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And now I wonder if by any means we can connect lovable to Etsy to create the listings.

Well, I had a cute coloring pages store on Etsy an year ago and I was actually making a few sales and taking some money home. But the whole listing process was HARD. I ended up having a burnout in the end because I was also managing being a single mom and having a full time job.

I wanted to know if anyone ever tried to have some kind of app connected to Etsy that helped us streamline the workflow or not. I am actually thinking about creating one but I’m not sure this is even allowed by them 🙃

For example, I now have my own app for my products and I created in the admin a connector to Pinterest that allows connecting another app with an API. Maybe something like this would also work for Etsy?

If so, which features would a app need to be useful for you?

I’m just really brainstorming here, sorry!! And thank you for reading!!

I'm a mom of two and a year ago I had a little coloring page business that started as something I made just for fun. Just to destress from my 9 to 5 and create something that my kids would love. I created an Etsy store just trying to also make some extra money to pay for vacations but there was a huge problem I did not expect. Upload a listing, create the mockups, fix the tags, keyword rich title, do it again and again, forever and ever. And this was quite boring and I hated it. Between that and everything else on my plate at the time, I hit a proper burnout at the end of the year and in the end, I wasn't creating anymore, I was just maintaining a storefront with a whole bunch I could do instead.

That burnout is actually what pushed me to start learning lovable, and building things myself instead of depending on platforms that weren't built for me. One thing led to another and I ended up running a small studio, building apps for other people, which is a strange kind of irony, spending my days solving other entrepreneurs problems while the business that started it all was still stuck manually uploading to Etsy.

So I finally turned that skill back on myself. I went to bed with this idea about my coloring pages, so I opened Claude and started to brainstorm with it, just wanting my own space for the coloring pages instead of another listing on someone else's platform. That turned into building an actual subscription app from scratch, learning as I went. I hooked up the Pinterest API so new pages get pinned and found without me sitting there manually posting every single one. I built scheduled publishing so pages go live on their own. I build an importer to reuse some of my coloring books there. I built collections so people can grab a themed batch at once instead of one page at a time. I even built an AI matching feature that pairs someone's colored in submission back to the original page automatically. I am still building to be honest because there is always some crazy new ideia that makes me think if it’s possible at all.

None of that existed a few months ago. I just kept adding pieces as I needed them, and somewhere in there Lovable stopped being a tool and started being the reason I look forward to building this coloring business thing again.

Many are talking badly about lovable here. And it’s not cheap, I know. But watching an idea go from a sentence I typed at midnight to a feature that's actually live and working, that's worth paying for. If burnout is what's pushing you toward building your own thing too, I'd say let it. Mine gave me back a business, and then a whole studio.

And if you are curious, here is my app: www.onceuponacolour.com