You vibe-coded it. We’ll make it real.

Built something on Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit or Base44 that your customers already like, but you can’t ship, secure or afford to keep running? We rebuild it on WordPress you own: your design and flows kept, the shaky parts re-engineered by developers who have run production platforms since 2006, hosted in the UK, with no credits, seats or usage bills ticking in the background.

★★★★★ Rated on Trustpilot & Google · The people who write the code

We rebuild from LovableBolt.newv0 by VercelReplit AgentBase44CursorWindsurfClaude CodeFirebase StudioGoogle AI StudioHostinger HorizonsCreate.xyzEmergent+ anything on Supabase, Firebase or Vercel
Sound familiar?

The prototype works. Shipping it is the problem.

Vibe coding is brilliant at the first 80%: you described what you wanted and something real appeared. The last 20% is where founders get stuck, and it is the part that decides whether the thing can take money, hold customer data and survive a year.

01

You hit the wall

Every fix breaks something else. The AI rewrites files it shouldn’t, the “one more feature” loop burns credits, and you have stopped being able to predict what a prompt will do.

02

Security you can’t vouch for

Database rules you were never asked about, API keys shipped to the browser, an admin route anyone can open. Security researchers keep finding exactly this in AI-built apps, at scale.

03

Three bills for one app

Builder credits, a database subscription, a hosting plan, usage overages and AI calls, each priced per seat, per project or per message. It adds up before you have a single paying customer.

04

You don’t really own it

The code is tangled into one vendor’s backend and another’s deployment. Some builders won’t export at all. If a price changes or a service pauses your project, you have no move.

05

Nobody to call

When it goes down at 9pm there is a chatbot and a community forum. No developer who knows your system, no monitoring, no backups you have tested, no one accountable.

06

Your team can’t run it

Editing content, adding a product, changing a price or pulling a report means prompting the AI again. There is no admin your staff can use without you.

What we do with it

Keep what your customers liked. Rebuild what would hurt you.

Your prototype is not wasted work. It is the best brief we ever get: a working demonstration of what you want, screen by screen. We treat it as the design and the spec, then build the real thing underneath.

The front end becomes a WordPress theme or block set that matches your prototype. The logic becomes a custom plugin written to WordPress coding and security standards. The database moves into MySQL with proper access control. Then it goes on hosting we run and monitor, with your team in a dashboard they can actually use.

We keep

Everything that made it yours

  • ✓The design and layout. Colours, type, spacing and screens, reproduced faithfully.
  • ✓User flows. Sign-up, onboarding, checkout, dashboards, the order of things.
  • ✓Your data model. The tables and relationships that already describe your business.
  • ✓Copy and content. Lifted across, tidied where it helps.
  • ✓Existing users and records. Migrated from Supabase, Firebase or wherever they sit.
We rebuild

Everything you would regret shipping

  • ⟳Authentication and permissions. WordPress roles and capabilities instead of hopeful row-level rules.
  • ⟳Business logic. Pricing, bookings, workflows and rules rewritten as tested server-side code.
  • ⟳Data access. Prepared statements, validation and sanitisation on every input and output.
  • ⟳Payments and integrations. Stripe, GoCardless, Xero, CRMs and couriers wired properly, with keys kept server-side.
  • ⟳Admin and reporting. A real back office your staff can use without prompting an AI.
  • ⟳Hosting, backups and monitoring. UK servers we operate, tested restores, alerts that reach a human.
Why this matters

AI writes code fast. It does not write it safely.

This is not us being sniffy about AI. We use it ourselves, every day. It is that generated code needs an engineer to own the decisions it skipped, and most prototypes never get one.

Veracode, 2025

45% of AI-generated code tasks introduced a known vulnerability

Across 100+ language models and 80 coding tasks, nearly half produced code with an OWASP Top 10 flaw. Cross-site scripting failed in 86% of cases.

