“Farm-to-table software”: How I built a Thanksgiving party hub using Lovable for managing invites, dishes, shared recipes, and photos
Summary
In this pre-Thanksgiving episode, Claire Vo walks through creating a personalized party hub using Lovable, showing how to transform AI-generated designs into something warm and useful. She details upleveling typography with Google Fonts, crafting custom visuals with Midjourney style references, and adding custom features like dietary preferences. Claire also shares a valuable AI hack for reformatting complex online recipes into clean, step-by-step, kid-friendly versions ideal for holiday cooking.Episode description
In today’s pre-Thanksgiving episode, I walk you through how I vibe coded my very own “Thanksgiving party hub” using Lovable—and how I transformed it from AI-generated slop into something warm, personal, and genuinely useful. I show you exactly how I upleveled the typography, visuals, and structure using Google Fonts and Midjourney style references, and then I share one of my favorite real-life AI hacks: how to turn any messy online recipe into a clean, step-by-step, kid-friendly version that’s actually usable while you’re cooking. This is a cozy, practical walkthrough of my real design process—the little tricks I use to make AI-built apps feel handcrafted instead of generic.
What you’ll learn:
- How to build a fully functional Thanksgiving party hub in Lovable—guests, dishes, recipes, and photos
- How I uplevel AI-generated designs using Google Fonts and Tailwind
- How to use Midjourney style references to create custom images that match your aesthetic
- How to add custom features to vibe-coded apps, like dietary preferences and allergen tags
- How to iterate on layouts inside Lovable using screenshots and small, targeted prompts
- How I use ChatGPT to restructure recipes so the measurements are embedded directly in each step
- How to make recipes kid-friendly and easier to follow using a simple formatting prompt
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Where to find Claire Vo:
ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/
Website: https://clairevo.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) Introduction to the Thanksgiving party hub concept
(02:20) Starting a project in Lovable and initial design assessment
(04:59) Upleveling typography with Google Font combinations
(08:36) Creating custom header images with Midjourney
(11:39) Adjusting aspect ratios for Midjourney images
(14:22) Fixing design issues incrementally
(18:52) Adding dietary-restriction functionality
(23:36) AI recipe reformatting for easier cooking
(26:02) Thoughts on ChatGPT 5.1
(30:51) Final implementation and recipe sharing
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Tools referenced:
• Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
• Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com/
• Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/
• ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/
• Canva Font Combinations: https://www.canva.com/font-combinations/
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Other references:
• Polenta and Sausage Stuffing Recipe: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/polenta-and-sausage-stuffing-233030
• Runaway Pancakes (kid-friendly recipe site): https://runawaypancakes.com/
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