Stone & Chalk

Stone & Chalk is the largest innovation community in Australia.

Our mission is to transform Australia into a sustainable technology driven economy. We are not-for-profit, purpose-driven and sustainable.

We support startups, scaleups, corporations and government, at every and any stage of their innovation journey.

We foster a community of founders, mentors, experts, corporates, partners, collaborators, and more to help entrepreneurs and businesses build, grow, and commercialise ideas, ensuring they have everything they need to adapt and thrive in an age of technological disruption.

We are the spark that powers emerging tech innovation.

To be part of the largest innovation community in Australia, visit https://www.stoneandchalk.com.au/.

Startup Success & Community Manager - Melbourne Hub

Stone & Chalk is Australasia's leading independent, not-for-profit innovation hub. They foster and accelerate the development of world-leading technology startups and provide a mature innovation ecosystem. Most prominent industry verticals are FinTech, MediTech and AgriTech.

I was approached in July 2019 to join the mentor-match program for their early and mid-stage startup cohort. This is a pro-bono position.

Startup Mentor

Kuboom10X - Resources for Tech Founders

Providing resources to help first-time tech founders start and build successful startups.

Hi, my name is Graham McCorkill.

Over the past four decades, I’ve been in business. From working in the family company to founding or co-founding 8 successful startups.

On this journey spanning multiple industries, I’ve experienced both huge success and sole destroying failure. I understand the challenges and uncertainty that come with starting from scratch, without any guarantee of success.

For the past 12 years, I have been working with first-time tech founders to help fast-track the path from idea to commercialisation. 

During this time, I've delved deep into design thinking, lean methodology, lean startup, and exponential growth strategy, among others. And had the opportunity to hang out with a bunch of successful founders, extracting their insights about what it takes.

I found that tech product success does not just rely on a great idea… Execution is key!

There are several fundamental steps at each stage of business growth that must be addressed to have any chance at commercial success.

Leveraging all this experience, I been able to personally guide over 30 first-time tech founders through the tricky early stages of the startup process.
 
Now, I've established Kuboom10X to create and publish articles, newsletters and resources focused on helping you build your tech idea from zero to traction and beyond, avoiding the mistakes made by most first-time founders. 

Find out more at the Kuboom website... (Link in the profile)

E: graham@kuboom.com.au
W: https://kuboom.com.au
M: 0417 955 913

Founder, Tech Startup Specialist 

RUNWAY BUY

RUNWAY BUY is a new state-of-the-art Mobile & Web Platform for Designer Fashion. We’re giving our users unrestricted access to international runway events, in-house shows, showrooms and designer brand boutiques streamed live. 

I am working with the Runway Buy Team to inject a combination of innovative thinking, market understanding and Strategy Execution. Specifically, my entrepreneurial and start-up expertise along with my understanding and experience in the successful implementation of mobile technology to solve real world problems is key to having this new platform up and running successfully. 

I have been been brought into the project by Marc Palmer (co-founder) to ensure the successful development of the initial commercial product and to manage the growth of the business to cash-flow positive and beyond. 

Our mission is to bring this unique online marketplace to ALL fashion designers worldwide. From large established brands to small emerging designers and everyone in between, RUNWAY BUY is creating a level playing field to more effectively market their collections.  

Our technology will allow customers to select items from the feed and buy new fashion collections direct from the runway or video release in real time. It’s the first TRUE See-Now-Buy-Now system. 

RUNWAY BUY is bringing Fashion Designers and customers closer together in a way not previously available… This now means:

- Established Designers, Emerging Designers,  ethical brands and more can monetise their collections immediately, direct from a runway, showroom or boutique event

- Emerging Designers have open access to new international markets

- Designers and Retail Buyers can easily connect anywhere in the world  

- Fashionistas worldwide, can shop the runway, showrooms, boutiques and new designer collections like never before with early access to new fashion, exclusive deals and special fashion notifications.

RUNWAY BUY is scheduled for initial release mid 2019. 

https://runwaybuy.com

Member Board of Advisors - Technology / Business Innovation & Development

Buzinga App Development

Buzinga was an award-winning app development and innovation consultancy, helping startups and SMEs commercialise ideas and implement mobile-first strategies.

