Itai Elgazar
Founder, Superdev. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Itay Elgazar is a software engineer and entrepreneur who founded Superdev, an AI platform for building full-stack applications that he bootstrapped and sold via Acquire.com. He also developed the open-source AI toolkit Pezzo and previously worked as a software engineer at Backbase.
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Everything Itai Elgazar said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Elgazar: Lovable struggled with backends and data persistence in early 2025
“So I think like Lavable is really good at scaffolding UIs, but when I started building super dev, which was like back in February Clavable wasn't that good in building like a back end and integrating like third party services and data persistence.”
Elgazar: Showing raw SQL causes non-technical AI app users to churn
“Like if a non-technical people would see that SQL, They will probably abandon the project. They will get panicked.”
Elgazar: Bootstrapping AI apps to $1M ARR is hindered by LLM costs
“Unless you have capital it's gonna be hard to take it to the next level. Like I wanted to take it to like one to five million error. It's definitely doable, but you need money in order to, you know, in order to pay for ads and influencers and the cost of the L…”
Elgazar: SuperDev differentiated by using an LLM SDK for data persistence
“What I did is to build, I fed up the LLM with, I wired the LLM with an SDK that contains all the necessities to build a full stack up. So that's like, that's the differentiator that's super that has you get the surprise essentially. From the first prompt, ever…”
Elgazar: SuperDev acquired its first 35 customers from three Reddit posts
“I posted three posts. On three different subreddits, and all of the three got viral like, 150 to 301 of them got 500 upvotes, and from, only from Reddit, I got, like, 30 to 35 customers”
Elgazar: Cold outreach to influencers yielded an 80 percent response rate
“I think I've sent like maybe 15 to TikTokers on TikTok, and like, 10 requests, 15 requests on YouTube, and the response rate was like 80%, which is pretty awesome.”
Elgazar: SuperDev had roughly 200 paying users when it was acquired
“So, paying users around 202 150 and then non-paying users, we had around, like, 4000, three, two and a half thousand paying users.”
Elgazar: SuperDev was built, launched, and acquired within a six-month window
“I started working with it on February twenty-twenty-five. I released it I released a beta version on, I think it was the first of May, but around three weeks. So towards the end of May, I released it to the general availability. So yeah, and I sold it like las…”
Elgazar: I sold SuperDev because well-funded competitors like Lovable were intimidating
“I felt like I was a bit late to the party of lovable and other competitors that were pretty well known. So that's why I decided to sell. And then I realized that, you know, if I'm, if I will sell and probably I will have a nice amount of money to reinvest in m…”
Elgazar: SuperDev received five LOIs within a week of listing
“So I think I listed it beginning of August something like that, maybe a bit less than the beginning of August. And then like a week later, I've got like, Five LOIs.”
Elgazar: SuperDev's acquisition closed in roughly a week and a half
“I know the answer, but like a week and a half or something, something very, very fast. Like it was really fast.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Itai's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 ACQUISITION STORIESLEDGER | Founder, Superdev | 1 | 12 | — | full record on Startup Acquisition Stories → |