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