Project · Your Hello Product, Live

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Ship something real. Submit your work when you're done.

Brief

Build and deploy a single-purpose app of your own choosing to a real public URL, iterated at least five times from the first draft. This is not a toy exercise — pick something you would actually use (a habit tracker, a link-in-bio page, an expense splitter, a wedding RSVP, a tip calculator) and take it all the way to a URL a stranger can open on their phone. Success means three concrete things: the URL loads for someone who is not you, every visible button and form works when clicked, and you have one piece of written feedback from a real person plus your own list of the five specific changes you made from first draft to shipped.

Deliverables

The live public URL of your deployed app (e.g. your-app.lovable.app), confirmed to load in a fresh browser and on a phone.
Your saved 'v1 prompt' — the exact one-paragraph build prompt you started with, showing the WHO / WHAT / SCREENS structure.
A written 'Five changes I made' list: at least five specific iteration requests you sent, each phrased as a concrete change (renamed X to Y, changed color from A to B, added field Z).
A completed click-test checklist: two columns, WORKED and DID NOT WORK, covering every screen, every button, and at least three silly-input tests per form.
One piece of written feedback from a real person, captured verbatim, answering 'what is this for' and 'where were you confused', plus the one change you made in response.

How we grade it

The URL loads successfully in a private/incognito window and on a mobile browser with wifi off — not just inside the builder preview.
Every visible button and link does something (no dead buttons), and every form either accepts valid input correctly or refuses invalid input gracefully — verified against the submitted checklist.
The 'Five changes' list contains at least five entries and each names a specific element and the exact change, not a vague wish like 'made it nicer'.
The feedback deliverable records a real person's verbatim answers to both questions, and shows at least one change made in direct response to that feedback.
The app does exactly one job clearly — a stranger can tell what it is for within five seconds of opening it, matching the WHO/WHAT from the v1 prompt.

Hints

Choose the smallest version of your idea that is still genuinely useful — a habit tracker with three habits beats a life-management suite you never finish. Send changes one at a time and check the preview after each, so when something breaks you know exactly which request caused it and can roll back in version history. When you deploy, immediately test the live URL on your phone with wifi off; that is the honest proof it is really on the internet. Keep your notes file open the whole time and log each change as you make it, so the 'Five changes' deliverable writes itself.

Expected output

A message a classmate could receive and act on, for example:

App: Daily Habit Tracker Live URL: https://my-habit-tracker.lovable.app (loads on phone, wifi off, confirmed) v1 prompt: 'Build a daily habit tracker for one person to use on their phone. Each day they see a list of habits and tap a checkbox to mark each done; checked habits turn green. Add habits with a plus button, delete with a trash icon. Show today's date and a done-count like 2 of 5 at the top. One clean screen, calm colors, large tap targets.' Five changes I made:

Renamed the Save button to 'Add habit'.

Changed the checked color from green to teal (#2dd4bf).

Added an optional note field under each habit.

Blocked adding a habit with a blank name.

Added a friendly 'No habits yet — add one!' empty state. Click-test: WORKED — check/uncheck toggles color and counter, add/delete work, long names wrap. DID NOT WORK (now fixed) — blank name added an empty row; deleting all habits showed a broken 0/0. Feedback from Priya: Q1 'It's for checking off daily to-dos?' Q2 'I tapped a habit twice because I wasn't sure if it checked it or opened it.' -> In response I made the checkbox visibly larger and added a checkmark animation so the tap result is obvious.

Stretch goals

Point a custom domain you own at your app (e.g. myhabits.com) instead of the default .lovable.app address.

Ask the AI to move your data from browser local storage into a shared database so the app remembers your data across devices, then test it on two devices.

Get feedback from a second person and compare it to the first — note whether they stumbled in the same place, which tells you if it is a real pattern or a one-off.