head of design, founding designer @lovable

London
@Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation. My journey with Lovable started two years ago. But my journey with the problem started as a kid who just wanted to make things for the internet. For most of my career, I thought the goal was to earn a seat at the table. Now I think the industry has been asking for the wrong thing. I grew up terminally online and the internet felt like infinite possibility. I spent my time in forums and online communities, hacking things together and figuring out just enough to make an idea work. But I’d always hit the same wall: to make the thing I actually had in my head, I needed to properly learn how to code. I tried. I got frustrated. I failed. Over and over again. Eventually I fell into design. Unlike programming, it clicked. I loved caring about how people used things and the problems being solved, rather than how things were made. It became my career. And like a good team player, I learned to embrace my limitations. I learned handoffs. I learned to play to other people’s strengths. I learned to stay in my lane. But the original impulse never went away. Talking to Lovable users, I see the same impulse: people who accepted their limits, right up until they started creating with Lovable. I believe we have an uncanny ability to tell when something was made with care. We hear it in music. Taste it in a home-cooked meal. Feel it when friends and family show up for us. What I didn’t expect was how clearly I’d see the same thing in software, when the people closest to a problem can build it themselves with a depth of care that’s impossible to hand off. @thisabri at Plinq is using Lovable to fight gender-based violence in Brazil, reaching >$500k MRR and raising funding. @Ivanovic_nenad at Nursa is building tools to educate nurses, saving >$1M a year. There are two conversations in tech I’m looking forward to retiring: Should you learn to code? And how do you get a “seat at the table”? I think they were always the same question: how do I get agency? For most of my career, getting a seat at the table felt like an ambition. Now, you don’t need to ask for a seat. You can just build the table.
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We did it. And it's free. Chat with Lovable now.
Cmon @Lovable, we really need a "Chat" mode. I do not need a Plan all the time and i do not want the agent to change code by itself in "Build" mode. Sometimes i just want to analyse and chat with the agent to think things over.
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Found the receipts.
Nad emailed Fabian and me, offering to help with design. This was before Lovable existed, when it was mostly an open-source project. Two weeks later, he’d redesigned the product, the site, and the brand. He’s been shaping how Lovable looks and feels and, to me even more importantly - how we work internally. His thoughtfulness on organization and ways of working has inspired a lot of how Lovable is being built. Grateful he sent that email.
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At @Lovable we think a lot about clock speed: our internal pace of thinking, deciding, executing. Some people's clocks tick faster than others. @antonosika and @FabianHedin run fast, and they want everyone around them running fast too. Working here made me realise I'd been suppressing my own clock speed for years. Ironic - early in my career I'd called balancing craft and speed one of my designer superpowers. I was always a little jealous of the pure craft designers. I joined as the first designer and fourth employee. Day one, complete ownership: designing and redesigning the product, making foundational calls, building our now-signature brand - starting as a team of one. But speed only works with obsessive care underneath it. That's what turns speed into learning, and learning into ambition. I grew up building websites for local musicians and Counter-Strike leagues. Fitting that Lovable is the product I wish I'd had as a kid, hacking around online. I wrote more on this for @firstround's review - the culture that's trusted me to build a brand with heart since day one: review.firstround.com/firsth…
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Shoutout @thenickpattison @carlospalomo24 for the care and love on the brand sprint. 🫶
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When I first met @antonosika and @FabianHedin, I thought they were crazy. Two and a half years later, I can confirm: I was right.
Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that helps build businesses. Apps built on Lovable now get 900M visits every month, and we’ve quadrupled ARR in the last 12 months. Since we started, Lovable has become the place where founders create million dollar businesses, business leaders spin up new product lines, and people inside companies rewire workflows and build tools that fit their exact needs, typically at a fraction of what software used to cost. There’s a lot more to do. We will create the most intuitive platform to build and run a business. That means: - Understanding what success looks like for you, then helping you achieve it. Not only ensuring your software works but also that you can attract customers, improve workflows, and grow your company. - Deeper integrations that work with your existing tech stack so you can build the interface to your entire business across sales, ops, marketing, finance, etc. - Becoming the safest platform to build and run your business on, which means secured code by default and that you get help to make safe decisions. As you build, the platform carries more of the security weight, spotting risks and helping you close them, so you can move fast without needing to become a security expert. - Staying model-independent and orchestrating the best models for every task so you don’t have to. We’ll continue to absorb the complexity of evaluating and teaching models to route to the best ones in the background, to minimize cognitive load for our users. As more people depend on Lovable, the quality standards our team is driving increase every single day. We’re growing the team with people with a founder mindset: curious, ambitious, and who think end to end. Model training, product geniuses, infrastructure tinkerers, and security are the priority. The world is full of ambitious people with deep knowledge of problems worth solving. Very few of them have historically had the power to act on them. Our ambition is to give people that power, and then help them achieve more than they thought possible. Thank you to everyone who has followed along our journey. Thank you to @MenloVentures for leading, the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by @eqt) for co-leading, and all of the new and returning investors who recognize our global ambitions and will help make them a reality. We have made a lot of progress but we are nowhere close to done, it’s still day zero. See our blog: lovable.dev/blog/series-c
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Lovable just raised $400M, btw
Lovable just raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation to build the business that helps build businesses. Apps built on Lovable now get 900M visits every month, and we’ve quadrupled ARR in the last 12 months. Since we started, Lovable has become the place where founders create million dollar businesses, business leaders spin up new product lines, and people inside companies rewire workflows and build tools that fit their exact needs, typically at a fraction of what software used to cost. There’s a lot more to do. We will create the most intuitive platform to build and run a business. That means: - Understanding what success looks like for you, then helping you achieve it. Not only ensuring your software works but also that you can attract customers, improve workflows, and grow your company. - Deeper integrations that work with your existing tech stack so you can build the interface to your entire business across sales, ops, marketing, finance, etc. - Becoming the safest platform to build and run your business on, which means secured code by default and that you get help to make safe decisions. As you build, the platform carries more of the security weight, spotting risks and helping you close them, so you can move fast without needing to become a security expert. - Staying model-independent and orchestrating the best models for every task so you don’t have to. We’ll continue to absorb the complexity of evaluating and teaching models to route to the best ones in the background, to minimize cognitive load for our users. As more people depend on Lovable, the quality standards our team is driving increase every single day. We’re growing the team with people with a founder mindset: curious, ambitious, and who think end to end. Model training, product geniuses, infrastructure tinkerers, and security are the priority. The world is full of ambitious people with deep knowledge of problems worth solving. Very few of them have historically had the power to act on them. Our ambition is to give people that power, and then help them achieve more than they thought possible. Thank you to everyone who has followed along our journey. Thank you to @MenloVentures for leading, the Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by @eqt) for co-leading, and all of the new and returning investors who recognize our global ambitions and will help make them a reality. We have made a lot of progress but we are nowhere close to done, it’s still day zero. See our blog: lovable.dev/blog/series-c
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hard to think about the design community without thinking of @ridd_design and @designertom what they give back (even quietly, when no one's watching) is unmatched - some of the kindest people, full stop honoured to be part of backyard designers, and in both of your drafts 🫡 now I just need to work on my follower count so my cap hit is less good value, smh
alright it's probably time I did one for myself... meet the dream team ⚾ • @nadonomy • @mirdhaaakanksha • @kevintwohy • @jamesm • @joebell_ • @apostraphi • @mds backyarddesigners.club
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Nad Chishtie retweeted
Just made my design baseball team featuring: - @kevintwohy - @zendadddy - @BrettFromDJ - @nadonomy - @krispuckett - @raunofreiberg Try it here: backyarddesigners.club/ (Made by @ridd_design)
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tab choreography • pill peeks toward whatever icon you hover • icons subtly scale on press • label drifts in with a touch of blur as the pill arrives • only dividers in the pills flight path hide • optically balanced when active vs inactive dialkit ftw
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SITUATION EXPLAINED: @nadonomy (founding designer at Lovable) breaks down their new update. "We figured out a way to give frontier models almost a creative instinct." "Most solutions and teams in this space tend to gravitate towards a visual sameness... and the product is basically a template picker." "We don't think that's creativity. Instead what we did is we tried to deconstruct, what are the specific choices that make creative decisions, and how do we generate from those as individual principles?" "We have a new design agent that just has insane visual taste." @danacbryce
Introducing the Lovable aesthetics update, a new level of design in vibe coding. Ask for typography, layout, and color preferences. Preview design concepts before building, and create bolder landing pages, apps, and blogs.
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Lovable has a new creative engine. The first pieces ship today. This is the single generation that cost me a night's sleep. Everything is made by it, including the images. Here's a breakdown of what it is, and what it isn't. 🧵
Introducing the Lovable aesthetics update, a new level of design in vibe coding. Ask for typography, layout, and color preferences. Preview design concepts before building, and create bolder landing pages, apps, and blogs.
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Creative agency doesn't mean AI on autopilot. The best generations still come from a clear point of view - from you. We're adding new interactions that let you preview multiple design directions before building and continuing.
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The first pieces ship today. There's more in it and to come - but we wanted to put these first parts out now. We're excited to see what gets made. Kudos to the team that made a huge lift on this, starting with an idea sparked by @nklsmhs on a walk.
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Nad Chishtie retweeted
Really excited to share that I'm joining @Lovable with @jamesm! We'll be reimagining lovable[dot]dev from the ground up: how branding lives on the web, how a site can be a real growth engine, how every pixel can carry a point of view
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I’m excited to share that I’m joining the team at @Lovable ✨ I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with this unbelievably talented team—and I can’t wait to show everyone what we’re working on!
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