The Lovable post-launch checklist

Short answer: after your Lovable app goes live, test it as a stranger would. Check that every page has a visible way to start, that the headline is real text, that signup works on a phone, that search engines and AI assistants can read your pages, that errors are logged, that your data is protected by row level security, and that you have a backup. The checklist below covers each area in the order that usually costs you customers first.

1. Conversion basics

• Put a sign-up or "Start free" link in the header and the footer of every page, not only the homepage. Visitors from search or AI answers often land on an inner page.
• Make the hero headline real text, not part of an image. Text is readable by screen readers, search engines, and AI crawlers. A headline baked into a picture is invisible to all three.
• Check the first mobile screen. On a phone, the headline and the main button should both show without scrolling. See mobile conversion killers for the usual problems.

2. Forms and auth flows

• Sign up with a brand new email in a private window, on the published URL. Your editor preview is often already signed in.
• Confirm the email arrives, the link works on mobile, and it lands somewhere useful.
• Try a wrong password, an existing email, and an empty field. Every error should say what to do next.
• Test password reset end to end, and test any "Sign in with Google" button with an account you control.
• Keep forms short. Our guide to form friction lists the fields people abandon on, and why Lovable signup flows break covers the common breaks.

3. SEO and meta

• Give every page its own title and meta description. Lovable's docs note that the starting metadata is generic.
• Add Open Graph tags and a share image, then paste your URL into a chat app to check the preview.
• Check robots.txt and the sitemap. Per Lovable's docs, it creates a robots.txt with every new project but not always a sitemap.
• Know which rendering you are on. Lovable's docs say apps created from May 13, 2026 use TanStack Start with server-side rendering, so every visitor and crawler gets finished HTML. Older React + Vite apps are client-side rendered and pre-rendered only for verified search engines and preview bots; other tools see very little. Lovable offers an in-place upgrade to TanStack Start that consumes credits.
• Only publicly published apps can appear in search. Lovable's docs say branded workspace URLs never appear, so connect a custom domain.
• Run the SEO and AI search review in Lovable's Analytics view, then connect Google Search Console and submit your sitemap.

4. Performance

• Load the live site on a mid-range phone over mobile data. If the first screen takes several seconds, people leave before they read.
• Compress and resize images. A large hero photo is the most common slow first screen.
• Run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools on the homepage and your main landing page, and fix the largest items first.

5. Analytics and events

• Install analytics before you send traffic. Lovable's docs list integrations for Google Analytics 4 and PostHog.
• Track the events that matter, not only page views: sign-up started, sign-up completed, first key action, and payment.
• Check that events fire on the live domain, not just the preview.

6. Error monitoring and console errors

• Open the browser console on every main page and in the signup flow. Red errors there often mean something silently fails for some users.
• Add an error tracker so you hear about crashes from real browsers, not from an angry email.

7. Legal pages

• Publish a privacy policy and terms of service, and link them in the footer.
• If you use analytics or ad cookies, check whether your visitors' region requires a consent banner.
• List a real contact method. A visible way to reach you is also a trust signal for buyers.

8. Custom domain and SSL

• Per Lovable's docs, custom domains need a paid plan. You can connect through Entri or add an A record and a TXT verification record by hand, and you should remove any AAAA records first.
• Lovable generates the SSL certificate for you. If your domain has CAA records, they must allow Lovable's certificate authorities.
• Connecting a root domain redirects www to it by default. Lovable's docs note these redirects are temporary (302), not 301.
• DNS changes can take up to 72 hours. Check both the root and www, on HTTPS, once they are live.

9. Supabase and RLS security basics

• Row level security decides which rows each signed-in user can read or change. Lovable's docs say it sets these policies up when it builds features that store user data, and you can review them under the Database view.
• Review them anyway. Sign in as one test user and try to load another user's records by changing an ID in the URL or request.
• Never put secret keys in frontend code. Lovable's security guidance says to store them as Secrets and read them only in server-side code.
• Validate input on the server, not only in the form.
• Run Lovable's security scan from the project security view before you invite more users.
• If you connected your own Supabase project, manage its settings and keys in Supabase.

10. Backups

• Per Lovable's docs, the built-in backend is backed up daily, with roughly 14 days kept. Backups cover the database only, so download files in storage separately.
• Export a full copy of the database before any big schema change. Lovable warns that a restore cannot be undone.

11. GEO: how AI assistants describe you

• Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude the questions a buyer would ask in your category. Do they name you? Is the description right?
• Make sure your pages state plainly what you do, who it is for, and what it costs, in text near the top.
• Use question-style headings and short, direct answers that an assistant can quote.
• A Persqo GEO scan runs these questions for you, measures how often each engine mentions and cites you, checks whether AI crawlers can read your site, and gives fix prompts. The first scan is a one-time $5.

What to do next

Work through sections 1 and 2 today. They lose the most people and are the fastest to fix. For a pre-launch view of the same problems, read the launch conversion checklist for AI-built apps.

If you would rather see what a stranger sees right now, the Persqo free check opens your app in a real browser and returns three findings in about a minute. For full persona sessions with screenshots and a replay, see Persqo for builders.

Sources

• Connect a custom domain, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026
• Optimize your app for SEO and AI search, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026
• Upgrade a project to TanStack Start, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026
• Control who can access your app's data, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026
• Security best practices for Lovable apps, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026
• Back up, restore, and export your project's database, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026
• Connect to Supabase, Lovable docs, checked November 5, 2026

Last updated: November 5, 2026.

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