I Used My HBAR Profits to Start a Business (FT Lovable AI)
Description
I used my HBAR profits to kickstart not just one, but TWO businesses! 💸 In this video, I dive into how my Hedera gains helped me launch Dank'N'Devour 🍔—my ultimate food review channel—and Poopster 💩—a dog waste pickup service that’s cleaner than your neighbor’s yard. Plus, I showcase Lovable AI 🤖 and some of the game-changing features on lovable.dev that are helping me streamline my projects.
💥 Whether you’re into crypto, food, or looking for simple business ideas, this one's for you.
Explore Lovable: https://lovable.dev/?via=dan
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www.danrichmond.com
💥 Whether you’re into crypto, food, or looking for simple business ideas, this one's for you.
Explore Lovable: https://lovable.dev/?via=dan
📲 Stay Connected with Me!
📹 Subscribe to My YouTube Channels:
Dank'N'Devour:@DankNDevour
VR Channel: @danrichmondvr
🐦 Follow me on X (Twitter): x.com/danrichmondyt
www.danrichmond.com
Summary
How I Used HBAR Profits to Launch Two Successful Businesses
In this insightful video, Dan Richmond shares how he strategically invested his HBAR cryptocurrency profits to launch and enhance two distinct businesses. The video offers a practical look at leveraging crypto gains for real-world entrepreneurial ventures.
Dan first introduces viewers to his newest venture, Dank'N'Devour, a unique content platform that cleverly combines cannabis and food reviews. This innovative business model allows him to help local restaurants and cannabis brands with digital marketing, particularly beneficial for cannabis companies that face advertising restrictions on mainstream platforms like Facebook and Google. The business features a comprehensive website with strain information, restaurant reviews, and partner dispensary links.
The video also showcases Poopster, Dan's established dog waste pickup service that he's been operating since 2015. He explains how he reinvested in this business by creating a more professional, SEO-optimized website with city-specific landing pages to attract more local customers.
A significant portion of the video demonstrates how Dan used Lovable AI (lovable.dev), a powerful development tool that helped him build and improve websites for both businesses. He provides a live demonstration of how the AI tool fixes coding issues and discusses its capabilities compared to similar platforms like Bolt.new. Dan explains that investing in this tool was a strategic decision that will generate more leads and revenue for his businesses in the long run.
Throughout the video, Dan shares practical insights about business development, digital marketing strategies, and how to maximize productivity with AI tools. He also mentions his content distribution across multiple platforms, including YouTube, X (Twitter), and Facebook.
This English-language video serves as both an educational resource for cryptocurrency investors looking to diversify into business ventures and aspiring entrepreneurs interested in leveraging modern tools to build their online presence efficiently.
Transcript
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hey guys I'm Dan richond as the title
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says I used my H bar to start a real
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business and we're going to go over some
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of the tools I used and also my
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businesses if you didn't know I'm
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already a business owner I've been
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owning poopster a dog Waste Company in
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Michigan for quite some time and now
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we're launching a new business I want to
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go over what that is and how I use my H
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bar profits to maximize my productivity
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let's go so as I was saying guys I
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invested my HR profits to start a real
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business and this is what I started so I
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don't know if you guys know but I've
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been posting canvas cont content on X
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and on my private Facebook and I have uh
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a YouTube channel actually check it out
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right here it's called dank Dev but
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before this it was called Always pass
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left as you can see the domain still
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always pass left this is my merch
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website where you can buy the merch uh
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that I wear in the videos
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but um Dan and devour is a newer brand
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and what happened was I I went from
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creating only canvas related content on
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this channel to adding in uh food now
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where did food come from well I've been
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doing local food videos and helping
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restaurants locally with digital
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marketing for some time now and what I
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decided was I thought it was a great
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idea to merge my cannabis and food
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content into one brand so welcome to Dan
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devour now the part about investing and
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how why is invest of what I did so I'm
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going to show you guys a tool in the
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minute called lovable that I used uh
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it's a great tool and I use that to
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create a couple apps and to better one
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of my other businesses so really it was
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a Ultra profitable decision because
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it'll make me more money in the long run
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from having a better website to capture
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more leads for my other business now
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dank and devour this one this this
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business does not focus on leads just
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focus on food reviews so if you guys
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want to check this out so far my app
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isn't fully complete yet I got some
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editing to do and we're going to
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actually do some live editing with the
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tool here in a minute um but you can see
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we got the featured reviews you can
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click the reviews Tab and see our
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reviews um there there and also we have
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a strange tab now as you see some of the
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pictures aren't kind of showing up
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correctly right for our different
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strains well we're going to get that
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fixed but uh this is just part of our
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app guys this is the strain I guess you
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call called the explore strains page um
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this is for all the strains that we test
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out in the videos we're going to tie
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them um so you can read about them and
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learn more about the strains themselves
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where to get them in Michigan and how
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they're available to you we do have an
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about page here's everything about dank
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and devour trusted source for cannabis
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reviews and culinary Adventures that's
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what we're going for we're going to find
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the dankest food we could find we just
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keep it dank here guys that's the whole
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thing about dank and devour so let's go
