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Vibe Coding Tech Stack for Shipping a Small App
A stack is a set of responsibilities: who stores the data, identifies the user, collects payment and runs the app. Choose those boundaries around the first complete customer journey.
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5 resourcesLovable and Supabase: A Stack Planning Guide
Plan the boundary between the app builder, database and authentication. This is an architecture checklist, not a claimed maker case study.
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Vibe Coding Workflow from Brief to Live Check
Write the user journey, keep source history and implement one working slice at a time. After publishing, repeat the same journey at the public URL—the preview may use different configuration.
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GitHub Spec Kit for an Existing Repository: Spec to Tasks
Try GitHub Spec Kit on one change in an existing repository and check the spec, plan and tasks before implementation.
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Superpowers Skill for Planning and Verification
Superpowers is a skills framework and development methodology connecting design clarification, planning, implementation and review. It emphasizes test-driven development and explicit checks, with setup routes for different coding-agent environments.
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SaaS Launch Checklist for the First Customer Journey
Before announcing the product, walk through what the first customer will do—and what happens when it fails. Cover account access, paid states, recovery and the public domain with observable checks.
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StripeAssign data, identity and payment ownership
01Realtime collaboration and a public content site need different data flows.
02Database choice and identity ownership are separate decisions.
03Payment events must lead to the correct application access.
Start with one practical task
Draw the path from a user action to stored data and back to a visible result. Assign each step an owner across the interface, authentication, storage and deployment. Use that path to choose the minimum stack.
Write down the smallest complete workflow
A public content site, a logged-in dashboard and a realtime collaborative tool place different demands on a stack. List the data, user roles and live updates needed for the first working journey. Avoid choosing infrastructure from a generic checklist alone.
Make ownership boundaries explicit
Supabase and Convex organize data access differently. Better Auth and Clerk offer different ownership and operating models for identity. Payment choices add another responsibility boundary: confirm account ownership, entitlement updates and the provider’s supported operating model.
Validate a vertical slice
Build one path that reads and writes the intended data, handles permissions and reaches a deployed environment. Check the unhappy path as well as success. This gives more useful stack evidence than a diagram that has not carried a real task.
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How should I choose the next resource?
Choose the task you need to complete, read the resource’s original documentation and verify one representative outcome in your own project.
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View allSupabase vs Convex for Data and Realtime Apps
Start with how the app reads and updates data. Supabase gives you Postgres; Convex puts reactive queries and mutations in TypeScript server functions, which changes where the application logic lives.
Read moreVibe Coding Workflow from Brief to Live Check
Write the user journey, keep source history and implement one working slice at a time. After publishing, repeat the same journey at the public URL—the preview may use different configuration.
Read moreLovable and Supabase Setup for Auth and Data
You do not need a separate Supabase account for every Lovable app. Connect your own project when you need its dashboard, billing or existing data—and plan the move, because the two backend routes do not migrate automatically.
Read moreLovable Stripe Integration and Test Checkout
Choose built-in payments or your own Stripe account before configuring checkout. With your own account, the key determines the mode: a live key can produce real charges even in preview.
Read moreSaaS Launch Checklist for the First Customer Journey
Before announcing the product, walk through what the first customer will do—and what happens when it fails. Cover account access, paid states, recovery and the public domain with observable checks.
Read moreVibe Coding Projects with Documented Builds
Browse documented vibe coding projects by output or builder. Open the live project and the original maker account to see what the build covered.
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