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A first-time founder just hit $456k ARR and 10k users with Lovable in 3 months. The app she built is called Plinq, a women’s safety platform that gives instant access to public criminal records, helping prevent violence before it happens. The founder, Sabrine Matos, is from Brazil and turned a personal mission into a fast-growing product, all built with Lovable! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d9QDcMk5

Had a great time discussing the future of design together with Ivan (Notion) and Anton (Lovable) 🔥 A good reminder to do more in-person events. It's just a different energy. Few takeaways: 1) AI won't replace designers, but it will fundamentally change how we work → Shifting focus from execution to strategy and creative direction 2) The best designers ship, learn, and iterate at lightning speed. Fast feedback loops are becoming the ultimate competitive advantage in design 3) There's something special about hiring young talent. They're not anchored to old design paradigms and are experiencing AI as natives, bringing fresh perspectives Thanks everyone for joining! Shoutout to Sophia and Hanna for stellar organization!!

Introducing Lovable File Uploads Drop files directly into Lovable and turn them into apps and websites. Here’s what this makes possible: 1. Turn a sheet (CSV/XLSX) → interactive dashboards with charts. 2. Turn your resume (PDF) → a personal website or portfolio. 3. Turn a slide deck (PPTX/PDF) → custom presentation. 4. Turn a video or audio file (MP4, MP3) → embedded media in your app. 5. Turn font file (TTF, OTF) → custom font in your app. ... and much more To try it out: Upload your resume/CV to Lovable and tell it to build you a personal website. Share it in a quote-repost of this post, we’ll repost our favorites!

🔥 Announcing SheBuilds, by Lovable 🔥 A buildathon designed *for women*, by women at Lovable. /Oct 6-7 /48 hours /Remote /Unlimited Lovable credits to build /5K credits winning prize + mentorship with me Doesn’t matter if you’re a vibe-coding pro or totally new - this is your chance to ship something awesome. And there is no better time than NOW. Why? Because women are *still* massively underrepresented in founder roles. Vibe coding can change that. Let’s prove it, one buildathon at a time. APPLY HERE: https://lnkd.in/gpzsUR-R Please share to spread the word! #WomenInTech

We’re hosting Shebuilds – a Lovable hackathon for women who want to create, experiment, and bring ideas to life. Whether you’ve coded before or not, Shebuilds is designed to be welcoming and supportive. The goal is simple: give women the space, tools, and encouragement to turn ideas into something real. Applications close Sept 29: shebuilds.lovable.app

Two weeks ago I became Lovable's Head of Marketing. I feel incredibly humbled and grateful for this opportunity. Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin are next level founders. The growth we're experiencing is unprecedented. The product potential is massive. But that isn't why I'm making this leap. I'm doing it because Lovable is the antidote to the AI-reckoning. The answer to the fear, uncertainty & doubt around what AI will do to humanity's agency, creativity and purpose. Lovable truly turns everyone into a builder. Our customer stories are mind blowing. We are seeing: - The most unlikely founders emerge from places and backgrounds that you never expected - Kids building their first full-stack apps at surprisingly tender ages, realizing the digital world is theirs to shape - Organic, bottoms up adoption in massive enterprises - Teams that were gated by engineering newly unleashed, launching products that instantly grow to million-dollar revenue streams. When I joined Lovable part time I thought that our tagline "building the last piece of software" was wishful thinking. Now that I've seen how it has taken off in the world (in less than a year - our product turns 1 year old in November!) I actually believe that it's possible. I've joined to help make that vision a reality. There's so much to do. Team, you have built something truly special and I'm very grateful to be part of it. As you can imagine, I'm hiring. If you know or are a fantastic marketer, I want to talk. This is a rocket ship, come get onboard. 🚀 🫶 Pictured: how I spend my days with Anton. I'm going to continue working from the Bay Area, with frequent Stockholm visits, starting next week!

Winning Teams Hire Founders 🔥 The best companies aren’t run by people doing jobs. They’re run by people acting like the company is theirs. High urgency. Deep customer obsession. A willingness to push far beyond any job description. I realized this early at Lovable. From the start it was obvious that everyone cared about the product and the company vision with an intensity I hadn’t seen elsewhere. It was as if each person behaved like they were a founder themselves. And that changed everything. Most people don’t get that being a “founder” isn’t about the title. It’s a mindset. And once you pick it up, building stops feeling like work. It becomes fun, almost addictive. You care more, you improve faster, and you end up outperforming everyone else. The Hiring Trap: The conventional wisdom says that as companies grow, they need to specialize. Clear roles, narrow expertise, tidy swim lanes. It sounds professional. But in practice it kills the very energy that made the company succeed in the first place. Regular employees wait for direction. Founder-minded employees create their own. They optimize for the mission, not just their function. Why don’t more companies hire this way? Because it’s harder. You can check whether someone knows a specific tool. You can’t check ownership as easily. Hiring processes optimize for what’s easy to measure, not for what matters. This is why so many teams feel mechanical. They’re full of people optimized for doing their jobs, not for building the company. The Founder Type: The irony is that people with a founder mindset rarely look like perfect candidates on paper. They’re generalists. They’ve switched between roles. They’ve run side projects, sometimes unsuccessfully. They care more about outcomes than titles. To a hiring manager, that looks like inconsistency. In reality, it’s initiative. At Lovable, this mindset is what keeps the company in motion. Everyone behaves as if the company’s success is their personal mission. And when enough people do that, momentum compounds. The company stops being something you work at and becomes something you push forward, so strongly that slowing down doesn’t even feel like an option. Hiring “founders” doesn’t literally mean only people who’ve started companies. It means people who think like owners: urgent, customer-obsessed, unwilling to let problems slide. People who bend reality instead of waiting for instructions. Read full article on my blog: https://lnkd.in/eFDNgzmp

🧡 Lovable is coming to the Rillet AI Summit next week in SF!! 💜 Most conferences are boring. Like really boring. The only fun parts are the networking. We wanted to do it differently at Rillet. Yes, we'll hear from real AI CFOs on how they're using AI on their teams and how their business models work. It's going to be epic. But we're not just going to talk about AI. We're getting hands on. Literally. Fabian Hedin, the founder of Lovable, is going to lead us in a vibe-coding session tailored for CFOs and Controllers. We'll build our own apps and AI agents. From ideation to production. When I first vibe-coded on Lovable, it broke my brain. It felt like I was in a science fiction movie. I just told Lovable what I wanted and it built it, even making suggestions for how I could improve my app. Hackathons aren't just for developers anymore. And you don't have to be vibe-code your financials to be a vibe-coding CFO. If you're in SF next week.....don't miss this :D PS - the legendary Mindaugas Petrutis will be joining us as well. This man is the vibe coder of vibe coders (and his LinkedIn content is killer).

Today at 9am PST, we're joining a livestream with Anthropic to talk about: 1. How Lovable has implemented Claude 2. Real metrics from users 3. Practical implementation strategies See you there! Link to join: https://lnkd.in/dsfhq_KV

Lovable and Notion are co-hosting a community meet up on Oct 7th in SF! Join me and Andrew Silard, Notion's Head of Growth Marketing, for a fire-side chat and a happy hour @ Notion's HQ!!! See you there? https://luma.com/y9vr4hcn #growth