Anyone here built a small store app with Lovable or Emergent?

[ethanwright]

I run a small thirty bees shop for secondhand books and I've been thinking about building a lightweight companion app for order lookups, mostly to save time at the counter. I've been reading about Lovable and Emergent as options and can't decide between them. What worries me is how well either one would connect to an existing MySQL database and whether the generated code would hold up once I try to extend it. I'm not a developer by trade, so I'd rather not end up with something I can't maintain. My other concern is how each handles authentication for customers. I know a few people here have tried AI app builders alongside thirty bees, so I'd welcome hearing which one you went with and where it fell short. Thanks in advance.