I co-founded Buzinga in 2012. The Buzinga Team focused on designing intuitive ways to transform basic human interaction with the modern world using technology, including: smartphones, tablets, wearables, smart TVs, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and IOT. 

We produced some of Australia’s most popular apps including SteelDrive for BlueScope, That Sugar App for Madman Entertainment and Foodswitch for The George Institute of Global Health and Bupa. 

We launched more than 150 mobile apps... 4 have been #1 on the App Store.

Our company was recognised by BRW as a Top 100 Australian Fast Starter in 2015, by JobAdvisor as among the Top 10 Coolest Companies in 2014, 2015 & 2016. 

We also won Anthill’s Coolest Company Award for Mobile Business in 2015, and several other accolades for products and company culture. We employed 26 staff in Australia across UI/UX, user engagement, consulting, engineering and mobile-first strategy. 

By designing and building high impact, positive mobile experiences that make people’s lives better, Buzinga’s clients often gain key outcomes such as: increased revenue & efficiencies, better engagement with external & internal users, better data and competitive advantage.

My responsibilities included Business Development, Growth Strategy, Innovation and Operations. Key achievements included:
 
 - Average of 89% year-on-year revenue growth since 2012
 - Over 300 clients in 5 years
 - Over 150 Mobile/Web App Projects completed with 4 #1 Apps on the App Store
 - Over 10 industry awards for Fast Growth, Culture and User Experience Design

Mid 2017, I negotiated the sale of the Buzinga team to Butterfly. Butterfly were web-focused and wanted to add mobile know-how to their team. I stayed with Butterfly until mid-November 2017 to oversee much of the Buzinga transition.

Co-Founder & Director - Business Development, Innovation and Operations

Miiy Pty Ltd - miiySearch

The miiy Group was 51% owned by Sofcom Ltd and specialises in next generation digital marketing including; websites, QR Codes, coupon & ticketing systems, SEO, online shopping, mobile stores, mobile/local search optimisation and more. 

My role was to establish and manage the development process of the miiySearch product. 

Responsibilities/Achievements:
 - Developed new One-Stop Registration Service for Mobile Search.
 - Developed initial design & content for miiySearch website.
 - Developed all sales & marketing collateral both electronic & physical.
 - Developed staged client registration process.
 - Developed sales and re-seller sales processes & scripts.
 - Established re-seller and email marketing strategy.
 - Engaged & trained face to face & call centre B2B re-seller teams for product validation

All aspects of the One-Stop Registration Service were fully functional and generating revenue when I finished.

miiySearch Product Owner (Contract)

SISS Business Systems Ltd

SISS Business Systems is a non-listed public company, established in 1999. It developed the web based Uglii Systems. Uglii stands for 'Unique geographic listing for industry' and incorporates a new business, product & services search engine that features a spacial search & unique and powerful marketplace platform.

My role was to manage the implementation of the support resources for Global, National & Affiliate Partners and input into the functionality and User Interface of the primary Uglii System modules. 

Responsibilities/Achievements:
 - Support for Global & National Re-seller Partners.
 - In-house marketing expertise to Partner Network & SISS divisions.
 - Support content for Partner Website including How-Tos & FAQs.
 - Developed electronic & physical sales & marketing collateral for Partner/SISS use.
 - Reviewed all new systems for usability, experience & retention.
 - UAT for system features - Recommended interface and screen-flow improvements
 - Created all help & how-to pages for new and existing systems

Global Manager - Partner Support / Advisor - User Interface Design & Marketing

SISS developed the web based Uglii Systems. To market the Systems, SISS was establishing up to 10 independent or wholly owned organisations as Global Partners, each of which was tasked with establishing their own network of National Re-Seller Partners internationally for their economic zone. Bizmio was the first wholly owned Global Partner. My role was to establish this subsidiary from scratch for SISS. 

Responsibilities/Achievements:
 - Established offices, business systems, business plan, budget, staff requirements.
 - Designed & managed development of company website including all content.
 - Created electronic & physical marketing collateral - videos, revenue calculators, brochures, etc.
 - Established support & training systems for National Partner / Re-Seller network.

When seconded to Melbourne to take up a position with the parent company, Bizmio had an established network of over 25 National Re-Seller Partners covering Australia, NZ, Chile and territories in USA, Europe and Asia which had begun to generate revenue.

