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Lovable CEO discusses rapid startup growth
ALSO: Anthropic restricts AI surveillance use
Geoffrey NICHIL
September 17, 2025
News of the day
1. Lovable CEO Anton Osika discusses building a record-breaking startup, reaching $100M ARR in under a year, and empowering non-coders with AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. → Read more
2. Anthropic prohibits domestic surveillance use of its Claude AI models, causing political friction with the Trump administration and highlighting ethical AI deployment challenges. → Read more
3. A CrowdStrike study found Chinese AI Deepseek generates less secure code for politically sensitive prompts, raising concerns about bias in technical AI outputs. → Read more
4. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a big fan of Google Gemini's Nano Banana AI image generator, praising its editing features and advocating for widespread AI accessibility. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
There are startups that ride a trend, and those that create a category. Lovable clearly belongs to the second: recall that this platform lets you build apps (front and back end) in natural language. Eight months after its launch, the company claims to have crossed $100 million in ARR. It has closed a $200 million funding round at a valuation of around $1.8 billion. At this stage, more than 10 million projects are said to have already been built on the platform.
The value proposition is simple and formidable: create an app or website by talking to an AI, extending the power to build beyond the circle of coders. The timing is excellent, the storytelling sharp, and you can feel the product touch of a team obsessed with onboarding and speed. But this game won’t be won with bigger models or flashy benchmarks. It will be decided by the end-to-end experience: from conversation to deployment, with testing, security, incident recovery, and controlled inference costs.
Good news for developers: you won’t be replaced, only promoted to managers of an army of agents. Competition is already here, from Copilot to Cursor to Replit, and Lovable’s truly defensible moat will be its ability to turn mainstream spark into professional daily use—with maintainable projects and rock-solid retention.
G.
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