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down and here's the feature strains as
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you saw from the these tie to the
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Explorer strain page now the important
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thing about the reviews is the reviews
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have their own page they also tie to the
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restaurant where I actually ate the food
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at and here's the information about The
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Strain you can visit the dispensary that
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is holding that strain which is going to
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be obviously a partner of us so the
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caveat to all this is I'll be able to
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help local restaurant advertise and also
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cannabis Brands advertise because right
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now cannabis Brands can't really
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advertise uh on Facebook or Google so uh
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this platform I'm hoping to get launched
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like really soon and have people engage
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with our different options and we're
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going to gamify some stuff and there's
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definitely going to be features I'm
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going to be adding but enough about dank
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and devour let's move on to poopster all
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right so this is my older business this
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is poopster It's a dog waste pickup
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service we pick up dog shap
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residentially I've been running this
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since about 2015 but we shut down cuz I
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suck at customer service and now we're
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back so we launched last year again in
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2023 and we've been keeping yards clean
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since then um now the website was kind
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of a pile of that I threw together
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with WordPress at first but if you look
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at some of these other websites for
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these companies we'll just go to swoop
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and scoop because they're rather large
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uh you know they you know the websites
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are you know customer friendly got some
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graphics got some you know people on
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there which is great great to have um
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but you know I wanted Poster's website
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to be different and better so we use the
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AI we use lovable and I'm going to show
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you all that in a minute um to create
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this so uh you can book online get
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notified enjoy your yard we have a very
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transparent pricing I love this drop-
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down uh thing that changes for pricing
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uh I'm going to make this more legible
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like I said guys some of the stuff I
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just got to go in you know make a couple
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changes uh but most of this is online
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and working so you can see right here we
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have different cities around me that
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offer uh you know pet services and what
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this does is it created a separate page
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for each City so if you click here I
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mean if you guys see it says Clyde uh
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locations Clyde uh Richmond locations
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Richmond so you can see each each uh
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city is there and that'll provide us
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more SEO going into the future and
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getting more leads for those business
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guys because more people will hit those
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terms for pet removal in whatever City
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so really excited about this lovable has
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been a great great thing to have and
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this was one of the things I invested in
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with the money was lovable uh to help
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better both my businesses now most of
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the money uh did go into dank and devour
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because it does take some stuff to get
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the food reviews going some equipment
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and other things I needed uh and also we
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needed investment for the Cannabis so
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that uh I don't have to go to The
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Dispensary every time I want to shoot a
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new video uh to promote their cannabis
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forth they're not giving me a huge
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discount yet even though we're getting
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thousands of views
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so um as I said guys danken Val we have
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a Facebook page you can go check it out
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you can see the reviews we've been
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posting them on X uh I talked about
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poopster now let's finally go into
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lovable and I'm going to show you
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lovable it's one of the greatest tools
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I've ever used uh there is some stuff
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that I think could be better and I'll
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show you uh that too but guys I just
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want to show you this awesome tool and
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let's talk about it got all right guys
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so we're on The Lovable home screen as
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you can see you can type in just like
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any llm you can prompt it here and uh it
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can build basically anything your little
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mind thinks of now uh lovable does
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primarily use Vite uh to build which if
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you know about uh code you know what
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Vite is it's kind of like its own uh
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flavor uh view or whatever it's I think
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it's based on next but um lovable use
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that so let's just go into dank and B
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this is you know the project I just
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showed you now lovable uh works with
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netlify so you can just deploy uh
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straight to netlify so you can can
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see I've been working on D Devar a lot
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guys to get this app working um and uh
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lovable has been a great part of this
