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Google AI Studio just KILLED Lovable! Most INSANE AI app builder ever

By Alex Finn

Summary

## Key takeaways - **Google AI Studio: The New Standard in AI App Building**: Google AI Studio offers the easiest way to build AI-powered apps, integrating seamlessly with Google's tech stack and allowing for app launches in seconds, all completely free. [00:01], [00:15] - **Effortless App Creation with Integrated Google AI**: Build apps powered by Google's AI products like Nano Banana for image generation or Gemini for chatbots in one click, without managing any API keys. [01:00], [01:16] - **Overcoming Idea Block with AI Studio Playbooks**: Google AI Studio eliminates the challenge of idea generation with a vast library of 'playbooks' and a 'feeling lucky' feature that can start building an app for you. [01:44], [02:21] - **Rapid Prototyping and Deployment**: Deploy your app to the web in one click via Google Cloud or to GitHub, enabling quick sharing and iteration, making it the fastest way to get feedback. [05:36], [09:33] - **Google AI Studio vs. Lovable and Other Tools**: Google AI Studio is positioned as a superior alternative to Lovable, offering free usage, deep Google service integration, and easier code export, making it ideal for rapid prototyping. [10:19], [10:33]

Topics Covered

  • Google's AI Studio: Build Apps Instantly, No API Keys.
  • Stuck for AI App Ideas? Google AI Studio Solves It.
  • The Fastest Way to Launch an AI Business Prototype?
  • Does Google AI Studio Replace Existing Prototyping Tools?
  • Google AI Studio: Unlocking Free AI App Development.

Full Transcript

Google did it. They released the easiest

way to build apps with AI ever. Google

AI Studio is Google's new vibe coding

platform they just released that I think

destroys Lovable. It's quick, easy,

integrated with Google's entire tech

stack, lets you launch apps in literally

seconds, and the best part of all,

completely free. So, there is no reason

at all you shouldn't be vibe coding as

we speak. I'm going to show you how it

works, how you can deploy a fully

working app on the web in seconds, and

let you know if this is the final vibe

coding platform you'll ever need. Let's

get into it. So, this was just released

moments ago. This is huge. This is

Google AI Studio Build. You can access

it at a.studio/build

right now. It is completely free. I'm

going to give you the full guide on how

to use it now, but here is the best

reason you need to be using Google AI

Studio. It is fully integrated with

every single Google AI product that's

ever been released. So in one click you

can build an app powered by Nano Banana.

So you can build just an image genen app

in one click. If you want you can build

a video gen app in one click using VO.

If you want you can build a a your own

AI chatbot powered by Gemini. And all of

this is done without having to manage

any sort of API keys. Right? That's the

advantage of Google building on top of

their own tech stack here is you can

just start making these incredible apps

with Google search, Google maps,

videogen, all that. And you're not

juggling API keys, signing up for a 100

different developer accounts anymore.

You're building these superpowered AI

apps in just one click, which you really

haven't been able to do with any other

vibe coding platform out there. That's

the best part. The second best part is

they have like a million different

playbooks you can use to build apps. So,

you don't have to come in here with any

sort of ideas. You can just go and say,

"Oh, interesting. I want to make a

Google Maps app or I want to make a

video gen app or I can even go into the

gallery mode and see a whole bunch of

examples of apps I can build off of."

They've eliminated what I think is the

most challenging part of vibe coding now

for 99% of people, which is the need to

come up with ideas. I think a lot of

people just can't come up with ideas for

apps. That challenge has been solved

because they have hundreds of these

cookbooks of ideas of what to build

around with. Or even if you want, you

can click I'm feeling lucky and it will

just start building an app for you and

come up with an idea. Okay, let's see

what he came up with. Let's create a

multimodal dream journal. I want to be

able to voice record my own dream

immediately upon walk waking while it's

fresh. The AI should transcribe it, then

generate a surrealist image. I didn't

even have to come with an idea. I just

click I'm feeling lucky and it's there.

There are a ton of other advantages I'm

about to show you once we get into

actually building the app that act that

make this probably the easiest way to

launch an app ever. But let's start

building our first app. Let me show you

how the prompting works and how you can

start building your first image genen

app. Here what I want to do is build an

image genen app where I can upload the

pictures of me and my friends and then

the Google nano banana will create

awesome pictures of us doing fun things

out in the world. I've been using Sora

the last couple weeks and all I've been

doing with it is just making videos of

me and my friends doing funny things.

So, let's do that but with photos and

I'll show you how you can build this and

launch this in like minutes. So, I'm

going to go here. I'm going to click on

Nano Banana powered app. So, this is

going to use the Nano Banana cookbook

here where it's now going to easily

build me an app that's powered by Nano

Banana, which if you don't know is the

best image gen model on planet Earth

right now. So, we we chose the Nano

Banana Cookbook, and now we just prompt

it like we would prompt any other app.

