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Open Lovable

168 pointsby iamflimflam1last Sunday at 10:10 AM48 commentsview on HN

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vunderbalast Sunday at 5:05 PM

Why does this reference Lovable at all? The tagline for this project is "Clone and recreate any website as a modern React app in seconds" and requires a FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in order to perform the necessary scraping.

Lovable is more of a self-contained LLM chat which creates a new react site with optional supabase integration.

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cal85last Sunday at 12:30 PM

Wait is this a Lovable clone that is actually called open-lovable? That seems bold

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aziis98last Sunday at 12:01 PM

I didn't know about https://e2b.dev/ but I was looking for something exactly like that. Does anyone know about any self hostable alternatives?

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pymanlast Sunday at 11:40 AM

Great initiative! I'd love to see this project build a community around it. Quick question, what do you need Firecrawl for?

ulrischalast Sunday at 12:11 PM

Why would I do this? It would be better to have an app that turns a react app into a native web app. Speculation rules and page transitions make it possible already.

mosfetslast Sunday at 6:12 PM

Reminds of me of tools like https://huu.la, the main difference is newer generations focuses on utilizing LLM to map design to code, versus the older generations focus on using WYSWYG tooling to edit the page directly.

bravesoul2last Sunday at 11:47 AM

Can I run the whole chain FOSS? Firecrawl, this (maybe the LLM can be local too?)

pointlessonelast Sunday at 1:47 PM

Now… any chances we could get a thing that takes in a React app and spits out a normal website with minimal or no JS?

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thedevilslawyerlast Sunday at 3:51 PM

There's also bolt.diy which uses browserbased webcontainer to build apps.

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jspinerlast Sunday at 3:37 PM

Is this a desktop app wrapper for lovable?

kroatonlast Sunday at 11:52 AM

It needs a Docker-Compose.

jacooperlast Sunday at 10:45 PM

Why not use bolt? It's open source and is competitive with lovable and replit.

sachinaaglast Sunday at 1:46 PM

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