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I think software engineers might be in a echo chamber around Lovable and apps like this. It would have been a surprise to me too, as I also build software for a
by sonink 2mo ago
I think software engineers might be in a echo chamber around Lovable and apps like this. It would have been a surprise to me too, as I also build software for a living, but it just so happens that I also run a company - in the same space as lovable - so I can give you some real examples:
1. Dance school management SaaS
2. Classified sites for Netherlands
3. An old school website hosting service
All of these were built by entrepreneurs who do not have a tech background. And by no tech background, I mean most of them dont know github, some of them dont know reddit and some of them dont know linkedin. The way they 'backup' their work is by taking successive dumps of the entire folder on local.
They already know that the business of software is one of the better businesses out there. Till now the option they had was to outsource to a dev shop - which will set them back to $10k-$50k atleast - but they intutively understand that the business may or may not work. So they were on the fence.
Now they build themselves - each of the three above have spent around $2k-$5k on our platform over the last quarter. Some of the businesses are working, some not so much - some are trodding along. So these guys do some updates here and there - are figuring out marketing over time - but if it seems like its not taking off, they start building the next thing on their mind. And once they 'understand' a platform they stick to it. Couple of grands dropped to build their next idea is the cheapest they have ever paid.
- Oras 2mo agoI totally see what you mean, but that didn't require Lovable, replit or $10-$50k before, a simple Wix or Framer would do the same, no?
- toyg 2mo agoLovable is effectively "next gen Wix", which itself was "next gen Wordpress", which was "next gen Dreamweaver". It's simply the natural evolution of products that solve the problem "build a website without being a coder". Every generation is hailed as the end of all things, because it's always better than the previous one, but the core need they serve are the same.
- sonink 2mo agoNot at all - how do you build a classified site on Wix/Framer ? Afaik they are for only static/marketing sites - plus a cms to host a blog. These are all apps with multi-tenancy - database backed - payment integrations - the works. The classified site (marketcity.org) has features like user chats/dms, social media sharing, paid upgrades etc. Actually now the capabilities are dramatically increasing - you can now vibecode like a python based image/video processing pipeline directly - all through a webapp. And very soon - something more ambitious, like finetune an LLM - again all through a simple chat webapp.
- owebmaster 2mo ago> Afaik they are for only static/marketing sites That's on you. Wix, framer and WordPress can do it easily
- sailfast 2mo agoNo doubt - and that sounds like an awesome and sustainable business that would benefit from a couple million bucks. Would you want $400M?