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Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (co-founder and CEO)

9 Mar 2025 35 published claims 2 attributable people
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belief 16evaluation 4preference 4uncertainty 3observation 3commitment 3recommendation 1prediction 1

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01 / evaluation

Yeah. So we launched Lovable less than three months ago, and now we have 300,000 monthly active users and 30,000 of those are actually paying and it is growing at the same rates, just almost only through organic word of mouth.

“Yeah. So we launched Lovable less than three months ago, and now we have 300,000 monthly active users and 30,000 of those are actually paying and it is growing at the same rates, just almost only through organic word of mouth.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

I think if you spend a full week on trying to reach an outcome, the best way to learn is I want to do this thing and then I want to use AI to do that thing.

“I think if you spend a full week on trying to reach an outcome, the best way to learn is I want to do this thing and then I want to use AI to do that thing.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

There's something you said kind of along these lines that I think is important that one of the things that gets you excited about what you're building is giving people super powers and especially people that don't add a code, basically 99% of people.

“There's something you said kind of along these lines that I think is important that one of the things that gets you excited about what you're building is giving people super powers and especially people that don't add a code, basically 99% of people.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

I am a bit hard-pressed to find something that totally failed, but I think there's a bit of a product lesson where I was the first employee at an AI startup here in Stockholm called Summer Labs, and the premise was just, okay, so humans learn in different ways.

“I am a bit hard-pressed to find something that totally failed, but I think there's a bit of a product lesson where I was the first employee at an AI startup here in Stockholm called Summer Labs, and the premise was just, okay, so humans learn in different ways.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / commitment

We just launched this a few days ago, but I won't go into for building the full functionality, but what it looks like is that you connect an open source backend as a service and that's called SuperBase.

“We just launched this a few days ago, but I won't go into for building the full functionality, but what it looks like is that you connect an open source backend as a service and that's called SuperBase.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / belief

You want people who can ship really fast and have good taste for what this simple, what's the right abstractions and I think that's what we've done differently and have this obsession for us making it better and better and better.

“You want people who can ship really fast and have good taste for what this simple, what's the right abstractions and I think that's what we've done differently and have this obsession for us making it better and better and better.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / uncertainty

I see. And this is a common problem people have with tools like this is they get to a certain point and then it's like, "Well I don't know what to do.

“I see. And this is a common problem people have with tools like this is they get to a certain point and then it's like, "Well I don't know what to do.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / belief

Then something that I think is more uncommon is that we do, I pretty much always have people join the work simulation for at least a day, often a full week.

“Then something that I think is more uncommon is that we do, I pretty much always have people join the work simulation for at least a day, often a full week.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

22 / observation

The reason is to enable those who have had such a hard time finding people who are good at creating software that's been their absolute bottleneck and let them take their ideas and their dreams into reality.

“The reason is to enable those who have had such a hard time finding people who are good at creating software that's been their absolute bottleneck and let them take their ideas and their dreams into reality.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

23 / belief

Already today you can just ask, add and chat with OpenAI and then you get the chat with OpenAI in your product. But that's just working perfectly is something that's coming in the coming two years, I would say.

“Already today you can just ask, add and chat with OpenAI and then you get the chat with OpenAI in your product. But that's just working perfectly is something that's coming in the coming two years, I would say.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

24 / belief

There are many scaling laws I would say when you build AI systems and this one in particular is about when you put in more work, the product reliably gets better and better.

“There are many scaling laws I would say when you build AI systems and this one in particular is about when you put in more work, the product reliably gets better and better.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

25 / belief

When we were setting up, you're like, "Oh, our engineer's creating content now." I think that's a cool example of how people do a lot of different things.

“When we were setting up, you're like, "Oh, our engineer's creating content now." I think that's a cool example of how people do a lot of different things.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

26 / evaluation

For a product like ours, it's hard to be have product managers that are not engineers say, oh, this is what we should do now because the right solution to the problem might be entangled in things that are technical details.

