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Hitting a wall with your app builder?

Base44 and Lovable are great… until things get complicated. Let a software engineer step in.

Cooper Tingey, software engineer and CTO

I'm Cooper Tingey, a software engineer and a CTO. LinkedIn

Tell me about your app

You keep your app, your data and your accounts. You stay in charge of building.

How it works

  1. 1

    We talk

    You show me the app and what is going wrong. I tell you plainly what I see. No jargon, no pitch.

  2. 2

    I fix it and move it

    I fix the bugs, tidy up the code, and put your app on hosting and a database you own. One to three days.

  3. 3

    You keep building

    I set up Claude Code on your computer and show you how to use it, with guard rails so a bad change cannot take your app down. A day.

  4. 4

    I take the hard problems

    Payments, logins, other software, security, speed. Anything the AI cannot get you through, send to me.

Who you would be working with

Cooper Tingey, software engineer and CTO

Cooper Tingey · Software engineer and CTO

I'm Cooper Tingey. I keep production software running for a living, and that is the standard I bring to your app. You work with me directly, not a ticket queue.

See my background on LinkedIn

Catapult

I'm the CTO. It sends customer messages for pest-control companies every day, across three other systems it plugs into.

An estate-planning firm

Their Lovable prototype is now the app their staff use every day: hosted on Google Cloud, staff sign-in, documents drafted automatically, backups. I moved it there and I keep it running.

Questions

Do I have to stop using Lovable or Base44?

No. Keep using it for design and quick changes if you like. What changes is where your app runs and who can fix it.

Who owns the app?

You do. The code, the database, the hosting and the domain all sit in accounts you control. I get access while we work together, and you can remove it at any time.

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 how it works, and put guard rails in so a bad change cannot reach your users. When you hit something hard, you send it to me.

Will you rewrite my app?

Almost never. Most apps need a clean-up, not a rewrite. If a rewrite really is the right call, I say so up front and tell you why.

What does it cost?

We talk about that in the first call, once I have seen the app. The call itself is free and there is no obligation.

How soon can we start?

We can usually talk within a few days. Fixing and moving the app takes one to three days after that, and setting you up on Claude Code takes a day.

Tell me about your app

What did you build, and where did it get complicated? I read every message myself and reply within one business day.

I read every message myself. You will hear back within one business day.

Guides

Longer answers to the questions people ask me most.