Elgazar: Lovable struggled with backends and data persistence in early 2025
Itai Elgazar · The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Life-changing Exit · Sep 16, 2025 · at 2:35
Itai Elgazar, founder of AI app builder SuperDev, describes the limitations he identified in competing AI builder Lovable prior to launching SuperDev.
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“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.”
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