vibe coding is great... until it costs you your entire database client came to me with a hotel booking site developed on #lovable. wanted a migration

i asked for the #supabase credentials and repo access. they shared what they had

prob 1... supabase projects were all inactive. supabase pauses databases after 7 days of no activity. their "developer" never told them this

prob 2... the credentials they had were not even connected to the live site someone had linked a random supabase project to lovable and walked away i flagged everything>> explained the risk clearly>> advised them not to let the lovable subscription lapse before we sorted the database situation

they didn't listen>> subscription ended >> database gone

not paused --> gone

everything... bookings, users, hotel data -- vanished because nobody who actually understood the stack was ever involved

this is the part vibe coding does not show you in the demo

UI looks clean... prototype feels real. but nobody told you about inactive database conditions, environment variable management or what happens when the platform subscription that was secretly holding everything together disappears

i am not against AI assisted development. i use it every day

but there is a difference between using AI as a tool and handing your production business over to a prompt

If you are building something real... a booking platform, a client portal, an ecommerce store... get an experienced developer involved before you go live. not after the database disappears

conversation costs nothing ... lesson costs everything

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