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now I have some little things that are
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that I can tell you about lovable first
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uh if you don't know a superbase is it's
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like a software it's like a database as
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a service basically is they have a
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database uh that's where our database
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runs uh the manage user functions all my
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SQL functions background functions all
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my storage is all in super base and it
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ties in uh so lovable has a tie into
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super base where you can use super base
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for most of the stuff now I'm going to
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show you how Lev B works so we're going
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to go down here and you can see that
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these you know are still kind of not
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showing up now I've been working with
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lovable to fix this bug but I'm just
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going to show you I'm going to use one
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of my prompts because guys when you pay
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for lovable uh the I'll show you the
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pricing in a minute but basically you
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only get a certain amount of prompts for
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the month and have already burned
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through all those because I've been
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editing my two projects but uh every day
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you get a certain Mo uh certain number
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of daily credits so I'm just going to go
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in and show you uh using one of my daily
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credits how lovable works so um let's do
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this so it looks like I'm using the word
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component guys because uh this is
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basically we invite uses react so it's
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it's based in JavaScript and um react
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functionality so that's why we're using
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components uh so what we're going to do
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now is just wrun a prompt to have it
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recheck the image issue so that's what
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I'm working on there we go we're asking
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the AI to just fix the error uh we're
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telling it the steps that we've already
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Bend through gabs that's what this
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prompt is about and I'm just going to
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show you so this is how loveable Works
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guys now there is another tool called
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bolt. new and I've tried bolt. new as
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well let me tell you something about
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bolt. new it's great and it it has the
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functionality to do mobile apps and
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stuff that loveable can't do uh loveable
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is improving their design and their UI
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and you can see it's working right now
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uh to see what's wrong with the airs but
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uh so it's it's trying to fix it's
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trying to fix the air but uh bolt. new
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can do mobile apps and you can do
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different kinds of code you don't got to
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stay invite with bolt. new uh and that's
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just another tool so very similar to
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this uh I'm hoping lovable as new
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features and maybe more different kinds
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of code so we'll see if it fixes there
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but you guys you see it it's reloading
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the page because it added some skeleton
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some error
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handlers uh it it added uh some uh
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constant for the URL for the edge
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function so we're just going to go see
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you go you scroll down we see if we see
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any look guys the images are here the
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images are here well all be damned let's
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just see if it works so if we click
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Chrome
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home okay the image is here for the main
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homepage great so that's an example you
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see how I wrote a prompt lovable fixed
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it and now you can see now you can see
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some of the uh these are basically the
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fallback images guys for the strings so
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great LEL worked the prompt worked it
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finally was able to find this issue guys
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love B is a really strong tool I've used
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it uh like I said as an investment into
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my businesses and I took some of my H
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bar profit it helped pay for the lovable
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account and some other stuff to do with
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danin devour and I'm really happy with
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this choice so far as the I think we're
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going into this bear cycle guys H bar is
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falling so uh you know what I mean I'm
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going to Reby in hopefully uh with with
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more USD uh once I get some of these
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tools running uh Dan and devour does
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have bookings for restaurants for
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basically the rest of this week and next
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week we're booking every day for
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different shoots so guys I really think
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that uh Dan devour is going to be an
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awesome new food review content tool
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that you guys see online a lot more I'm
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looking to grow the channel grow the
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content and also grow this app I I
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really want to be different than some of
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these other food reviewers by having an
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app that we're actually uh using for
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advertisement and other things for user
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engagement so
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I'm Dan Richmond I hope you enjoyed this
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video uh if you ever had any tools about
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lovable or any questions about lovable
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put them in the comments and we'll see
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you in the next video Let's Go