Lovable

23 statements across 10 episodes · 13 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2025 by Jason Lemkin · said 155 times in 27 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (118), Amelia Ibarra (13), Elena Verna (9), Amelia LeRutte (2), Ashley Wilson (1)

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2025 44 mentions in 7 episodes 6 per episode

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Everything said about Lovable, oldest first

Sep 12, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Vibe coding platforms do not support native mobile app store deployment
“Right now, none of these platforms really support native mobile. Okay. It's complicated. Do they help you prototype a native mobile app? Yes. Can you hook up things like Expo and others and get close? Yes. But if you talk to the folks that work at these platfo…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 36:09 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Insight
Lemkin: One-shot vibe-coded apps produce placeholder buttons and broken features
“Build an app in 10 or 15 minutes. It will come up with ideas for you. It will have you sign off on an action plan and then it will roll out. And at first it will look kind of cool. And then you'll start clicking on things and half of it won't work. And half of…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 18:35 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Vibe coding apps like Salesforce in 10 minutes is dangerous bologna
“There's a lot of stuff on social media about, Hey, you can just vibe code your own HubSpot or Salesforce. You can vibe code your own notion. It will take. 10 minutes. That's Sony baloney. And it is almost dangerous Sony baloney because it's not just startups t…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 2:55 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 12, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: AI-vibe-coded sites all look like Claude and share a recognizable smell
“At the end of the day, all these sites look like Claude. Once you see one Replit or Lovable site and you can just smell it. You know, there, someone was saying that like, 30% of this YC class vibe coded their app. And I want to see a couple. I'm like, I, that …”
Jason Lemkin Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 37:38 The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Sep 17, 2025 bullish
Insight
Foster: Vibe coding tools expand the market for software stack products
“Nowadays, that person can go use a Lovable or a Replit or whatever and get started. And so it's increasing the market for all of the tools in the stack because the entry point is just so much simpler.”
Wade Foster Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 22:14 Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster
Sep 23, 2025 bearish
Insight
Lemkin: B2B companies should buy off-the-shelf software rather than build custom AI
“The main learning is only do this if you can't buy it from 99% of you. Like it's cool, but we did this for content review and other things, and we'll show you where there is no off the shelf app, but don't roll your own. Buy, buy, don't build, right? Use for B…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 8:43 SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why
Oct 22, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lovable Is Scaling Toward $100M ARR With Only 45 Employees
“Lovable getting to a hundred million with 45 employees.”
Jason Lemkin Oct 22, 2025 ▶ 23:09 The State of AI + Software: Where It’s Going - Fast
Dec 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Lemkin: ElevenLabs will reach $300 million in revenue this year
“The tools are either so disruptive, like a cursor or replica or lovable or 11 labs will go from like almost nothing to three hundred million this year.”
Jason Lemkin Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 7:05 AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
Jan 2, 2026 bearish
Insight
Lemkin: VCs Abandon Older Startups to Chase Early-Stage AI Hits
“If you've been doing this for a while, your VCs are just going to check out on you. They're just, it's just not again, like putting all your money into anthropic. It's just natural. If your company is around six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years, and you're lookin…”
Jason Lemkin Jan 2, 2026 ▶ 21:20 AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Insight
Lemkin: AI Agents Perform Better Security Audits Than Outsourced Dev Shops
“What you should do with the agents now is they're pretty good. You can do this in Claude code. You can do it in Replit. You can do it in Lovable is ask them to do the deepest security audit possible on your app at least once every month or two. And they're pre…”
Jason Lemkin Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 56:50 The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Vibe Code, and What To Just Buy
May 6, 2026 positive
Opinion
Lemkin: Contained Platforms Like Replit and Lovable Are Much Safer for Agents
“The, it's actually a much safer environment to use one of these platforms that is contained.”
Jason Lemkin May 6, 2026 ▶ 51:38 Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
May 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Replit and Lovable share similar size and growth rates
“So it's funny, as a case study, Lovable and Replit, like, they're arch and arch competitors. They're about the same size, same growth, same everything, same, but they started totally differently.”
Jason Lemkin May 6, 2026 ▶ 28:48 Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
Jun 5, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lovable Sees Double-Digit Paid Conversions From LinkedIn Premium Partnership
“We just announced a partnership with LinkedIn a couple of days ago, where every LinkedIn premium member now has free access to Lovable, and those conversion rates to paid are double digits.”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 34:56 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Lovable Has Zero Titles and Requires All Leaders to Do IC Work
“That's why we're completely flat. We don't have titles internally for a reason. Everybody is expected to do some sort of IC work. We don't have just leaders that are just sitting on top navigating things. Everybody's just expected to build”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 19:15 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Full-Time Student Reached $130K ARR in 30 Days With AI App
“For example, one of our successful founders is a full-time student and she built an AI study buddy and she got a 130,000 dollars in AR in the first 30 days of launching it because she distributed across her school and it picked up like a wildfire.”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 14:54 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 neutral
Insight
AI Companies Nearing $500M Revenue Must Recapture Product-Market Fit Monthly
“Even Approaching half a billion dollars in revenue, we're still on the product market fit treadmill, because category is evolving so fast, both from technological perspective, from customer perception, that we still need to keep pushing the product at the maxi…”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 21:28 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lovable Launches Native SEO and SEMrush Integration for All Apps
“And today is our big launch day for allowing every single app to be native for SEO and AI discoverability. So for those of you who are more technical from server side rendering, SSR to pre-rendering, you can be discoverable. And we also integrated with SEMrush…”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 0:08 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 positive
Insight
AI Builders Create Internal Tools in Hours Instead of Buying Software
“So often you'd go and try to do RFP and buying software and I was like, oh, let me just go build it in an hour because let me see how far I can get there. So we constantly pressure testing our own boundaries of how much of our lovable we can build on lovable o…”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 26:35 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Lovable Crossed $400M ARR With Fewer Than 200 Employees
“We shared our figures at numbers in February that we've crossed over four hundred million dollars in ARR. And we're just shy of 200 people still, so we are operating as a very tiny team for a reason.”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 19:36 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Lovable Ships Any Idea Supported by at Least Two People
“If you can convince one other person that it's a good idea, let's go do it. But that's because everybody holds such a high amount of agency and autonomy that even getting agreements sometimes from one another person is not as easy.”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 24:11 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
High-Power ICs Replacing Executive VPs as Ultimate Career Status Symbol
“And I do think that is going to be the next flex Of our careers, not to go up the leadership ladders going to those fancy VP titles and actually becoming this high power IC that is capable to accomplish of what it used to take dozens of people to do.”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 5:02 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 5, 2026 neutral
Insight
App Building Is Commoditized; Differentiation Has Shifted to Value Creation
“We really believe that building something is already becoming a commodity. Everybody and their mother are going into competition of creating an app builders. How do you create value out of what you've built? Whether it's your personal value for your company or…”
Elena Verna Jun 5, 2026 ▶ 16:37 Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Identical agent specs on Replit and Lovable yield different recommendations
“They're pulling from the same APIs and the same sources of data, but they're making different recommendations.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 10:11 Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
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