CEO - Bizmio Services Pty Ltd 

Kendco - Urban Furniture

While running Urban Chilli Stores, I established a factory in Central Java in conjunction with an Indonesian associate to manufacture furniture designed by me for Urban Chilli. This allowed Urban Chilli to offer a point of difference in design, better quality control, a price advantage and the ability to offer a custom design service for domestic and commercial clients. 

This factory reached a monthly capacity of 4 x 40' HC containers delivered after 3 years. In addition to supplying our own company (Urban Chilli Furniture), we were able to supply many container loads of furniture to other customers (Australian and international) on a wholesale basis.

Co-Founder / Furniture Designer (Concurrent)

Prime Renovation

In September 2008, after being asked to fill the position of CEO for Bizmio commencing in July 2009, I established Prime Renovation for 9 months until the start of the Bizmio Role. Prime focused on small domestic renovations of up to $100,000. 

Responsibilities/Achievements:
 - Initial marketing of business’s expertise. (5/6 projects came via word-of-mouth recommendations)
 - Design & specification of all renovation work
 - Detailed quote preparation
 - Engaged and briefed all sub-contractors
 - Project managed all renovations
 - Some between trades work

Prime successfully completed 4 small projects under $25K and 2 projects of around $100K in this period.

General Manager / Project Manager

Urban Chilli Furniture

Urban Chilli – Furniture & Homewares was very successful in Perth marketing a range of imported and locally sourced product. Primarily retail, it also serviced many interior design & commercial clients. 

Established by my wife & I in late 1999 (originally named Serendipity), the first store was 120 sq mtr. 3 further stores of between 500 to 800 sq mtr each were established. In September 2001 we sold the small store to enable expansion of the furniture component of the business. 

Responsibilities/Achievements:
 - Managed sales, sales training & corporate sales / Set and monitored KPIs.
 - Developed all advertising & marketing including TV, press, magazine, advertorial, online and signage.
 - Managed company operations, store management, business strategy and planning.
 - Established computerised stock control, POS & accounting systems.
 - Developed store designs, décor & layout. Project managed all store fit-outs.
 - Designed the Urban Chilli range of solid wood furniture & managed quality control.
 - Managed all international & domestic furniture buying, furniture importing and stock control.
 - Consulted with clients for Interior Design / Styling & custom furniture design – Domestic & Commercial.
 - Managed and controlled the capital and operational budget and expenditure with P&L responsibility.

Achieved YoY growth of over 105% for first 4 years & above budget growth to 2007. Sold the business in early 2008 and remained as consultant to October that year.

Managing Director / Business Development

Graham McCorkill & Associates / Prime Property - Construction & Renovations

Various Roles

Founder & Tech Startup Specialist / Startup Success & Community Manager @ Stone & Chalk 🚀

Are you in the early stages of creating an innovative new mobile app, web app, SaaS platform, or any other tech product?

I HELP FOUNDERS LIKE YOU, ACCELERATE THE JOURNEY FROM IDEA TO SUCCESSFUL RELEASE AND BEYOND. 

So, why would you seek help?

When you’re creating a tech product startup, there are many unique challenges that can derail the whole venture, even before it gets off the ground.

The fact is… 91% of all first-time tech founders fail.

Here's the good news… These mistakes are easily avoided and you can 10X your chance of success if you have a proven ‘roadmap’ to guide you.

My goal is to help you defy the odds and become one of the star founders who turn their startup dream into reality.


Let me share a little of my experience.

Over the past four decades, I've been in business. From working in the family company to founding or co-founding over 8 successful startups… Conventional and tech based.

In 2012, I co-founded Buzinga Apps, a small app development company based in Melbourne.

We grew Buzinga to one of the fastest-growing development agencies in Australia, until late 2017 when we sold.

During this period, sadly I witnessed numerous clients fail to achieve commercial success… Many, for reasons I thought were totally avoidable (in retrospect).

This sparked my obsession with success systems for tech startups.

I delved deep into design thinking, lean methodology, lean startup, and exponential growth strategy, among others. And had the opportunity to hang out with a bunch of successful founders, gaining their insights about what it takes.

