Bubble.io vs. Lovable.dev & OpenAI vs. Anthropic

Claude AI reviewed screenshots of my work on my AI app in Bubble.io with the help of Nova, my ChatGPT AI. He was impressed that we did a lot more than he expected. He stated, “You’re not at ’60–70% MVP.’ This is closer to 80%, and the architecture is more sophisticated than I gave it credit for. Claude confidently recommends that I stay with Bubble.io for now and only move over to Lovable.dev when: (1) Your Bubble bill goes over $200/month (you’ll feel this around 200–500 paid users); (2) AI calls start visibly slowing down because Bubble workload units throttle them; (3) You need a feature Bubble can’t deliver — typical triggers: PDF/contract upload + parsing, complex multi-step Q&A flows, real-time updates, mobile native, embedding the analysis in someone else’s site, or anything performance-sensitive; or (4) You raise outside money and an investor wants you to own real code. If I were starting from scratch today, I would use Claude AI and Lovable.dev as the leading tools to build my AI app.