Escape, 2025

5,600 vibe-coded apps scanned, 2,000+ vulnerabilities found

Including 400+ exposed secrets and 175 leaks of personal data, across apps built on Lovable, Bolt, Base44 and Create.

CVE-2025-48757

170 of 1,645 sampled Lovable apps exposed user data

Researchers found missing database security rules let anyone read or write records, names, emails, payment status, with the app’s public key.

Our approach

Twenty years of production WordPress, applied to your idea

Nonces, capability checks, prepared statements, escaped output, secrets kept server-side, dependencies audited. The boring, proven stuff that keeps a platform trading.

Why WordPress

A framework that has already survived everything your app will meet

WordPress runs more than 40% of the web. That is not a fashion statement; it is two decades of real-world hardening, a security team, a plugin ecosystem for the ordinary parts, and a global pool of developers who can pick your code up if you ever want them to.

 Typical vibe-coded stackRebuilt by Rivmediaon WordPress you own
Code ownershipExportable at best; tightly coupled to the builder’s backend. Some platforms do not export at all.Standards-compliant theme and plugin, in a repository in your name. Any competent developer can maintain it.
AuthenticationHosted auth with database rules the AI may or may not have written. Easy to get subtly wrong.WordPress users, roles and capabilities, hardened and tested for twenty years, with 2FA and SSO where you need them.
DatabaseA third-party Postgres you rent, with security enforced row by row and paused if you stop paying.MySQL on your hosting, with access controlled in server-side code and backups you can restore.
Running costsBuilder credits + database tier + hosting seats + bandwidth and function overages, all scaling with usage.One predictable UK hosting and care plan. No per-message, per-seat or per-project metering.
Content & adminChanges mean prompting again, or editing code.A back office your team already knows how to use: pages, products, users, orders, reports.
Ecommerce & paymentsStripe bolted on, tax, invoicing and refunds done by hand or not at all.WooCommerce or a bespoke checkout with UK VAT, invoicing, subscriptions and refunds handled.
SEO & performanceClient-rendered React, thin metadata, whatever the builder generated.Server-rendered pages, structured data, Core Web Vitals passed, built to rank.
When it breaksA support chatbot, a forum, and you.Monitoring, alerts and a developer who knows your system, under a care plan.
Platforms

What you built it on, and what we do about it

Every builder leaves a slightly different mess. We have worked through the main ones. If yours is not here, the last card applies.

Lovable

React, Tailwind and Supabase. We export the project, map your Supabase tables and auth into WordPress, and rebuild the UI as a theme. Row-level security gaps and keys in the frontend are the first things we check.

Bolt.new

React, Next, Vue or Svelte with Bolt Cloud or Supabase behind it and Netlify in front. Same approach: UI reproduced, backend rebuilt, data migrated, deployment brought in-house.

v0 by Vercel

Next.js and shadcn components with little or no real backend. Often the cleanest front end to port and the emptiest server to build, so we concentrate on logic, data and admin.

Replit Agent

Any language, usually Node or Python, with Replit’s own database and hosting. We lift the data and the rules and reimplement them as a plugin, so nothing depends on a single workspace.

Base44, Wix AI & hosted builders

No exportable code. We work from the live app, screens and data exports, rebuilding the product rather than the codebase. This is where owning the result matters most.

Cursor, Windsurf & Claude Code

You have a repository and a stack of your choosing, but no one to own it. We audit, decide what is salvageable, and either harden it in place or port it to WordPress where that serves you better.

Firebase Studio & Google AI Studio

Firebase auth, Firestore and Cloud Functions. We migrate collections into relational tables, replace rules with capability checks and bring the functions into a plugin.

Hostinger Horizons, Create, Emergent

React front ends with a hosted or Supabase backend. Handled the same way as Lovable and Bolt: keep the screens, rebuild the engine, move the data.

Something else entirely

If it runs in a browser and you can show us the screens and the data, we can rebuild it. Send a link and we will tell you what we would keep and what we would not.

