I’m in Reno and work on the operations side of a small company, not a developer. I’ve been trying to sort out which AI app builder makes more sense for a simple internal tool: a form that logs requests and shows them in a table. I keep going back and forth between Lovable and Bolt, and the third-party comparisons I’ve run across online don’t settle it for me.
My main concern is lock-in. If I build something in one of these and later want to hand it off or change hosts, how much friction is there? I also don’t have a strong sense of which one produces cleaner results for straightforward data-entry screens versus more elaborate UI. I don’t need anything fancy — just something that works and won’t be a dead end if the project grows a little.
For anyone who has actually used either one for a small internal tool, which would you lean toward, and what surprised you about the limits once you got past the demo?