Osika: GitHub suspended Lovable after it generated 15,000 daily repositories
Anton Osika · Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder) · Mar 9, 2025 · at 23:34
Lovable CEO Anton Osika explains how Lovable's initial architecture created GitHub repositories and caused infrastructure limits.
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“Lovable Earlier was always creating new projects on GitHub when someone used Lavable, and it was, we asked them, is it fine? Like, how, what's the limits here? They said, are there no limits? But once we started creating 15,000 projects per day, so there were a lot of usage. Then some engineer, when it was on call, maybe they woke up in the night and they saw their servers are, were taking too much load. Because of us. So then they shut the Afton completely, and we got this email that said, oh, you broke some kind of rules, and we didn't know what was going on.”
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