There are several fundamental steps at each stage of tech business growth that must be completed to have any chance at commercial success.

In the past five years I have coached five tech startups to successful outcomes and impacted more than 120 with advice, guides and training.

If you're a first-time tech founder and could use some help... simply follow me here on LinkedIn.

AND, subscribe to my '10X Founders Edge' newsletter.

Head to my website for more information and resources:  kuboom.com.au

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In 2024, I’ve taken on a new challenge. I’ve joined the passionate team at Stone and Chalk’s Melbourne Hub as ‘Startup Success and Community Manager’.

Stone and Chalk are the largest innovation community in Australia.

If you're the founder of an Emerging Tech Startup and are experiencing some initial traction, be sure to reach out to me…

Let’s explore how we can help you accelerate success and connect you with mentors, customers, investors and other founders in our community.

Graham McCorkill

I CAN’T BELIEVE 2025 IS ALMOST DONE… 

BUT... before we ride off into the sunset, we’re throwing one last, giant, boots-and-all celebration for the entire Victorian Startup Community!

🎉 The Community Collective X Stone & Chalk End-of-Year Party – WILD WEST STYLE! 🪕

This is our biggest party of the year... and trust me, it’s going to be a cracker!

Think:
 🍔  Yummy snacks
 🥂  Sparkling beverages
 🧠  Big ideas
 🐎  Even bigger personalities

All year long we’ve backed bold founders, sparked wild conversations and created spaces where ideas take off. Now it’s time to round up your crew, raise a glass and celebrate the people and achievements that made 2025 legendary. 🍻 

🗓️  Thursday November 27th from 5:30pm
📍  Stone & Chalk Melbourne – 121 King Street
💜  Drinks, bites & big ideas included

🎟️  Grab your spot here: https://lnkd.in/gTnKDvau

Expect conversations that spark new possibilities—and a night that sends 2025 off with a bang.

Hope to see you there 🤠

Melissa Despotellis Imtiaz Aziz Paz Pisarski 🏵 Ines Schuber Janenie Mohgan Alex Shiell Pavi Iyer ✨ Samantha "Venia" Logan Natalie Badawy 💻 Blake Francis Eike Zeller Annie Le Cavalier Liz van Zyl Desmond John Robert Gallup Peter Gatt Megan Luttrell 🤝 Josh Lipscombe 🌈 Elle Phillips Sherin Breuer ⚡️⚡️Dave McManus⚡️⚡️ Callum Holt Dr Sam Donegan Xavier Andueza

Tech Startup Specialist / Head of Ecosystem @ Stone & Chalk Melbourne 🚀

The Community Collective and Stone & Chalk End of year party

ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT... DON'T MISS OUT!

The Community Collective X Stone & Chalk End-of-Year Party – WILD WEST STYLE! 🪕

This is our biggest party of the year... 

Think:
 🍔 Yummy snacks
 🥂 Sparkling beverages
 🧠 Big ideas
 🐎 Even bigger personalities

If you haven't already, round up your posse, grab your tickets and let's raise a glass and celebrate with the people that made 2025 legendary. 🍻 

🗓️ TONIGHT (Nov 27th) from 5pm
📍 Stone & Chalk Melbourne – 121 King Street
💜 Drinks, bites & big ideas included

🎟️ Grab your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gTnKDvau

Expect conversations that spark new possibilities—and a night that sends 2025 off with a bang... AND LOTS OF PHOTOS!

Hope to see you there 🤠

Melissa Despotellis Imtiaz Aziz Paz Pisarski Ines Schuber Alex Shiell Pavi Iyer Eike Zeller Liz van Zyl Desmond John Robert Gallup Megan Luttrell Sherin Breuer Callum Holt Dr Sam Donegan Xavier Andueza Kate Pollard Dane McFarlane Olivia Grandjean-Thomsen Paulette Parker Lucinda Batey

Chief Commercial Officer @ Andromeda Robotics

📣Hiring -> Marketing & Content Manager 💡🚀🎨  
(Humanoid Robotics)

At Andromeda we're doing something amazing. We're changing peoples lives for the better by developing empathetic humanoid robotics for complex care settings.

Our mission is a simple but incredible one, to replace a Billion hours of loneliness with companionship for those who need it the most.

