Lovable raises $400M Series C

hudn33

This is crazy. Do people still use Lovable, I know they were super popular before Codex/Claude Code, but since then, I feel most people (even non-engineers from what I seen) have moved to these tools. Is Lovable still the easiest way to get an site/app going? And as a side note, what are people's thought on the best coding agent for frontend dev?

edoceo

Wonder of any of the early money got out. Very little visibility to the secondary market on these things. I remember back in dot-com days folk would take leverage on their unrealized gains. Didn't work out that well. Selling at small discount in the secondary, which was mocked, turned out to be a good play. Seems lots of the market for tools like this is un-moat-able. Hopefully someone smarter than me shares their experience with that.

GenerWork

I feel like this valuation could be cut by 75% if Anthropic paid more attention to Claude Design.

orf

My friend built his niche news site with lovable. He used Wordpress as a headless CMS, and lovable built some absolute monstrosity with cloudflare workers - every page view incurred a call to Wordpress, no proper caching and it was slow as hell. It was just Wordpress but with 10 extra layers. 3+ second TTFB. He didn’t have the technical skills to know why it was a monstrosity, or how to prompt his way out of it. For him a static site was a better choice, but apparently lovable will only use their own framework called “Tanstack Start”? You can’t get it to build you an AstroJS site. I got him to switch to Cursor and he rebuilt the whole site with Astro and cloudflare pages in a couple of days. It’s now blazing fast.

dogmayor

blah blah bubble

P4u1

This is not crazy. What's crazy is one of their favourte stories, Viver de IA [Brazil], a company that uses AI to build an AI education company.

boredumb

As someone who is fully bootstrapped and not looking for funding, I may be oblivious but some of the numbers I see versus the products I see i'm wondering if I should not be using my own capital and see if asking nicely can get me 200 million dollars

sixdimensional

I appreciate what Lovable did as far as contributing to giving people agency over technology to build things, whether they were ideally built or not, from an engineering perspective. I can't help but feel deep down somewhere inside though - boy.. $400M is so much money - whenever I see these kind of huge raises, I kind of wonder, how likely is it to fail when you have been granted such an enormous opportunity, plus all the other money they've raised. This question isn't limited to Lovable of course.. but it's just.. wow.. it's so much runway... will they end up spending it wisely? I feel like a lot of companies end up spending this on scaling out sales, sales engineering, marketing, advertising, splinter/side efforts, tons of hiring/headcount expansion, global expansion, acquisitions... and this often makes the companies big, slow-moving behemoths, but does it really advance the core mission, technology, infra, etc.? Will be interesting to see where this takes lovable. Congratulations to their team!

Taikhoom10

This is the clearest example of how companies with little differentiation fail. Enterprise companies would prefer Lovable bundled with a product they already use, ex. Figma. You probably need vertical integration to build real AI businesses; it feels like Silicon Valley forces new paradigms, while AI feels like something that can be bundled in with existing companies. Clouds are still the distribution, the pre AI enterpise domiance remains through bundling. Maybe OpenAI can do something special by owning the whole stack? https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/the-struggle-of-openai/

nylonstrung

I think Lovable is a very dumb product and that virtually anyone of any level of technical knowhow would be better served by using normal agents or perhaps Replit The fact that "1.2M projects" are made weekly yet seemingly none of consequence speaks for itself

bluelu

I have recently gotten access to lightscale.ai, which is still in private beta, and I'm impressed. They have a different approach to lovable, replit, etc... They don't let the gpt models translate directly into program code, but into an intermediate language which is then compiled by a compiler. Generation speed is blazingly fast, and so far results look great. I really like that I can work on an app without having to wait between my prompts and can see the results nearly instantly. Apparently it's safer too, as code generation is deterministic. But I did not check that yet, as I only recently got access.

mrhottakes

Where are all the big world-changing apps that were vibe coded on this platform?

k1w1

Lovable is dominating the generic AI application creation market, but ultimately I think the market is going to segment with products like Aha! Builder https://www.aha.io/builder/overview to support more business use-cases. Adoption of AI application building technologies in most enterprises is much more about governance and security than it is about any particular coding feature.

throw03172019

I recently replaced a Wordpress based website. I tried Claude Design, epic failure. Context windows exploding due to huge html files inlining images. I ended up dropping it for a design guide from designer and then used Cursor to build an Astro site section by section instead of the whole page. The flexibility of having code to view and edit was way better than these black box programs. Lovable funding is insane. And scary.

bix6

I read the announcement honestly sounds like they are doing some cool things. A year ago they had 180k paying customers. If we generously put them all on biz at $50/mo that’s $9M/mo or $108M/yr. Pro gives half that. They say now they have $500M run rate. So 5x+ growth in a year? Nice.

asdev

This is just a bet that the models will get better and that all the half baked never seen production Lovable apps will be able to be brought life because of that. I am fading that bet personally and am bearish on non technical people building software

cute_boi

It is crazy that people still use Lovable when we have codex and claude code....

alexashka

Cool. Signed up for Lovable, chose a web template, got this: "When remixing a template, I agree to take responsibility over project security, compliance, data, and operations. The templates are provided for educational purposes and do not guarantee functionality or security out of the box." With copy/paste disabled, so I had to type it out. I rest my case, your honor. --- Update: Spent 2 more minutes - I cannot believe anyone invested a penny in this. It makes those other dozen failed web site editor things look very well made and thought out. It makes Squarespace look like a good product!

jbdamask

Enterprises need a solution like Lovable or Replit if only for the one-touch deployments. Unfortunately, neither tool is there. I don't know what's taking Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, even AWS to build deployments themselves. There are only a handful of reference architectures for vibe-coded apps.

nadermx

The brand is now the moat.