A non-technical founder reports building and shipping a fintech web app almost entirely using Lovable alongside Claude, though noting checkout integration bugs that blocked sales.

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        "excerpt": "The checkout one is the scary one. Cheapest guard i know is an alert when you had visitors but zero payments started in Stripe for a day. Would have caught your 12 second bug on day one.",
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