“For a product like ours, it's hard to be have product managers that are not engineers say, oh, this is what we should do now because the right solution to the problem might be entangled in things that are technical details.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

27 / evaluation

The engineer skill set is still going to be important because that helps you understand what are the constraints, so what you can build and I just think a lot of software engineers are probably a bit scared now like, "Okay, am I out of a job?

“The engineer skill set is still going to be important because that helps you understand what are the constraints, so what you can build and I just think a lot of software engineers are probably a bit scared now like, "Okay, am I out of a job?”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

28 / prediction

Because you have 18 people building in a company that's growing more than a million ARR every week. That's an absurd scale and the people you have found are clearly world-class and I think a lot of people are going to want to hire the type of people you're hiring.

“Because you have 18 people building in a company that's growing more than a million ARR every week. That's an absurd scale and the people you have found are clearly world-class and I think a lot of people are going to want to hire the type of people you're hiring.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

29 / preference

" Is the best way to be productive is also one of the best ways to just learn about how software engineering works, which is you don't have to write the code anymore, but it is useful to understand how software engin- or how building products works. So I think that's the patience and curiosity is super useful.

“" Is the best way to be productive is also one of the best ways to just learn about how software engineering works, which is you don't have to write the code anymore, but it is useful to understand how software engin- or how building products works. So I think that's the patience and curiosity is super useful.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

30 / evaluation

People were saying like, "Oh, you're shipping so fast." And we were all quite frustrated because we wrote our service in this kind of scripting language and then as we started scaling, we were just, no, we have to throw everything away and rewrite it in a more performant way.

“People were saying like, "Oh, you're shipping so fast." And we were all quite frustrated because we wrote our service in this kind of scripting language and then as we started scaling, we were just, no, we have to throw everything away and rewrite it in a more performant way.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

31 / preference

A lot of jargon that I like to use to emphasize what we should be striving for is building a minimum Lovable product and then building a Lovable product and then building an absolutely Lovable product.

“A lot of jargon that I like to use to emphasize what we should be striving for is building a minimum Lovable product and then building a Lovable product and then building an absolutely Lovable product.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

32 / preference

Something that's different from I think all the other tools is that it is synchronized with GitHub and that means that you can use Cursor, or the people in your team that want to be more low-level, they can use Cursor and while the people who don't want to mess and set up their local file system and commit to GitHub and so on, they can use Lovable's.

“Something that's different from I think all the other tools is that it is synchronized with GitHub and that means that you can use Cursor, or the people in your team that want to be more low-level, they can use Cursor and while the people who don't want to mess and set up their local file system and commit to GitHub and so on, they can use Lovable's.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

33 / commitment

This is not going to change anything in the coming years." So I wanted to prove a point and I created an open source tool called GPT Engineer where you write something like create a snake game and then it spits out a lot of code, a little of different files and then opens the snake game.

“This is not going to change anything in the coming years." So I wanted to prove a point and I created an open source tool called GPT Engineer where you write something like create a snake game and then it spits out a lot of code, a little of different files and then opens the snake game.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

34 / observation

We have a lot of designers and product managers that create the first version of their product ideas to show to the teams, and some of them become founders because of the empowerment from this, but also developers themselves, they actually writing code or creating products much faster.

“We have a lot of designers and product managers that create the first version of their product ideas to show to the teams, and some of them become founders because of the empowerment from this, but also developers themselves, they actually writing code or creating products much faster.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

35 / preference

We're not going to settle for all the annoying bad technology that we use today. And everyone who has an idea is going to say, "Okay, I'm going to build this thing and show you that this is the best version of the product or what our company should be doing," instead of having long meetings or writing up documents.

“We're not going to settle for all the annoying bad technology that we use today. And everyone who has an idea is going to say, "Okay, I'm going to build this thing and show you that this is the best version of the product or what our company should be doing," instead of having long meetings or writing up documents.”
Speaker
Anton Osika
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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