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Lovable's month one retention rate for paying customers is approximately 85%.
Lovable is currently growing its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by $2 million per week.
Lovable currently has almost 40,000 paying users.
Anton Osaika believes that SaaS companies with per-seat pricing models are a good short opportunity because AI will replace the employees who occupy those seats.
Anton Osaika believes foundation models are becoming commoditized and there will not be a single winner, making it unnecessary for companies to be tied to one provider.
Lovable raised a pre-seed round totaling almost $8 million before launching its first waitlisted product.
A future product vision for Lovable is to integrate the entire Y Combinator playbook and infrastructure, including company incorporation and payment setup, directly into the platform.
Lovable's month one retention rate for paying customers is better than that of ChatGPT.
Lovable's platform utilizes models from OpenAI and Google Gemini, but its main workhorse for code generation is Anthropic's Claude model.
Anton Osaika would short OpenAI because he believes the company has not demonstrated a clear product direction or focus over the past year.
Anton Osaika believes there is more raw, available talent in Europe compared to the US.
Lovable rejected an offer from Y Combinator because the founders felt it would be a distraction and cause too much dilution.