Your Wildly Creative Work Deserves Its Own Wall

You do not need a developer, a website, or any technical skills to have a beautiful public space for your creative work. This experiment walks you through building your own online gallery from scratch using Lovable – an AI-powered tool that writes the code for you while you describe what you want.

Paintings, writing, music, photography, dance videos, sculpture – anything you make can live here, organised and displayed your way.

See it live – Galerie – a working example

This is a fully built gallery platform created using exactly the process below. Browse it to get a feel for what yours could look like before you start.View Galerie ↗

What you will build

Your gallery will have everything you need to share your work publicly and keep it looking exactly the way you want it.

Your own rooms: Create separate spaces for different types of work – one for paintings, one for writing, one for music.

Public sharing: Each room gets its own link you can share anywhere – no account required for visitors.

Your style: Choose your layout, colours, and fonts. It looks like yours, not a generic template.

Any media type: Upload images, audio, video, PDFs, or text – whatever your creative work looks like.

Private option: Keep rooms private until you are ready to share, or keep some work just for yourself.

Free to start: Lovable has a free tier that is more than enough to build and launch your gallery.

Before you start

You will need two things: a free Lovable account and a Google account (for signing into your gallery once it is built). That is it. No coding knowledge, no design experience, no technical setup.

How Lovable works: Lovable is an AI tool that builds web applications from plain English descriptions. You describe what you want, it writes the code and shows you the result. If something is not right, you describe the change and it updates. You are always in charge of what gets built – without having to touch any code.

Step by step

1. Create your Lovable account: Go to lovable.dev and sign up for a free account. You can sign in with Google, which makes things faster. Once you are in, you will see a dashboard where your projects live.
   
2. Start a new project: Click New Project. You will see a chat box where you describe what you want to build. This is where you paste your starting prompt — the instructions that tell Lovable what kind of gallery to create.
   
   One important thing: Lovable builds one feature at a time. Do not try to describe everything at once in your first message. Start with the prompt below, let it build the foundation, then add features one by one in follow-up messages. This is how you get the best results.
   
3. Paste your starting prompt: Copy the prompt below and paste it into Lovable as your first message. This gives it everything it needs to build the core of your gallery. You will customise the details – your name, your colours, your creative categories – in the steps that follow.

Your starting prompt — copy and paste into Lovable

“Build me a beautiful online gallery platform where I can showcase my creative work. I want to be able to: – Sign in with Google – Create multiple “rooms” — separate gallery spaces for different types of work (for example: paintings, writing, music, photography) – Upload files to each room — images, audio, video, and documents – Give each room its own public link I can share with anyone, without them needing to sign in – Keep some rooms private until I am ready to share them – Customise each room with a title, description, and layout (grid or slideshow) – Arrange my pieces in whatever order I like The design should feel like a beautiful editorial gallery — warm, clean, and elegant. Use a cream background, dark charcoal text, and a serif font for headings. Make it fully mobile-friendly. Start with the authentication and the ability to create and view rooms. We will add the file upload and other features next.”

4. Review what Lovable built: Lovable will show you a preview of your gallery as it builds. It usually takes a minute or two. Once it is done, click the preview to see what it looks like. At this stage you should have a home page, a sign-in option, and the ability to create rooms. If anything looks off, describe the change in plain language — “make the heading larger” or “change the background to a warmer white” — and Lovable will update it.

How to give good feedback: Be specific about what you want changed. “I don’t like it” is hard to act on. “The font feels too small on mobile” or “I want the room cards to show the title more prominently” gives Lovable something clear to work with.

5. Add your personal details: Once the foundation looks good, tell Lovable to personalise it. Send a follow-up message like the one below.

Follow-up prompt to copy – personalise your gallery: “Please add a profile section where I can add my name, a short bio, and a profile photo. The gallery name should appear at the top of the page. Also update the colour scheme to use [describe your preferred colours — for example: “soft sage green and warm cream” or “deep navy and white”].”

6. Add file uploading: Now add the ability to upload your actual work. Send this as a separate message once the previous step looks right.

Follow-up prompt to copy – add uploads: “Now add the ability to upload pieces to each room. I want to be able to upload image files, audio files, video files, and PDFs. Each piece should have a title, an optional description, and a date. I should be able to drag and drop to reorder pieces within a room. When a visitor clicks on a piece, it should open in a larger view.”

7. Test everything: Before sharing your gallery, test the full journey yourself. Sign in, create a room, upload a piece, set the room to public, copy the room link, and open it in a private browser window as if you were a visitor. Check that everything looks right and that your work displays properly.

Check this before going public: In Lovable, click the Shield icon and run a security scan. Fix any issues it flags before you publish. This takes two minutes and makes sure your gallery is set up safely.

8. Publish and share: When you are ready, click Publish in Lovable. Your gallery gets its own web address – something like yourname.lovable.app – which you can share anywhere: social media, email, your bio link, wherever you want people to find your work. Each room also has its own link, so you can share individual collections separately.

Updating after publishing: When you make changes to the design or add new features, you need to click Update in the publish dialog to push the changes live. When you add new pieces or rooms through the gallery itself, those appear immediately – no republishing needed.

9. Keep building: Your gallery grows with you. Some things to add when you are ready – each one as a separate Lovable message:+A contact form so visitors can reach you +A featured room on your home page +A slideshow layout for a more immersive experience +Your own domain name instead of .lovable.app +A statement or artist bio page.

The most important thing to remember: Build slowly. One feature at a time, test it, then add the next. This is how you avoid things breaking and how you end up with a gallery that actually works the way you want it to. If something goes wrong, describe the problem to Lovable in plain language and it will fix it. You are never stuck.

A note on your data

Lovable stores your gallery and uploaded files on its own infrastructure. Your work is yours — Lovable does not claim ownership of anything you upload. Private rooms are only visible to you when signed in. Public rooms are visible to anyone with the link. You can delete your project at any time.

For anything you consider sensitive or irreplaceable, keep a backup copy on your own device as well.