We're searching for a passionate 'Marketing & Content Manager' to join our growing team. If you or someone you know would like to apply we'd love to hear from you, click here to learn more: 👉  https://lnkd.in/gtbaWSEP

50 in 50 Challenge 

Building 50 projects in 50 weeks using only AI tools and vibe coding practices. Recording tutorials and creating resources for non tech founders to learn the fundamentals of Lovable, Supabase, Cursor and many other tools.

In first half of 2025 I've: 
- Built over 40 apps and publicly launched 17 of them, signing up more than 3,000 users
- Hosted dozens of bootcamps, a Hackathon, and did 4-5 AMA sessions on Vibe Coding
- Had over 500 students graduate a vibe coding course that I built with the help of Starter Story 
- Reached 100,000 views on my YouTube channel 

The second half of 2025 will be 100% focused on monetization of products and services, so stay tuned for my updates!

AI Vibe Coder

CitizenShipper

Mission: Work with the CEO to help oversee the company’s growing activities and operations while tackling all types of general operational initiatives and setting goals across the organization. Advise on employee performance, hiring, and termination, and help ensure that teams and projects run smoothly.

Goals:

- Monitor cross-company KPIs, and help the CEO manage the organization's operations
- Coordinate and collaborate with all departments and team members, communicating the CEO’s company vision across all levels
- Ensure the right strategy is constantly being executed - at the highest quality, and using actionable, data-driven insights
- Help CEO Manage business operations and set goals across the entire organization
- Coordinating and achieving goals, by selecting important tasks and administrative activities that employees must carry out within their departments. Developing strategic initiatives that can improve efficiency throughout business operations

Responsibilities: 

- Assist with the financial aspect of the business to make sure everything is running smoothly and recommend solutions that will improve profitability
- Collaborate very closely with C-level leadership to strategize and execute long-term plans that usher in new levels of productivity, efficiency, and success 
- Monitor and improve daily operations and address potential issues when they arise, proactively seek and capitalize on opportunities for operational improvements
- Measure the efficiency of systems and procedures
- Track business results, perform cost-benefit analyses, establish (production) KPIs, monitor them, and conduct quality assessments
- Ensure all systems operate smoothly 
- Coordinate with the People Operations department to ensure our hiring plans meet our business needs
- Take into account the needs of external and internal stakeholders and incorporate them into new strategic plans

VP of Business Operations

As Head of the Driver Team at CitizenShipper, my main objective is to ensure that drivers using our marketplace have the best possible support along their journey. We use multiple tools and techniques to achieve many of the results which I am proud of: 
- We grown our active driver community by over 5x in the last 2 years, with hundreds of drivers finding valuable work and generating income through CitizenShipper each month. 
- 6,000+ drivers completed our onboarding courses, resulting in over 30,000 completed shipments in the last 12 months
- We completed hundreds coaching calls to drivers with any sort of background and experience that resulted in creating full-time carriers, many of which can be read on our blog
- We have 3 driver onboarding dedicated communities with over 3,500 drivers being active members
- Drivers using our platform did over 1 million miles in the last 12 months, transporting pets and valuables across the US

Recently, I have taken upon myself to learn more about SEO and paid marketing with the help of my co-workers and our generous professional development stipend. I also look forward to our next video game night competition!

Head of Success

- Grew social media presence across multiple channels, increasing driver engagement.
- Established and managed driver communities, improving onboarding and job-winning rates, and reducing churn by 75%.
- Enhanced customer support efficiency, reducing response times by 50% and achieving a 97% response rate within 24 hours.

Social Media Community Manager

MARKET Protocol

MARKET Protocol allows users to trade the price of anything while leveraging the benefits of the blockchain. Trade stocks, cryptocurrencies, and traditional assets. You can currently experience the power of blockchain derivatives trading with MPX, our decentralized exchange (DEX) built on top of MARKET Protocol.

I have been a team member almost since its inception, with a priority focus on the marketing startegy and social media as well as community building and engagement. During my tenure, the founders have empowered me with a lot of knowledge on the derivatives industry and have had a lot of flexibility and acceptance for my ideas and initiatives, always being oriented towards testing and learning from our experiences. They have enabled me to grow as a person and a professional, and allowed me the freedom to represent our project in all the capacity I felt will best demonstrate the revolutionary idea we are working on. The biggest takeaway for me while working with the team was the quality of relationships we have established among ourselves despite the cultural, professional background and timezone differences. They have a great recipe of how to build a remote and distributed workplace.

