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Anton Osika

Anton Osika started the open-source GPT Engineer project and co-founded Lovable with Fabian Hedin. Lovable turns prompts into working web apps. On Lenny’s Podcast, Osika explained how a team of 15 reached its first reported $10 million in annual recurring revenue.

Updated 5 November 2026

Published photograph [1] ↗

$10mLovable ARR in 60 days · founder interview [2] ↗

$200mLovable ARR · Nov 2025 [3] ↗

$400mSeries C funding · Aug 2026 [4] ↗

The numbers behind the story

Dated disclosures

From launch to the first $10 million ARR

Lovable’s account of the first four weeks and first two months after its November 2024 launch. [5] ↗

First four weeks

$4,000,000

First two months

$10,000,000

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Observation	Value
First four weeks	$4,000,000
First two months	$10,000,000

Dated disclosures

Lovable’s reported ARR

Two company disclosures in 2025. These are annual recurring revenue snapshots. [3] ↗ [6] ↗

Jul 23, 2025

$100,000,000

Nov 18, 2025

$200,000,000

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Observation	Value
Jul 23, 2025	$100,000,000
Nov 18, 2025	$200,000,000

Dated disclosures

The August 2026 Series C

The $400 million financing accompanied a reported $13.3 billion company valuation. [4] ↗

Series C capital

$400,000,000

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Observation	Value
Series C capital	$400,000,000

Dated disclosures

lovable.dev monthly visits

Semrush estimates for July–September 2026, worldwide, all devices. Figures describe the website. The public series used here covers three months. [7] ↗

Monthly visits · estimatedMove across the chart, tap, or use Tab to explore.

Observed months

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Observation	Value
2026-07	62,820,000 visits
2026-08	70,480,000 visits
2026-09	81,460,000 visits

More financial disclosures

Period / scope	Reported figure
August 2026 valuation	$13.3bn company valuation in the Series C announcement. [4] ↗

Evidence, in pictures

Anton Osika discusses Lovable’s first months on Lenny’s Podcast. [8] ↗

Lovable’s own first-anniversary announcement artwork. [3] ↗

The bets, detours & strange details

Open source

GPT Engineer preceded the hosted product

The public GPT Engineer repository demonstrates building a codebase from a specification. Lovable took the idea into a hosted web app workflow. [9] ↗

15 people

The early team kept the building loop short

In Lenny’s interview, Osika discusses how the team shipped, worked with users and moved fast enough to reach $10 million ARR in roughly two months. [2] ↗

10m projects

Users were shipping at scale

At the July 2025 milestone, Lovable reported more than 10 million projects built and roughly 100,000 new projects per day. Its more autonomous Agent became the default. [6] ↗

5m daily visits

Attention spread to the apps built on Lovable

At its first anniversary, the company reported five million daily visits across sites and apps made with Lovable. This describes the hosted ecosystem. [3] ↗

Failures, disputes & the other side

Feb–Apr 2026

Public project links exposed more than users expected

Lovable acknowledged that authenticated users with a public project link could potentially access its source code and chat history. The affected window ran from February 3 to April 20. Lovable says private projects and Lovable Cloud were outside the incident. [10] ↗

2 hours

A quick patch was followed by a visibility redesign

Lovable says it shipped the fix within two hours after public disclosure. It subsequently made historically public projects private with exceptions for official templates and opt-in remixing, and reworked vulnerability triage. [10] ↗

Project index 2

Revenue, exits & abandoned experiments.

Find a project

Project	What it does	Revenue & numbers	Role / status
Lovable	Hosted platform for building and publishing software from prompts.	$200m ARR Nov 2025; $400m Series C at $13.3bn valuation Aug 2026.	Co-founder with Fabian Hedin [4] ↗
GPT Engineer	Open-source tool for turning specifications into code.	Commercial revenue undisclosed for the repository.	Creator · public repository [9] ↗

Watch & listen

Conversations, product walkthroughs and the reasoning behind the numbers.

Lenny's Podcast

Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder)

The launch story, Fabian Hedin, early ARR and operating a small team.

Watch on YouTube ↗

20VC with Harry Stebbings

Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt

Osika and Harry Stebbings discuss models, security and competition in app building.

Watch on YouTube ↗

Lovable

How Two Minecraft Friends Make $100K/Year With AI

Lovable’s first-anniversary account of the products its users built.

Watch on YouTube ↗

Outside views & responses

Apr 20, 2026

A researcher made the exposure public

Lovable’s incident account says a researcher publicly reported the access issue. The company acknowledged shortcomings in both its initial response and its visibility design. [10] ↗

Sources & research notes

Open the source register

Anton Osika

The numbers behind the story

From launch to the first $10 million ARR

Lovable’s reported ARR

The August 2026 Series C

lovable.dev monthly visits

Evidence, in pictures

The bets, detours & strange details

GPT Engineer preceded the hosted product

The early team kept the building loop short

Users were shipping at scale

Attention spread to the apps built on Lovable

Failures, disputes & the other side

Public project links exposed more than users expected

A quick patch was followed by a visibility redesign

Project index 2

Watch & listen

Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder)

Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt

How Two Minecraft Friends Make $100K/Year With AI

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