Lovable
Fastest software company to $100M ARR in history — the AI app builder that dethroned ChatGPT's growth record
lovable.devAnnual Revenue
$200M+ (as of November 2025)
MRR
~$18M+
Team
517 employees
Funding
Venture-Backed
Founder
Anton Osika & Fabian Hedin
Co-Founders (CEO & CTO)
Created GPT Engineer as a weekend hack that became the fastest-growing GitHub repo ever (50K+ stars), then turned it into Lovable which hit $100M ARR in 8 months — faster than OpenAI, Cursor, and every previous software company
What Lovable Does
Lovable is an AI-powered full-stack application builder that enables anyone to create complete web applications through natural language prompts. Users describe what they want to build in plain English, and Lovable generates the entire application — frontend UI (React + Tailwind CSS), backend logic, database (Supabase integration), authentication, and deployment — all from a single conversation. Previously known as GPT Engineer, the platform was rebranded to Lovable in December 2024 and launched at the Slush conference. The core insight driving Lovable is that '99% of the world's best ideas are trapped in the heads of people who can't code.' Unlike developer-focused tools like Cursor, Lovable targets the 99% of people who have ideas but no coding skills, representing a fundamentally larger market.
Revenue Highlights
- $0 to $1M ARR in 8 days — fastest ever recorded for a SaaS company
- $10M ARR in 60 days with only 15 employees
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