Well Kept SoftwareProduction help for apps built on Lovable · Base44 · Bolt · Replit
Hitting a wall with your app builder?
Base44 and Lovable are great… until things get complicated. Let a software engineer step in.
I'm Cooper Tingey, a seasoned software engineer and now CTO. Let me help you.
You keep your app, your data and your accounts — and you stay in charge of building it. We keep it well kept.
Before → after
- Stuck in a prompt loopAn engineer reads the actual code
- Everything lives inside the builderHosted on a database you can log into
- "Done!" — but it isn'tFixed, and you can see why
- The builder decides what's possibleYou keep building in Claude Code
- Every new problem costs creditsWell kept for $99 a month — I handle the hard ones
Sound familiar?
The builder got you here. It can't take you further.
Every fix breaks two other things
You ask for one change and three screens shift. The AI says it's fixed. It isn't.
Credits disappear, the bugs don't
Forty prompts into the same problem and the bill keeps climbing.
It's live, and you're the only one who can fix it
Real users, real data, and no one to call when something breaks at 9pm.
You've outgrown what the builder can do
Integrations, security, a database you can actually see — the questions have gotten technical.
How it works
You keep building. We keep it well kept.
- 1
We meet
A call where you show me the app and tell me what's going wrong. I ask a lot of questions and tell you plainly what I see — no jargon, no pitch.
- 2
I take in your app and clean it up
I bring your code into Claude with me, fix what's broken, straighten out the structure, and host it on a database you have access to — in accounts you own.
- 3
I get you on Claude Code
I set Claude Code up on your machine and show you how to keep building the app yourself, with changes checked before they go live. You stay in charge of the building.
- 4
I handle the hard issues
When something comes up that a builder can't solve — an integration, a security question, a migration, a performance problem — that's what I'm for.
Pricing
Simple, fixed, no credits.
First meeting
$0
We talk through your app and what's going wrong. You leave with straight answers either way.
- 30–45 minutes, screen share
- I look at the app and the code
- A plain-English read on what it needs
- A fixed quote if you want the next step
Cleanup & move
Most commonfrom $1,500 one-time
Fixed price after the meeting. Most apps land between $1,500 and $8,000 depending on integrations and data.
- Bugs fixed, code cleaned up
- Hosted on a database you have access to
- Your own repo, hosting and accounts
- Backups, monitoring, alerts
- Claude Code set up on your machine
- Walkthrough so you can keep building
Well Kept
$99 /month
Your app, kept running, kept secure and kept up to date — with me on call for the hard issues.
- Kept running: hosting watched, nightly backups
- Kept secure: patches and dependency updates
- Kept honest: uptime and error monitoring
- The hard issues, handled by me
- Cancel any time — everything keeps running
About Well Kept
Run by an engineer who keeps production software every day
Cooper Tingey · Software engineer · CTO
Well Kept Software is run by Cooper Tingey, a seasoned software engineer and CTO. I've spent the last year taking AI-built apps the last mile, and I'm the person you'll actually work with — not a ticket queue.
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Guides
Straight answers to the questions builders search for
What it takes to get a Lovable or Base44 app to production, written by the engineer who does it.
Lovable · production
Taking a Lovable app to production
Your Lovable app works. What has to change before paying customers depend on it — staging, security, backups, hosting you own — and how I do it.
Read the guide →Lovable Cloud · migration
Migrating from Lovable Cloud to your own database
How to move a Lovable Cloud app — database, users, storage, edge functions, secrets — to your own Supabase or Postgres without losing users or data.
Read the guide →Hire · Lovable developer
Hire a Lovable developer — one engineer, not an agency
Hire a Lovable developer to finish, fix or scale your app: a US software engineer and CTO, fixed prices, you own everything. No agency bench.
Read the guide →Lovable · security
Security review for Lovable and Supabase apps
Security review for Lovable + Supabase apps: RLS audited table by table, secrets out of the bundle, auth verified — a report you can hand to a buyer.
Read the guide →Lovable · staging
A real staging environment for your Lovable app
Lovable Cloud retires its Test/Live environments on October 5, 2026. How to get a real staging database and preview environments for a Lovable app.
Read the guide →Lovable → Claude Code
Moving from Lovable to Claude Code
Move from Lovable to Claude Code without losing momentum: GitHub sync, your own database, a deploy gate, and a workflow a non-developer can use.
Read the guide →Base44 · export & migration
Getting a Base44 app out of Base44
Base44 exports the front end but keeps your backend, users and data. What the export contains and how to rebuild the backend on a database you own.
Read the guide →Questions
Straight answers
Do I have to stop using Lovable or Base44?
No. Plenty of people keep using the builder for design and quick UI changes. What changes is where the app runs, who can fix it, and how changes reach your users.
Who owns the app?
You do. The code, the database, the hosting and the domain all live in accounts you control. I have access while we work together; you can revoke it at any time.
What does "clean it up" actually mean?
I read the code the builder generated, fix the bugs you know about and the ones you don't, remove the duplication and dead ends, lock down security, and put it on proper hosting with backups and monitoring. Rarely a rewrite — usually a serious tidy-up.
I don't code. Can I really use Claude Code?
Yes. If you built an app by prompting Lovable, you can build with Claude Code. I set it up, show you the workflow, and put guard rails in so a bad change can't take your app down. When you hit something hard, you send it to me.
What counts as a "hard issue"?
Anything the builder or Claude Code can't get you through: third-party integrations, payments, security and permissions, database changes, performance, app-store builds, or a bug that keeps coming back.
Why "Well Kept"?
Because building the app turns out to be the easy half. Software a business actually runs on has to be kept: patched, backed up, monitored, and fixed properly when it breaks. Keeping it that way is the job — and the name.
How fast?
We can usually meet within a few days. Cleanup and move takes one to three weeks depending on integrations and how much data has to move.
Let's talk
Tell me about your app
What are you building, and where did it get complicated? I read every message myself and reply within one business day — and if we work together, your app gets kept the way it should be.