Lovable: The New AI Coding Tool Stealing the Spotlight

It's time to be lovable, and nope, this is not a dating app article; it's a V coding article. V coding has a new name, and it's called Lovable.

While Cursor and Copilot are still riding high, there's a quiet revolution happening on tech Twitter, and Lovable is stealing that very spotlight. So, let's tell you why developers are dropping cursor and windsurf for this new AI darling.

What Exactly Is Lovable?

Lovable started as an open-source tool for GPT engineer and now it's a full-blown AI software engineer. It's backed by Meta board member Charlie Song and HuggingFace co-founder Thomas Wolf. Lovable isn't just here to suggest helper functions; it's here to build your entire app—landing page, backend, docs, and API hooks—all in one go.

Founder Anon Osika said it best:

"I always felt building products takes too long, so I started lovable to fix this."

Why Are Developers Switching?

Let's tell you. Cursor is great, until it's not. Developers like Amar Sultan tested both with the same prompt. Cursor got stuck; he had to break it down step by step, whereas with Lovable, one big prompt and it's working.

Dan Denny, the senior engineer at Data Camp, built a live web app in under 3 hours. No code, just vibes. And Chef Brian logged over 200 hours building 60+ projects on Lovable. What started as a curiosity became a full-blown obsession.

Lovable is quite literally built to ship, not just assist.

A Co-founder, Not a Co-pilot

That is why Lovable isn't a co-pilot; it's a co-founder. Rajal Tomer from Ignite Lab said:

"Lovable can handle 80% of your MVP. Cursor is great for the remaining 20%."

The UI is genuinely better than say Volt, Vo, or anything in its league. The integrations with Superbase make full-stack app development ridiculously smooth on Lovable. The agentic system is quite literally game on. The architecture of its agentic system thinks through the entire app before building it.

Ade Kolvi of Cognivite Labs said that it's not just building features, it's building context. On Lovable, you prompt, it builds, it hooks the back end, and it ships, all while you sip chai.

Incredible Growth

And that's why it's been able to go from $0 to $17 million ARR in just 3 months. Cursor became the fastest SAS to hit $100 million ARR, but Lovable is racing right behind, hitting $17 million in just 3 months. Its GitHub repo hit 56k stars, and a "30 apps in 30 days" developer challenge went viral with half a million views on X. This is just not a tool; it's almost a movement now.

Not All Roses for Lovable Yet

But still, let's be real: Lovable is not perfect, at least not yet. - Complex backends are still tricky. - Refactoring is kind of meh. - Two to three credits per feature can be a little pricey for hobbyists. - When you need fine-grained control, cursor still wins. - If you're knee-deep in a large code base, Lovable might feel well, too abstract.

The Bottom Line

The bottom line is that if your goal is to go from idea to MVP to a live app in a single day, then Lovable is your weapon of choice. For indie hackers, early-stage founders, and tech tinkerers, it's the closest thing to magic we've seen in a while.

Cursor made AI coding cool, but Lovable is making it lovable. The vibe shift is real.