I'm leaving Lovable at 18 years old

June 19, 2026

I'm leaving Lovable at 18 years old

When I first joined Lovable in March, I was 17. At that time, the company had around 20 employees and was doing about $25M ARR.

During my time there I helped ship, among other things:

  • The referral program
  • Shopify integration
  • Domain purchase flow, management, and transfer-outs
  • Global caching system that makes every single deployed website load super fast
  • Lovable profiles, eg lovable.dev/@robiot
  • Student discount program
  • Yap to app (voice to text mode)
  • The new dashboard layout
  • The publish dialog

And not to forget the little satisfying pling sound that plays when a generation finishes, which was the very first thing I ever shipped haha.

Beyond writing code, I also appeared in Lovable's most viral reel with 3M views and helped write some of Lovable's early viral Twitter posts.

By the time I left, Lovable had grown to over $500M ARR.

I've loved spending the past year building alongside some of the most talented people in Europe. I'll miss all of you.

It's time for a new adventure to maximize my learning and make a hell of an impact on the world. I've still got a couple of years left until I turn 100.

LFG

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I'm leaving Lovable at 18 years old - Elliot Lindberg | Elliot Lindberg