Anton Osika

“The whole concept of building wireframes and building a mock-up — well, you can just go right to building the product in a day or two days.”

“We're working with some of our customers in pre-release to give them access to a co-founder that works for you even when you're sleeping, and comes back to you in the morning and says: here are some strategic directions you could go.”

“I'm actually a huge fan of very rapid experimentation... They have two actually quite isolated teams working on the same particle accelerator... You don't get stuck in a local minimum.”

“AI-powered product-building platform that recently shipped a 'subagents' feature”

“AI products should hide complexity without hiding power.”

“He and co-founder Fabian Hedin migrated the entire backend from Python to Go, built new scaling laws for AI self-debugging so the model could get itself unstuck.”

“Lovable went from $0 to $400M ARR in 14 months with 146 employees, 8M+ users, and 25M+ projects built.”

“Anton had already been cultivating an audience on socials built over years of posting raw numbers, failed experiments, hiring photos, half-formed ideas a-la Pieter Levels. When they launched people already trusted the person before they trusted the product.”

“GPT Engineer's 50K GitHub stars were a pre-built trust base: Thousands of developers already knew the name and the credibility likely transferred directly to the new product.”

“Lovable crossed $400M ARR in February 2026, adding $100M in a single month with 146 employees at $2.77M revenue per head.”

“Anton Osika told Bloomberg the company is 'pacing five months ahead of projections.'”