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We all have been there, we lose service or it barely works and as we build our apps to try and compete with the titans, we notice that offline work is not that great.

When building Ailevo, since it revolves around travel where some may have the phone service to have signal and some go rogue and only use WiFi, I had to be different. That is why I focused heavily on the offline capabilities, after much trial and error, I found that a PWA can be built to work or at least get by use the phones cache stored for later use, kinda like a safety. That prompted me to shift into this and build this offline capability to the best I can.

I am nowhere near a crazy developer nor an engineer, and a lot of it is AI assisted by Lovable, Cursor, Claude, perplexity. Now I do not build the first thing they recommend and dump the code into lovable/ cursor to start building. But I challenge it.

Since I am not a seasoned engineer, and I am still learning and growing. I had to do a lot of trial and error with this offline feature. It has helped out so far and I know it can be developed more but not too bad for a weekend warrior building a micro SaaS PWA while juggling, golf, traveling, career, and family.

I am curious to know everyone’s experience with a offline feature for a PWA.

I love this community and how we all help each other with opinions and experiences and how we contribute to each other’s post.

PS. I hope we all continue building and growing and we all succeed.

I’ve come to realized that a PWA is underestimated, everyone is chasing that App Store/ Google store Goal. But get hit with the reality of the aggressive tweet their app must pass to be even considered, in fairness to The store they have to protect it from all angles but still is a massive wall that will block you time and time if you are not prepared for it. Not to mention once you are in, the cut the big guys get from your revenue, soemtimes as high as 35%. The exposure might be good but is it worth it?

I personally think depending on your product you don’t need an App Store, a PWA works just as great and some cases even better. You have no major store road blocks and at times is easier to build. Some major tech companies started off and still are a PWA. Mine is and I intend to leave as such since my product works either way with or without a store.

If you dedicated some time to your build and really focus on the offline abilities using your phones cache and memory you can have it function with some limitations even if there is no service. You can even create a home icon just like an App Store but it just takes you to their link.

I am curious who rather have a PWA only product or want to jump the hurdles in order to get into the stores.

I am sure we have a big mixed crowd and I’m curious what everyone prefers.

We are entering a phase where there is so many helpful software to help you create products and manage it and even make them Go viral.

I am sure many of us have tested and tried a ton of them in order to get the golden combination that works best for our work flow.

Personally since I am fairly new to it, I like the combination of Lovable, reinforced with Cursor for the heavy code lifting, all synced to GitHub. As I continue to learn and grow I will eventually migrate out of lovable and stick with cursor and possibly Claude full time while also using Supabase , Vercel, and N8N. Another fav of mine is perplexity for the Research phase of things.

I have just had a great experience with lovable and their ease of building a nice UI. But the secret sauce for me is cursor, having it do the heavy lifting just changes things.

I am sure some might think my stack sucks or it’s a newbie stack , but it works for me and my workflow I am nowhere near a tech code wizard but everyday I understand it better.

I am curious what is everyone’s go to stack is. And for those who are true engineers, how much legacy coding do you still do? Or have you slowly jumped on board and use an open AI or Claude model to do the super heavy lifting?

Let’s not forget those Ollama people out there running a beefy setup to avoid all the annoying subscriptions and token cost.

As I continue my journey of building and now soft launching my first micro SaaS, you can’t help but enjoy less pressure of competing with the giants.

For me choosing the micro SaaS route lets me focus on it more, and dedicate the time I need to it while also maintaining a full time job and family.

I am not saying it is easy, every SaaS comes with its difficulty. But nothing beats the learning process and the humbleness of failing and going back to the drawing board.

Am I alone on this?

