as many credits even though it seems more "intelligent" than the others.
Lovable: Probably the best all round one I tried. You can sync to Github on the cheapest paid plan, you get free daily credits, if you pay for extra credits in a month they remain even if you drop back to the free plan. Overall, it would be my choice for web apps.
Overall, the web app generators work well. You can use them directly on your phone / tablet, they're pretty quick to do stuff and they do a good job. You can host away from the generators - i.e. on your own site via Vercel etc. And even though they are web apps they can be configured to run offline (although they will need to connect once).
But they have limitations - they are not true mobile apps so if you want notifications (or in my case, you want to process another apps notifications) that isn't happening.
It really isn't much harder to use something like Claude (or Cursor etc). It meant switching to a laptop, and there is a little more to install - in my case, Node.js and Claude - I already had Android Studio installed. But this isn't really any harder than installing normal windows apps / phone apps etc. so isn't really a big deal.
And once you have - it's the same use behaviour as the web apps - input what you want, watch the code appear - and, it's a true mobile app. Apart from the benefit of being more functional than web apps - it also starts up instantly, whereas the web app takes 1-2s on my phone.
As somebody who's day job is software, it's incredible to be able to create a fully functioning app from scratch without writing a single line of code.
With a few tweaks, I'm sure I could add my app to the app store (I won't). I wonder how many apps on there are done the same way - from the way the GUI looks, I'd be very surprised if the eXpend budgetting app was not done with a code generator. For simple apps (which mine is) I can't imagine why I'd use Play Store now - I can have exactly what I want, tailored to my own tastes - with no adverts / no paid plan.
I could cancel my Claude plan and re-subscribe if / when I need it, but I may keep it running for a while. It's not a great deal of money, and I quite enjoyed playing with the apps - I'm sure I can think of other apps I'd like to add to my phone, or perhaps create personalised versions of apps I already have.
Brilliant.
So - after trying many - this is my summary of the AI code generators:
Web App generators
Base 44 : The first one I used, and it impressed me a lot. But, you can't sync the source code to Github on the cheapest plan and you are tied into Base 44 more than you are tied in to some of the others.
Bolt: Just didn't work for me - basic functionality didn't work, and it couldn't fix it on free credits. It was the only one I didn't pay for - because the free experience didn't make it worth paying for.
Emergent: In some ways, brilliant. It did produce an app that looked much better than the others and - for similar prompts - produced sensible / logical behaviour so required less prompts like ".... it should be doing this".
But, it eats credits - I gave up when it had burned 2.5 times as many (and still not reached the same point as the others) - I'd guess I'd need about 4-5 times as many credits even though it seems more "intelligent" than the others.
Lovable: Probably the best all round one I tried. You can sync to Github on the cheapest paid plan, you get free daily credits, if you pay for extra credits in a month they remain even if you drop back to the free plan. Overall, it would be my choice for web apps.
Overall, the web app generators work well. You can use them directly on your phone / tablet, they're pretty quick to do stuff and they do a good job. You can host away from the generators - i.e. on your own site via Vercel etc. And even though they are web apps they can be configured to run offline (although they will need to connect once).
But they have limitations - they are not true mobile apps so if you want notifications (or in my case, you want to process another apps notifications) that isn't happening.
It really isn't much harder to use something like Claude (or Cursor etc). It meant switching to a laptop, and there is a little more to install - in my case, Node.js and Claude - I already had Android Studio installed. But this isn't really any harder than installing normal windows apps / phone apps etc. so isn't really a big deal.
And once you have - it's the same use behaviour as the web apps - input what you want, watch the code appear - and, it's a true mobile app. Apart from the benefit of being more functional than web apps - it also starts up instantly, whereas the web app takes 1-2s on my phone.
As somebody who's day job is software, it's incredible to be able to create a fully functioning app from scratch without writing a single line of code.
With a few tweaks, I'm sure I could add my app to the app store (I won't). I wonder how many apps on there are done the same way - from the way the GUI looks, I'd be very surprised if the eXpend budgetting app was not done with a code generator. For simple apps (which mine is) I can't imagine why I'd use Play Store now - I can have exactly what I want, tailored to my own tastes - with no adverts / no paid plan.
I could cancel my Claude plan and re-subscribe if / when I need it, but I may keep it running for a while. It's not a great deal of money, and I quite enjoyed playing with the apps - I'm sure I can think of other apps I'd like to add to my phone, or perhaps create personalised versions of apps I already have.
Edited by davek_964 on Wednesday 23 September 10:41
These code generators open up a world of options - at least for personalised apps.
I used to like the BBC news widget but they discontinued it and I've never found another one I liked.
A couple of hours with Claude Code today and now I have one I do like - and since it was developed purely for me, it has two scrollable sections. One for general news, one for tech stories.
The second one I did today is PH specific. It really annoys me that there is no block function on PH - it would stop a lot of arguments I think.
Claude took 30 mins to give me a 'PH Viewer' app. Looks just like a browser, but has a block option next to the user for each post - which blocks their posts and any quotes of them.
Since that worked well enough I figured I may as well extend it - there are entire sections of PH I never look in - I can now hold down those section headings and get an option to hide them.
So I now have a view of PH that only shows sections I view and I can block anybody I want to. Even 'What's New' only shows posts from unhidden sections.
Not bad for less than an hour's effort (and most of it wasn't my effort).
I used to like the BBC news widget but they discontinued it and I've never found another one I liked.
A couple of hours with Claude Code today and now I have one I do like - and since it was developed purely for me, it has two scrollable sections. One for general news, one for tech stories.
The second one I did today is PH specific. It really annoys me that there is no block function on PH - it would stop a lot of arguments I think.
Claude took 30 mins to give me a 'PH Viewer' app. Looks just like a browser, but has a block option next to the user for each post - which blocks their posts and any quotes of them.
Since that worked well enough I figured I may as well extend it - there are entire sections of PH I never look in - I can now hold down those section headings and get an option to hide them.
So I now have a view of PH that only shows sections I view and I can block anybody I want to. Even 'What's New' only shows posts from unhidden sections.
Not bad for less than an hour's effort (and most of it wasn't my effort).
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