And again, this is why I think it's

better than Lovable is the integrations

here with Google's entire tech stack.

Lovable does have some integrations, I

think, with Superbase and Shopify and a

few others, but the fact that you can

get all these AI powered features built

in without having to manage API keys is

a game changer. So, if you want to

follow along with me, you can do that.

But let's prompt this and build our app.

So, here's the prompt I'm going to use.

I want to make an app where I can upload

the photos of me and friends and the app

creates realistic photos of us doing

cool things. It should be able to accept

multiple photos I can upload. Each photo

will be of an individual person. It will

then take all the faces of the people

from those individual photos and

generate a new image of them doing

something creative and fun. I'll put

that prompt down below if you just want

to follow along with me and copy.

Totally up to you. Some other cool

things here as well is they have speech

to text. So, if you just want to talk

this in as well, you can do that too.

But let's build this out. Let's hit hit

build here and Google will start

building out. And this screen should

look familiar to a lot of you if you use

more of the prototyping tools out there,

the lovables, the vzeros, the bolt. New

this is basically the same interface,

but with some cool things I'm about to

show you in a second that differentiates

this from those other platforms. But as

you can see, it is building it out and

it is going to put in its own API key

for a lot of these AI products. So we

don't have to go hunting around for a

nano banana key and a VO key and all

these other keys. It manages it for us

and if we want later we can put our own

API key so we don't hit limit. So as

this is building this does it pretty

fast actually. I am very impressed with

the speed of it. Let me quickly go over

what are the advantages of Google AI

Studio and the differences between AI

Studio and Lovable and Bolt and all

those. One, free to use. You can't even

pay for it. There's no place to put in

payments. It is completely free to use.

You can go right now and as long as you

have a Google account, which I imagine

everyone does, you can just start

building and launching and deploying

apps, which I'll show you the deployment

side in a second. It's integrated with

all the Google services as I showed you.

Oneclick deploy to web. This is really

cool. I can in one click get a link,

send it to all my friends, and

everyone's using my live app. Oneclick

deploy to GitHub, which is really sick.

This will make it very easy. So if you

start building your app in Google

studio, you get it on GitHub, then you

can start editing with cloud code in

like 10 seconds flat. So that is really

really convenient for editing with

claude code if you want to take it to

cursor, claude code, codeex, whatever

you're using. Tons of the cookbooks

available so you never have to come up

with ideas ever again. You can just

click I'm feeling lucky and apps will

just start appearing in front of you.

Uh, and it's the I in my opinion, as

you'll see in a second, the fastest way

to go from zero to one uh on the

internet building apps of vibe coding

and it just happens to be for the best

price. Let's go back in here and boom,

we have our app. Okay, so let's test it

out here. Gemini Fusion Photos. Let's

upload friends. So, I'm going to upload

a couple images of me and my friends.

So, let me choose a couple photos to use

here. I'm going to choose this excellent

image of me at a wedding. Boom. There we

go. Let's upload another photo here. And

I'm going to choose this image of my

friend Sam Altman. Okay, we hit put it

in. We have two images of people. Now,

let's see how good this is. Okay, so we

can describe a scene what we're going to

be in. Uh let's say that we are

exploring the moon together. All right,

now let's generate the photo. And now

let's see what we do this. So this is

again I showed you every part of this

creation process. I literally just put

in a couple sentence prompt. Build me an

image generation app where I can upload

photos and it makes us do cool things. I

didn't hook up any image generation

models or API keys or anything like

that. And boom, there's us. It didn't

use our faces. So, let's let's try a

different prompt here. Let's say uh

hiking up a mountain together. And I'm

going to say generate a photo. And let's

see what Nano Banana can come up with.

But again, this was just one prompt.

This was a oneshot prompt. I didn't have

to manage the API keys for Nano Banana.

I didn't have to hook this up with a

hundred different things. I didn't need

to know code. And here we are. Uh

there's three of us hiking up the

mountain. Uh I wouldn't say this looks

like us because uh neither of us have

facial hair. I don't know if neither me

or Sam Alman are capable of uh having of

growing facial hair. But there's an

image of three of us hiking up a

mountain. Let's see what this is bigger.

