Lovable · Production

Hire a Lovable developer who reads the database, not just the prompt.

You built it in Lovable and it works. Before real users sign up, a senior engineer reads the code, the Supabase project and the hosting account, fixes what would break, and deploys it on accounts you own. It starts with a $1.5K audit, fixed.

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$1.5K
Audit, fixed
Day 5
Written report
$5K–$15K
Hardening, quoted from the audit
Since 2019
Production engineering

Why an engineer

What another prompt will not fix.

The database is open until someone checks.

Lovable apps talk to Supabase straight from the browser, so row-level security is the only thing between one user and another user's rows. CVE-2025-48757 was exactly this: Lovable apps with tables anyone could read. Every table gets a policy that matches your product's rules.

The agent cannot see what it did not build.

Secrets in git history, a service key in a client fetch, preview and production sharing one database, backups that live in the volume they protect. None of that is in the chat window, so none of it gets fixed by asking again.

A price before the work, not a day rate.

The audit is $1.5K fixed and ends with a written quote for the fixes inside $5K–$15K. The audit fee comes off it. You know the number before you commit to anything.

You keep building in Lovable.

The code lives in a GitHub repository you own and Lovable keeps syncing with it. What changes is that deploys go through tests, and the database and secrets sit in accounts you control.

What you can hire for

Four ways in, priced up front.

Most Lovable apps need the first two. The other two are there for when the app outgrows the builder or needs someone on call.

Production Audit, $1.5K

The repo, the Supabase project and the hosting account read against a published checklist. Every finding with a severity, where it is and the fix, in five days. Anything that lets an anonymous user read another user's data is closed during the audit.

Production Hardening, $5K–$15K

Every audit finding closed. Separate preview, staging and production databases, backups restored once to prove they work, error tracking a person reads, and tests on sign-up, login and payment. Two to four weeks, with a date in writing.

A rebuild, from $5K

When the audit says the app should be rebuilt, it says why, and the quote is for a fixed-price build on Next.js and Postgres instead. That is the exception: most Lovable apps are a sound product with a thin backend.

Ongoing help, from $3K/mo

A month-to-month retainer from the engineer who hardened the app, for new features, upgrades and the night something breaks.

How it runs

Access on Monday, a report on Friday.

  1. Access

    Read access to the GitHub repository, the Supabase project and the hosting account. Two sentences about who your users are and what they pay for.

  2. Read

    Days 1 to 3: the checklist, item by item, against the real code and the real database. Critical access-control holes are closed as they are found.

  3. Report

    Day 5: the written report, a fixed quote and a date for the hardening, and a thirty-minute walkthrough in severity order.

  4. Harden

    If you go ahead: two to four weeks, a live demo every few days, deployed on your accounts. 50% to start, 50% on deployment. If the date agreed at scoping is missed, the second half is waived.

Questions

What people ask before they book.

How much does it cost to hire a Lovable developer?
At Codeks: $1.5K fixed for the audit, then $5K–$15K for the hardening, quoted from what the audit finds. The audit fee comes off the hardening if you go ahead. Freelance marketplaces bill by the hour, which is fine for a single bug and hard to budget for a launch.
Is Lovable's security scan not enough?
Run it. It is free and it catches tables with no row-level security at all. It does not read your policies for logic errors, it does not know a service-role key is in a client fetch, and it does not look at your hosting account or your backups. Lovable's own documentation says it cannot guarantee security. The audit is the part a scanner cannot do.
Will you rewrite my app?
No. The stack stays: React, Supabase, Stripe. The audit names the files that change and the hardening changes those. If a rebuild is warranted the report says so, with the reasons, and it is quoted separately.
Can I keep editing it in Lovable afterwards?
Yes. Lovable syncs with the GitHub repository, and the repository is yours. Changes you make in Lovable go through the same tests and deploy pipeline as everything else.
Who does the work?
One senior engineer, the founder of Codeks, in Prishtina, Kosova, on CET. The person on the call is the person reading your code. Nothing is handed down to someone you have not met.
Do you only work on Lovable apps?
No. The same audit covers Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor and Claude Code apps, or anything that produced a React or Next.js app on Supabase, Firebase or Postgres. The checklist is about the app and the database, not the tool.

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