Cut Lovable credit use on small fixes
The builder likes the finished site but says small fixes were the expensive part. Moving edits to GitHub plus Claude helped.
Claude: real stories
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Learn git, keys and backups as a beginner
After building a useful project tool in a month, the poster had to learn GitHub, hosting and API keys on the fly, and wrote rules after reading about agents deleting code.
Plan for the last 80% after the first build
A non-technical PM shipped an iOS app in 2.5 months. The first local build came fast, and the rest was a slog.
Plan cheaply before building with Replit
A builder shares what worked: discuss architecture with a cheap planning mode first, then build one module at a time instead of handing over a full spec.
Limit what a GitHub MCP token can reach
Invariant Labs showed a malicious issue in a public repo could make an agent using the GitHub MCP server copy data from the user's private repos into a public pull request.