Full-Time Student Reached $130K ARR in 30 Days With AI App
Elena Verna · Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna · Jun 5, 2026 · at 14:54
Elena Verna, growth executive at Lovable, shares an example of a non-technical founder building a successful SaaS product on Lovable.
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“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.”
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