How a rebuild runs

From “it nearly works” to live, secured and supported

Step 1

Walkthrough & audit

You show us the prototype. We export what can be exported, review the code, data model and security posture, and tell you plainly what is sound and what is not.

Step 2

Scope & fixed quote

What gets kept, what gets rebuilt, what gets improved while we are there. A written scope and a fixed price. No day rates, no credits.

Step 3

Rebuild on WordPress

Theme matched to your design, logic as a documented custom plugin, integrations wired server-side. Built on a staging copy you can click through as it grows.

Step 4

Migrate & test

Users, records and files moved across and reconciled. Security review, load testing and a punch list of edge cases the AI never thought about.

Step 5

Launch & care

Go-live on UK hosting we run, with monitoring, backups and a care plan so it keeps pace with WordPress, your integrations and your growth.

  • Design and flows kept
  • Backend re-engineered
  • Data migrated
  • Code and hosting yours
Proof we can run the real thing

Production platforms we have built and operate ourselves

A rebuild is only as good as the team’s habit of keeping things alive. These are systems taking real orders and serving real data today, on code we wrote and hosting we run. Your rebuilt app joins the same stack.

Industrial services

An inspection reporting portal with client dashboards

An inspection company was running its reporting through forms, spreadsheets and email. Inspectors needed to work on site, sometimes offline; clients needed their reports, floor plans and history in one place.

A portal that turns form submissions into structured inspection records per company and site: an areas editor and floor-plan tool, signature capture, offline drafts that sync, branded PDF report generation, a private file library with previews and download permissions, client onboarding, and front-end dashboards for inspectors, managers and clients.

  • Inspectors work offline and sync later
  • Branded PDF reports generated automatically
  • Per-client dashboards with history and files
  • Bulk import of years of legacy records
Prize competitions

A provably fair competition and prize-draw engine

A competition business needed to sell tickets at volume - thousands in minutes - with instant wins, site credit and draws that customers could verify, without relying on a third-party plugin that could vanish.

A WooCommerce competition product type with its own database schema: pre-generated, cryptographically shuffled ticket pools; atomic allocation that is safe under concurrent purchases and payment webhooks; per-customer limits enforced at cart and allocation; instant wins, wallet credits, audit logging and provably fair draws.

  • Atomic ticket allocation safe under heavy concurrent load
  • Instant wins and site credit wallets
  • Provably fair draws customers can check
  • Full audit trail for compliance
Automotive retail

A private number plate search and checkout platform

A registration retailer needed customers to search tens of millions of DVLA registrations, see live pricing and buy or gift a plate in one flow, with the legal paperwork handled behind the scenes.

A search API and database layer holding 72 million records, live vehicle lookups, a pricing engine with service fees and transfer charges, gift and express checkout, and a pre-owned marketplace, all inside WooCommerce with branded transactional emails.

  • 72-million-record search that answers in milliseconds
  • DVLA fee, VAT and transfer handling built into checkout
  • Gift purchases and express checkout without leaving the page
  • Customer account area for transfers and documents
And more

Other platforms, portals and tools from the last year or two

Marketplaces, configurators, data hubs and dashboards. If your prototype rhymes with one of these, we have already solved most of it in production.

Getting a quote

What to send us

You do not need a spec. The prototype is the spec. Send what you have and we will come back with what we would keep, what we would rebuild, and a fixed price.

Everything you send is treated as confidential. If the project is sensitive we will sign an NDA before we look. If we think the prototype is fine as it is, we will say so and not charge you for the opinion.

  1. A link to the prototypeThe live URL, or a share link from the builder. A screen recording of you using it is even better.
  2. The code export, if you have oneA GitHub repo or zip from Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit or your IDE. Don’t worry if it is messy; that is the point.
  3. The dataSupabase or Firebase schema and a sample export, or just a description of what the app stores and who should see it.
  4. The bits that frustrate youWhat breaks, what you could not get the AI to do, what you are paying every month and to whom.
  5. Where it needs to get toTaking payments, handling real customers, a team using it daily, an investor demo. The destination sets the scope.
Related

Where a rebuild fits with the rest

Custom web development

When the prototype is the seed of a bigger platform: portals, marketplaces, multi-tenant systems. Custom web development.

