Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey—and what they learned from that experience.In this episode, we spoke with Fabian Hedin, Co-founder and CTO of Lovable. Lovable is a platform that lets you build apps and websites by chatting with AI. After launching in November 2024, they've scaled from $1M to $100M ARR in just eight months—one of the fastest growth trajectories in AI history.Fabian shares his journey from running Minecraft servers in high school to cofounding Lovable, the bold bet on democratizing software development, and why building for today's AI capabilities beats betting on tomorrow's.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:38 Early Journey
05:57 Becoming Lovable
08:40 Launch Lessons
09:39 Scaling Fast
12:38 Building with AI
17:11 What's Production-Ready
19:39 Notion x Lovable
20:34 Future of Building
21:20 Advice Block