vi3ecoding Team
Every founder eventually picks a stack and stops second-guessing it.
For Vi3ecoding, that decision was made about a year ago, after the third client project where I tried something "more flexible" and shipped slower.
The Lovable + Supabase stack isn't the most powerful one I've used. It's the one that lets me ship the most products per month without lowering quality. That's the only metric that pays the bills.
Related reading from vi3ecoding:
- The Lovable AI Builder Guide
- Supabase RLS Without the Database PhD
- The Supabase Auth Setup I Use on Every Project
Here's the honest case for the stack — and the small list of projects I wouldn't use it on.
What the stack actually is
- Frontend: Lovable, generating React + TanStack Start + Tailwind.
- Backend: Supabase — Postgres, auth, storage, Edge Functions.
- Hosting: Lovable's published deployment plus a custom domain.
- Glue: TypeScript everywhere, real code I can read and edit.
No serverless wrappers. No half-managed nonsense. Two tools that take each other seriously.
Why these two, specifically
Lovable was the first builder that treated Supabase as a first-class backend instead of a checkbox. That's not a marketing line — it shows up in the generated code. Auth flows that actually use Supabase auth. Queries that actually respect RLS. Edge Functions that actually deploy.
Most other AI builders hand you a frontend and shrug at persistence. This pair doesn't.
A real example: foodla.eu
Multi-restaurant platform. Restaurants sign up, log in, manage their own menus, get found in search. Real auth, real data, real money on the line.
- Built on Lovable.
- Backed by Supabase — including row-level security so restaurants can't see each other's data.
- ~10 hours of focused build time once the context files were written.
The 2022 version of this project quoted at multiple months and two developers. The 2026 version was me, two tools and a weekend.
What the stack is great for
- SaaS MVPs with auth, billing, and multi-tenant data.
- Internal tools that need to be real, not Notion-shaped.
- Marketplaces and platforms with onboarding flows.
- Client work where the brief changes weekly.
If the project has users, data, and a real business model, this stack fits.
What it's not great for
I owe you the honest list too.
- Heavy creative interactive sites — animation-led brand work still lives in Webflow or custom code.
- Mobile-native apps. Lovable does responsive well, but native iOS isn't its lane.
- Things that should never have been an app — sometimes the answer is a Google Doc.
If your project is on this list, use something else and don't apologize for it.
How the two tools actually talk to each other
The boring magic: Lovable generates Supabase-aware code by default. Auth context is wired in. Queries respect the schema you set up. RLS policies aren't an afterthought — they're written into the generated code as you build.
Practically, that means a feature like "let restaurants edit only their own menus" becomes a single prompt + a single RLS policy, not a three-day plumbing job.
What I'd tell a new vibe coder picking a stack
Stop optimizing for theoretical flexibility. Optimize for shipped projects per quarter. Then look at the stack again.
For most of you, that math points at Lovable + Supabase. For some of you, it points somewhere else. Both answers are fine.
So — is this the stack to bet your agency on?
It's the stack I bet mine on. Not because it's perfect, but because it's honest about what it is.
A stack you ship on every week beats a stack you're proud of every month.
The tools chose me as much as I chose them. After enough projects, you stop arguing with the receipts.