Custom plugin development

When the logic is best packaged as a plugin your team can configure and other developers can extend. Plugin development.

API & systems integration

When the rebuilt app needs to talk to accounts, CRM, couriers or stock, reliably. API and systems integration.

Ecommerce websites

When the prototype sells things and needs a real checkout, tax, invoicing and fulfilment. Ecommerce websites.

Fix AI-generated WordPress code

Pasted a ChatGPT snippet or plugin into an existing site rather than building an app? AI code fixes.

Hosting & care

Where the rebuilt platform lives afterwards, with backups, monitoring and updates handled. Business hosting and care plans.

Straight answers

Vibe code rebuild questions

Can you convert my Lovable app to WordPress?

Yes. Lovable projects export as React with a Supabase backend. We reproduce the screens as a WordPress theme, rebuild the logic as a custom plugin, migrate your Supabase tables and users into WordPress, and host the result on UK servers we run. The same applies to Bolt.new, v0, Replit, Hostinger Horizons and most other builders.

Why rebuild on WordPress rather than clean up the React code?

Cleaning up keeps you on the same rented stack: a database subscription, a hosting plan and a builder, each billed separately and each a dependency you do not control. WordPress gives you a mature, open-source framework with a proven security model, an admin your team can use, an ecosystem for the ordinary parts and a huge pool of developers. For most business apps, that is a better place to own something long term. If your app is genuinely better off as a standalone application, we will tell you.

Will it look the same as my prototype?

Yes, unless you ask us to improve it. The prototype is our design brief. We reproduce the layout, colours, type and flows, and only change things where we can show you a reason, such as accessibility, mobile behaviour or conversion.

What happens to my existing users and data?

They come with you. We export from Supabase, Firebase, Replit or wherever the data sits, map it into WordPress and MySQL, migrate it on a staging copy first, reconcile the counts, then repeat the migration at launch so nothing created in between is lost. Passwords are handled by a secure reset flow rather than being moved in the clear.

My builder does not export code. Can you still help?

Yes. Base44, Wix AI and similar hosted builders keep the code. We work from the live app, your screens and your data exports and rebuild the product rather than the codebase. It is often cleaner that way.

Is WordPress secure enough for a real application?

WordPress runs more than 40% of the web, including banks, governments and newsrooms, and has a dedicated security team. Almost every WordPress incident you have read about comes from abandoned plugins, weak hosting or poor custom code. We write the custom code, choose and audit the plugins, and run the hosting, which removes the usual causes.

Will I own the code?

Yes. The theme and plugin are delivered in a repository in your name, documented, with the hosting and credentials in your name too. If you ever want to move to another developer or host, it goes with you.

How long does a rebuild take?

A small app with a handful of screens and a simple data model is usually a few weeks. Platforms with payments, roles, integrations and large datasets take longer. We scope it before quoting, so the timeline we give you is one we can keep.

How much does it cost?

It depends on how many screens, how much logic, whether there are payments or integrations, and how much data moves. We quote a fixed figure in writing after a walkthrough, with ongoing hosting and care as a clear monthly amount. Get in touch and we will come back within one working day.

Can you keep using AI to build the WordPress version faster?

We do, where it helps, with an engineer reviewing every line that ships. Speed from AI, accountability from people. That combination is the whole service.

What if my prototype is already fine?

Then we will say so. Part of the audit is telling you honestly whether it needs rebuilding, hardening in place, or leaving alone. Nobody pays for an opinion.

Looking for something bigger? Need a whole platform designed and built from scratch rather than rebuilt from a prototype? See our custom web development service →

Keep the idea. Lose the risk.

Send us the link to what you have built. Within one working day we will tell you what we would keep, what we would rebuild, and give you a fixed price for making it real.

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