How do you prepare for travel?
There are so many ways to go about it—from the “wing it” crowd to the “you can never be too prepared” type.
Has anyone else ever found themselves stuck in the endless loop of tabs on tabs on tabs? Late nights researching, just trying to figure out if a destination is actually safe—whether it’s a planned vacation or a last-minute escape.
How do you factor in safety and everything else that comes with traveling? Whether it’s with your family, a group of friends, or just you and your partner.
I’ve been traveling for the past 12 years for both work and personal trips, and I’ve never really been able to escape that rabbit hole. There’s always another thing to check, another angle to consider, another “just to be safe” tab open. And with everything going on in the world right now, those concerns feel more real than ever.
Now, as a husband and a father, it hits differently. You can’t help but think more critically about where you’re going and whether it’s truly a safe place to bring your family.
Curious how everyone else approaches it—whether you travel solo, with family, or mainly for work.

I want to give a shout out to the solo and team founders out there grinding away, sometimes into the middle of the night. From the full timers to the ones who juggle a full time job, and we cannot forget the family founders out there juggling a family and all of the above.

As the average consumer sleeps, here we are plotting away and building what we think will help this world. What a beautiful time to be alive as we all tap into our creativity and embrace our full brain capacity to bring to life amazing products in all fields.

Never give up, keep strong. And I hope we all succeed. And do not forget to rest and enjoy a little friends and family time.

I want to give a shout out to the solo and team founders out there grinding away, sometimes into the middle of the night. From the full timers to the ones who juggle a full time job, and we cannot forget the family founders out there juggling a family and all of the above.

As the average consumer sleeps, here we are plotting away and building what we think will help this world. What a beautiful time to be alive as we all tap into our creativity and embrace our full brain capacity to bring to life amazing products in all fields.

Never give up, keep strong. And I hope we all succeed!

How do you prepare for travel?
There are so many ways to go about it—from the “wing it” crowd to the “you can never be too prepared” type.
Has anyone else ever found themselves stuck in the endless loop of tabs on tabs on tabs? Late nights researching, just trying to figure out if a destination is actually safe—whether it’s a planned vacation or a last-minute escape.
How do you factor in safety and everything else that comes with traveling? Whether it’s with your family, a group of friends, or just you and your partner.
I’ve been traveling for the past 12 years for both work and personal trips, and I’ve never really been able to escape that rabbit hole. There’s always another thing to check, another angle to consider, another “just to be safe” tab open. And with everything going on in the world right now, those concerns feel more real than ever.
Now, as a husband and a father, it hits differently. You can’t help but think more critically about where you’re going and whether it’s truly a safe place to bring your family.
Curious how everyone else approaches it—whether you travel solo, with family, or mainly for work.

As my wife prepares for a work trip we always encounter that dreaded moment, how are the conditions of the location? Is it safe, is there any unrest? How can we fully prepare so she is safe and I have peace of mind her traveling alone.

One day I woke up tired of always trying to get a real answer from chat gpt and other AI models and end up lacking the realness. Or before the AI days, having endless tabs of government sites and health sites that are a true resource to current conditions. I also So I decided to build Ailevo on my spare time between juggling a full time job, being a husband and now a new father.

Ailevo safety travel companion that uses 50 government and growing sources. Where you are given a multi page in depth brief of your location of travel, and have Sera a AI chat assisting you before and durning your travel. You also have access to others safety features, like trip sharing, offline cache mode where if you lose service you can still have access to certain features. As a bonus there is also a safety route planner where it gives you the best route possible based on the location and cited government sources.

One principle thing Ailevo was built on is Privacy, where in its code there is no auto background tracking and no ads to bother you on your trip. We also incorporated a wipe my trip/data function that auto deletes your data of of Ailevo 7 days post your trip. You do not want to wait the 7 days? In our settings you can delete your data and trip right away.

As we just did a soft launch we are getting feedback so we make Ailevo better then its previous version. My goal is to always improve it and continue to help all travelers. Making it a one stop safety spot backed by real goverment sources. If the sources cannot be gathered for any reason, it will simply decline to fabricate anything and prompt you to check back later.

In the up coming weeks, I will post screen shots and feature descriptions of Ailevo as a whole, so I can help relieve the pain of multi tabs searching and the uncertainty of “ is it safe to travel here”.