Let me check this out. Okay, maybe Nano

Banana can use a little work here

because this does not look like any of

us. They all have facial hair. But the

point being is this is you can build an

app that's hooked up to image generation

models, any of Google's products, and it

just works without having to manage

keys. Let's talk about a few of the

other amazing features here in Studio

Build, which I think this makes

spectacularly easy to use. If I click

right here, deploy app, it will just

deploy this to Google cloud. So I can do

create a new project. I can call this

photo app. I can create the project and

it is going to deploy this app to the

Google cloud. So I can in just a few

minutes have an app live on the web. For

Google Cloud, you have to have a credit

card plugged in, but I think there's a

pretty generous free tier where you can

just launch it and it's not going to

cost you any money. So that is really

easy. That's just a click to do. You can

host it on GitHub. So, if I want to real

quick save this to GitHub, I can select

my account and this will upload the code

to GitHub and I can just pull this down

into whatever AI coding tool I'm using,

like Claude Code for instance, like

cursor, like Codeex. And now I can

continue this everywhere else. You can

share the app. So, this is probably the

quickest way to have other people using

your app if you don't want to sign up

for Google Cloud and host it on the

cloud. But you can just click share and

then it just gives you a link and you

can take this link, you can tweet it

out. I think this is one of the best

ways to start an AI business. Start a

prototype like this. Get the link, tweet

it out on X, put it out on YouTube,

wherever you are, send it out, get

people using it, collect feedback, and

start iterating. This is a really good

way to start iterating on your app.

improving it and actually turning your

app into a business. If we want to

download the app, we can download all

the code really easily. This is one of

the limitations of a lot of the other

prototyping tools out there is they make

it fairly difficult to get the code for

your app so that you can do whatever you

want with it. They want you staying in

their ecosystem. So, being able to

one-click download the app is really

awesome. And then on top of a lot of

cool other features here, too. If we

want to check out the the app on mobile,

we can do that. If we want to check out

the app on tablet, we can do that. We

can do this in any sort of orientation

we want. So really easy to test out the

app. And then if I want to continue

iterating from here, I can go in here

and start asking for new features that

we can add onto the app. So the question

becomes this. When do you use Google AI

studio? Does it replace claude code?

Does it replace cursor? Does it replace

lovable? All those. Here I'll give you

the answer. For me, this is replacing

lovable. Right? This is the best way in

my opinion to get quick prototypes,

especially if you're going to be using

other Google services, right? Like if

you're planning on using Nano Banana,

which I think there's a million

different opportunities for building

image gen apps right now using Nano

Banana. If you want to do video gen

apps, that's a huge huge opportunity at

the moment. You can do that. If you want

to build your own chatbot, right, if

you're using any of Google's AI

services, which are becoming better and

better every single day, I'm probably

going to use Google AI Studio to get

those up and running because it will

know how to use those integrations

really well and just get them working,

right, without a lot of technical work.

This is also, I think, the fastest way

on planet Earth to get feedback from

users, right? If you have an idea for an

app and you want to start getting

feedback from people, you go into Google

AI Studio, you put in your idea, you

spin it up, right? You get a link, and

literally in four minutes, you can go

from idea to people using your

application and giving you feedback.

That is the fastest feedback loop you'll

ever have in the history technology in

your life. And that can only be done

through Google AI Studio. So, this is a

great opportunity if you need quick

feedback from users. And here's a really

important underrated one, right? Is if

you just want to have fun and find new

ideas. A lot of people, they think, "Oh,

I'm not going to vibe code. I don't have

the perfect idea yet." And they wait

around for the perfect idea and it

literally never comes. And they never

build anything. This is the best way to

come up with ideas. The best way to come

up with ideas is just to cook, right?

It's just to go in there, start playing

around, building things out, and as you

build things out, ideas will flow to

you. and you'll be able to build them

out and iterate and build out better

ideas. So, this is really good if you

just have a little extra time. You want

to play around, experiment with

different ideas and see what you come up

with. You need to be building that

creativity muscle in your head. And then

lastly, the last one's just tight on

money, right? This is free. You can't

get much cheaper than free. It's

completely free. You go into any of

these other prototyping tools and you

hit a payw wall in about 5 seconds. With

Google, like they don't even ask you for

a credit card here. You just start

coding. You just start vibe coding and

you have apps in minutes. That's pretty

amazing. If you are newer to vibe coding

or you just want a better prototyping

tool, I think it's going to be very hard

to beat Google's AI Studio at the

moment. They're only going to be adding

more features. There's going to be so

much more coming to this, especially

with what a little birdie tells me with

Gemini 3 coming out very soon. This is

only going to improve and get better. So

check it out. It's free. I think it's

cool. link down below for you to try it

out. Start playing around with the

different cookbooks and galleries and

try things out there. If you learned

anything at all, make sure to leave a

like. Let me know down in the comments

what's the first thing you're going to

build and if this replaces like a

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and hope you got a new cool tool to play

around with. AI has never been more

exciting.

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