One year ago today, we launched Lovable with a simple belief: everyone should be able to build software. Not just the 1% who can code.
The numbers tell one story:
- $200M ARR. In July, we announced $100M ARR. Today, 4 months later, that figure has doubled.
- 5 million. That’s how many visits we’re seeing to Lovable-built websites and apps every day — a 2x increase in two months.
- 100,000. New projects are built on Lovable every single day from people around the world.
But these numbers only hint at what's really happening. A new, global community is changing the way the world creates. They’re transforming software from something you use into something you shape.
Meet the new builders
I want to introduce you to the movement. The new builders span every age group, socioeconomic bracket, and geography. Some sit in dorm rooms, others sit in board rooms. Let me show you.
There are founders and solopreneurs solving real problems:
- Sabrine built Plinq to fight gender-based violence in Brazil, growing the app to 10,000+ users in 3 months.
- Henrik and Peter created AI fashion platform Lumoo — and saw €700,000 ARR in 9 months.
- Jaleel and Hussein’s restaurant management platform QuickTables, built entirely on Lovable, is on track to make over €100,000 a year.
And there are Lovable builders emerging at some of the biggest and most highly regulated companies in the world. Teams at Klarna and Delivery Hero are reimagining product development and building working prototypes in minutes.
Last week, I got a chance to speak with Microsoft President Brad Smith, who called what we’re doing to change the prototyping of software “breathtaking.” Turns out, when you can empower everyone in your company to ship, they ship. “Demo, don’t memo” is the new rallying cry of the workplace.
Sungae Park is VP of Product Design at HCA Healthcare. She’s been working in design for 30 years and says she’s never seen a platform transform work like Lovable. “With it, we can test bold new concepts with a single prompt — work that once required tremendous resources, time, and development effort,” she said. “Now, we spend less time designing static mockups and more time with clinicians creating human-centered solutions that elevate patient care.”
Around the world, Lovable fans are hosting anywhere from 10 to 30 meetups and hackathons every week. Kids are building. Women are building. Our online community of 100,000+ members are building. They’ve been running over 1,000 consecutive hours of live conversation in Discord because they love to build together that much.
Builders, meet your newest tools
Lovable Cloud and AI was released in September. It automatically takes care of login, databases, file uploads, and all the behind-the-scenes work in your app. It also lets you add AI functionality to your apps seamlessly, without requiring API keys or any manual setup.
Shopify integration launched last month. It lets you build e-commerce stores seamlessly inside Lovable with all logic done in Shopify.
And we have some new product releases for you today:
MCP servers are live. Lovable now speaks to Linear, Jira, Confluence, n8n, and Notion. In a click, your Linear ticket becomes a working prototype. Your Notion PRD scaffolds an entire app. Lovable reads your Confluence pages and all their linked documentation—PRDs, technical specs, architecture docs—and builds prototypes that match your standards.
Design themes (rolling out this week) let you set a color theme, typography and app spacing. Proactively configure for your brand, your aesthetic, consistently across every screen.
We’re here to keep lowering the barrier of building production-grade software and can’t wait to see what you build next.
We're opening new offices in Boston and San Francisco
Stockholm will always be home, and our Swedish roots are felt globally: an emphasis on design, focus on accessibility, and the belief that tools should be beautiful remain core to who we are.
But, our mission has always been global, and with many of our customers in the US, we're opening offices in Boston and San Francisco to be closer to some of the builders reshaping how software gets made.
What's in store for Year Two
We started out to democratize software creation for the 99%. If year one was about proving it works, year two is about proving it scales.
We want companies to build exactly the tools they need for their specific challenges. We want founders to go from idea to launched product in days, not months. We want to show that democratizing software creation doesn't mean compromising on quality, security, or sophistication.
Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? It’s possible.
To everyone who's built something on Lovable this year: thank you. You're the reason we exist, the reason we keep pushing, and the reason I get to write blog posts like these.
You've proven something profound: when people have the tools to build, they don't just create software. They solve problems, launch businesses, help their communities, and bring ideas to life that would have otherwise stayed locked in their minds.
Lovable is building the creative infrastructure for how software gets made. And after one year and $200M in ARR, we're confident about one thing: this transformation is just beginning.
Welcome to the age of the builder.
PS: We’re hiring in Stockholm, Boston, and San Francisco. Join us for Year Two: https://lovable.dev/careers
