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An investigation conducted with Handelsblatt examined applications built on the AI app-building platform Lovable and found sensitive data, including passport details and over 200,000 private messages, left accessible without proper protection. Lovable's terms place responsibility for securing applications and data on the customers who build them, rather than on the platform itself.
Squarespace is laying off roughly 300 employees, about 19% of its global workforce, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Spokesperson Jeff Seedman said the restructuring aims to simplify operations, sharpen priorities and position the company for its next growth phase. The cuts come as Squarespace pushes into AI tools like Blueprint and its upcoming Forma platform.
An Entrepreneur contributor published a video showing seven ways solo business owners can delegate tasks to AI tools, including using Lovable to build apps, running customer-recovery campaigns, and coordinating multiple AI agents without hiring staff or writing code. The piece cites Intuit QuickBooks' 2026 AI Impact Report, which found 78% of U.S. businesses said AI improved productivity and 43% said it increased revenue.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Lovable's Luke Arno, Polsia's Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures' Tomasz Tunguz discussed how startups can hit strong early revenue numbers without having real product-market fit. Arno argued that founders should avoid building a sales team until they can repeat the same winning approach across multiple customers, rather than closing each deal through a different, one-off tactic.
An Entrepreneur contributor's video essay examines how Lovable grew into a business with a reported $400 million in annual recurring revenue by February 2026 by solving the problem of people who had app ideas but couldn't code. The piece also cites an Adobe Express survey of 1,010 gig workers showing 46% said they earn income from AI side hustles, and recalls Dropbox's early struggles paying $233-$388 to acquire customers for a $99 product before a referral program lifted signups 60%.
A contributor opinion piece for Entrepreneur argues that founders outside AI are misreading their own growth as failure because they're comparing it to charts from companies like Lovable and Cursor, which hit $600 million and $4 billion annualized revenue run rates respectively in 2026. The piece attributes AI's unusual speed to frictionless sales cycles, minimal regulation and instant credit-card adoption, conditions most industries lack. It advises founders to study peers in their own category, track controllable short-term metrics, and identify specific milestones that could unlock faster growth.
Vibe-coding startup Lovable said its annualized revenue has reached $600 million, co-founder Fabian Hedin announced at the HumanX summit in Amsterdam. Hedin said two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies now use the platform, including Microsoft, NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom, and that apps built on Lovable draw nearly a billion visits monthly. The company has raised over $700 million across two rounds since December, most recently at a $13.3 billion valuation.
A software engineer describes a two-day hackathon where a team of engineers and recruiters used the no-code AI platform Lovable to build 'HoneyCrew,' a referral-tracking tool with Slack integration and scraping features. After rapid progress on day one, the project collapsed into bugs and instability on day two, leaving the team scrambling before the final demo.
Stockholm's Lovable recently raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, nearly doubling its worth in just eight months, while fellow Swedish startups Legora and Neko Health are also posting strong growth. TechCrunch's Equity podcast spoke with Cherry Ventures partner Sophia Bendz about the factors fueling this Nordic startup momentum.