Build Your First Digital Product with AI

Build the first browser-only To-Do List app in Lovable while learning scope, PRD, Project Knowledge, Plan mode, review, fix, checkpoint, and rollback habits.

1. Scoped First-Build Brief🔒15 min
2. PRD and Project Knowledge🔒20 min
3. Review and Approve the First Plan🔒10 min
4. Review the First Generation🔒20 min
5. First Fix Loop🔒30 min
6. Checkpoint and Rollback Practice🔒12 min

Add browser persistence to the To-Do List app, then test refresh behavior and common localStorage failure modes.

1. Why localStorage Matters🔒10 min
2. Implement localStorage🔒35 min
3. Test localStorage by Hand🔒20 min
4. What to Do When localStorage Breaks🔒25 min

Practice recovering from scope drift, loops, invented APIs, broken changes, and confusing errors before the app becomes more complex.

1. Lovable Changed What I Did Not Ask For🔒18 min
2. Lovable Is Looping or Inventing APIs🔒18 min
3. When Rollback Is Better Than Fixing🔒12 min
4. Read Errors Without Reading Code🔒20 min

Build frontend features with less hand-holding, place UX states where they are testable, and create the first own-product slice.

1. Filters and Empty States🔒35 min
2. Edit Task with Your Own Prompt🔒40 min
3. Priority and Data Migration🔒45 min
4. Due Date, Search, and No-Results States🔒45 min
5. Mobile UX and Regression🔒20 min
6. Milestone: Your Product's First Slice🔒45 min

Clean up the To-Do List app in focused refactor steps while preserving behavior through regression checks.

1. When Refactoring Is Worth It🔒15 min
2. Extract Task Utilities🔒30 min
3. Extract the localStorage Adapter🔒30 min

Bridge from browser storage to remote data, async behavior, loading/error thinking, and the learner's own product data model.

1. From localStorage to Remote Data🔒15 min
2. Your Product Data Model🔒20 min
3. Migration Brief for Todo Database🔒20 min

Create the Supabase project, plan the migration, build the tasks table, and connect real remote reads and writes.

1. Create Supabase from Scratch🔒30 min
2. Create the tasks Table with Lovable🔒35 min
3. Load Tasks from the Database🔒35 min
4. Connect Create, Update, and Delete🔒40 min

Add login, connect tasks to users, and test two-user behavior before enabling privacy enforcement.

1. Why Login Is Needed🔒10 min
2. Add Auth UI🔒40 min
3. Test with Two Users🔒20 min

Turn task ownership into real database privacy with RLS, debugging, and two-user access tests.

1. Why Frontend Filtering Is Not Enough🔒12 min
2. Implement RLS Policies🔒35 min
3. Debug RLS When It Blocks Your Own Rows🔒30 min
4. Test Auth and Access Errors🔒25 min

Connect GitHub, prepare environment variables, deploy to Vercel, and smoke-test the live app after security is in place.

1. What Deployment Means🔒12 min
2. Create GitHub from Scratch🔒25 min
3. Prepare the Project for Deployment🔒20 min
4. Environment Variables🔒20 min
5. First Deployment🔒35 min
6. Production Smoke Test🔒20 min

Polish the completed To-Do List app, run final regression, write the portfolio handoff, and name what Todo did not teach.

1. UX Polish🔒25 min
2. Final Regression Checklist🔒25 min
3. README and Portfolio Description🔒25 min
4. What Todo Did Not Teach You🔒12 min

Use the accumulated Build Notes to deepen your own product slice, then leave with reusable recipes and a tool map.

1. Assemble Your Own PRD🔒25 min
2. Universal Prompt for a New Feature or Product🔒15 min
3. Your First Product Feature from Start to Finish🔒45 min
4. Recipe Index and Next Features🔒20 min
5. When Lovable Is Not Enough: The Tool Map🔒15 min