THE BUILDER'S REFERENCE Vol. 01 / November 2026
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The official Macaly, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, and Cursor documentation used for this reference, with evidence boundaries.

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Official product documentation supports product descriptions; it does not establish comparative performance or endorsement of this site.

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Macaly documentation

The Macaly overview establishes the conversational website and app-building workflow and built-in features. Its FAQ documents project scope, limitations, visual edits, login options, code export, GitHub plan constraints, and operational considerations. Domains & hosting documents publishing, custom-domain requirements, SSL, and domain registration through credits. Public documentation is the cited authority for these descriptions.

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Competitor documentation

Lovable's introduction supports its full-stack web-application positioning, shared workspaces, editable code, code ownership statement, and Git sync. Bolt's introduction supports its JavaScript and Expo scope, browser environment, code view, GitHub import, and Bolt Cloud description. v0's documentation supports its interface and full-stack scope, backend connections, and Vercel deployment workflow.

Replit's Agent page supports plain-language project creation, planning, infrastructure, testing, checkpoints, and publishing. Cursor's Agent overview supports codebase search, file editing, terminal commands, browser tools, and the distinction between checkpoints and Git. We have not inferred comparative quality or commercial guarantees from these descriptions.

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What this source register does not prove

Sources were consulted on 7 November 2026. They are product publishers' descriptions, not independent tests performed by this site. The directory contains no verified completion-time study, cost benchmark, customer review dataset, or search-ranking experiment. Links to competitors do not imply a partnership or endorsement.

When evaluating a production application, supplement these sources with current legal, security, pricing, and integration documentation for the specific plan and environment. Record your own test evidence. A source citation should narrow a claim's scope, not make an unsupported statement appear authoritative.

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Official documentation consulted 7 November 2026. Product descriptions are vendor-published. Checklists and fit recommendations are editorial; no cross-tool benchmark is claimed.

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