AI App Building: 5 Mistakes You Must Avoid

Just finished building my second app with Lovable AI, and wow - I made some MAJOR mistakes that cost me tons of tokens and debugging headaches! If you're diving into AI-powered app development, you need to watch this before you burn through your budget like I did.

In this video, I break down my biggest fails while building a CRM app with Lovable, starting with the massive mistake of trying to cram everything into one giant prompt. Spoiler alert: it backfired spectacularly and turned my 30-item feature list into a 14-phase nightmare that ate through my tokens faster than I could type. I'll show you exactly what went wrong and how breaking things into smaller, focused chunks could save you from the same fate.

I also dive deep into why following someone else's step-by-step method might not work for your brain (learned this the hard way), and reveal Lovable's biggest weakness - front-end design. The UI it generates is honestly pretty basic and generic. But here's the game-changer: I discovered UX Pilot AI for creating stunning designs that you can then screenshot and feed back to Lovable for implementation.

Plus, I'm sharing my secret weapon discovery that could revolutionize how you work with Lovable. This combo might be the key to building professional apps without burning through your entire token budget on every single update. After spending 90 tokens to get from idea to working app, I've learned some hard lessons about workflow, organization, and the real costs of AI development that every aspiring no-code developer needs to know.

Links:
Lovable: https://lovable.dev/?via=jonathan-perez
CRM (sorry, it's not really ready yet, still a lot to fix up)
Cursor: https://cursor.com/
Claude: Claude.ai

Timestamps:
0:00 My Second Lovable App Journey Begins
0:47 Following Step-by-Step Methods Gone Wrong
1:56 MISTAKE #1: The Giant Prompt Disaster
3:08 When Lovable Says It's Done But Nothing Works
5:35 90 Tokens Later - Breaking Down My Failed Approach
6:36 The 14-Phase Recovery Plan
7:25 Why Chat Feature Might Be Underused
9:02 MISTAKE #2: One-Size-Fits-All Organization Fails
11:22 Why I Couldn't Follow Daryl Wilson's Method
13:41 My Actual Workflow vs The 'Right' Way
14:05 MISTAKE #3: Lovable's Front-End Design Weakness
15:02 UX Pilot AI - My Front-End Design Solution
16:27 Screenshot Method for Better UI Implementation
18:48 BONUS: Cursor IDE Game Changer Discovery
19:50 Lovable + Cursor Workflow Potential
21:02 Final Thoughts: Limits, Budget & The Future
23:32 Is AI Development Worth The Cost?


If this video saved you from making the same expensive mistakes I did, smash that like button! Drop a comment below sharing your own AI app building experiences or let me know if you want to see me tackle the front-end challenge with Cursor IDE. Don't forget to subscribe for more honest AI development content - I'll be documenting this whole journey, wins and fails included!


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