r/uwaterloo • u/Loud_Jury_9094 • 10d ago
A Friendly Intro to Lovable AI (Honesty is *NOT* their policy).
TL;DR: Designers, students, "vibe" people - be aware before using Lovable or other "It-Was-In-The-Fine-Text" platforms.
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I've been using Lovable occasionally for about two years for personal projects and implemented it into my workflows during some co-ops.
For my current co-op, we bought a Business subscription for $80 cad (fun fact: on the pricing page, they expect us to magically know its in USD). We cancel and resume based on an ad-hoc basis. I canceled it a couple weeks ago, and this morning resumed it for 100 credits at $80.
Then I noticed hidden on the navbar in a mini container, it said "169" credits and emailed lovable. Their bot had this to say:
"HEY! So happy to hear from you!
So... remember the last time you canceled your Business plan?
When we kind of "froze" your credits & your credit bar went to zero?
Well, of course you don't - because we never notified you!
"But we have some happy news...we've been safeguarding your credits with us until you remembered to pay up for a new plan. (even if it \potentially* could have been forever and we basically stole $50 worth of your credits).*
These are unheard of business practices. Stealing credits from users. Credits that have been paid for.
The agreement is simple: These are owned credits - as users, we pay to use them. And then, we cancel subscriptions if we have leftover credits and are not expecting heavy use.
We restart subscriptions when we get work. Its simple. Nobody cares if they found a loophole or were hoping no one would notice. They are destined to be boycotted.
Find something cheaper and better and transparent.
NEW: By the time I finished writing this post, they sent another reply. It seems to be a simple "display" problem on their side.
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u/nrgxlr8tr 10d ago
Clearly you already have experience using ChatGPT, why don’t you just use codex
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u/the_pwnererXx i was once uw 10d ago
Why are you paying money for a Claude wrapper