Head of Marketing

White City Logistics

- Worked alongside the company owner to scale the logistics operations
- Fulfillment of over 1,000 trips with Amazon Inc. with excellent ratings

Fleet Manager

Centrotexnica 

- Led the procurement team, increasing procurement application efficiency by 300% through process optimization and supplier negotiations.
- Successfully managed contracts worth over $1 million, ensuring compliance with public procurement regulations.
- Implemented a new procurement management system.

Head of Procurement

- Former fleet, marketing and general manager, failed startup co-founder, currently a VP of Business Operations at CitizenShipper. 

- Nowadays I am on a mission alongside 40+ companions at CitizenShipper in building the future of long-distance pet, car, motorcycle, boat shipping and more! 

- Mastering AI before it masters me first. Successful graduate of the inaugural #100DaysOfAI challenge. 

- Currently building 50 Projects in 50 weeks using only AI tools. Watch my cringe demo videos here https://www.youtube.com/@50in50challenge

- Learning how to play golf! Happy to hear your tips on how to improve my driving distance!

Lazar Jovanovic

I'm starting to believe that we really need to rethink how we're build things. 

For example: 

- I don't think you need a CMS anymore, you can just build a blog on Lovable, clone and edit blog posts or landing pages in a single prompt, which is much faster than filling out text boxes. 

- Same goes for video editing and generation I guess - Whitney Menarcheck just showed us this is possible to do with Lovable too. 

- I built a chrome extension with Lovable recently even though it should not be technically possible. It just works.  

To those who say that the biggest bottleneck of development with AI tools will be hardware, memory, windows, models or anything else - I say that the biggest obstacle are actually our brains, which are hardwired to the old ways of thinking. 

Find a super bold and crazy idea, and try to build it. Who's to say it can't be done!

The biggest AI breakthrough is here! 💪

I will one time say to my grandkids I was there when it happened! 

Happy reaching 1,000h of non stop Vibe Coding Dev Chat on Lovable everyone! 

Bobby Siegfried Whitney Menarcheck Alex Cinovoj Skyler Talley Shane Spencer and everyone else 🔥

Slick! Amazing work Felix Haas Abey Thomas Joy Nad Chishtie Gustav Kjellin emil fagerholm Emil Ahlbäck Elliot Lindberg and everyone else in making this experience Lovable 😍

Describe the future of software in 4 words and MAKE NO MISTAKE 😍

Make something people love.

Now live in SF Bay Area.

The designs!!! 😍 😍 🎁 

If you hesitated until now - you just have to try Lovable today!

Lovable now uses Claude Opus 4.5 as a core model for better designs. 

Early results show:
• 15% fewer mistakes
• 5% higher project success rate
• Noticeably better designs

All these upgrades come at no additional cost for Lovable users. Let us know what you think of it!

Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gtQnRHjJ

This is why I love what I do 😍 

I envy the person that decided that today is the day they finally give this Lovable (or some even misspell it loveable) a try! 

This guy went from needing 264 days to get started to 12 days to a finished prototype. 

Don't wait!!! 

Start building tonight 🙏

Another banger set of features drop on a Friday afternoon 😎 

This team never stops 🚢🚢🚢

Introducing Lovable Themes, Design View and AI Image Generation

1. Themes let you set brand standards and reuse them across your projects. You can create multiple themes and switch between them easily.

2. Improvements to visual edits. Select multiple elements and edit them together. Control margins, padding, fonts, and colors in the sidebar. Edit more text directly on the page. Adjust borders, shadows, and icons.

3. AI-powered image generation. Create and edit images with AI without leaving Lovable or hunting for stock photos. Describe the image you want and let Lovable create it for you.

You can find all these tools in a new design view that brings your visual editing tools into one place.

Now live for all Lovable users.

Everyone at Thanksgiving dinner watching football or TikTok, and all I want to do is vibe code. 

So grateful for what I get to do for a living 😍

Vibe on the go from mobile for mobile is so underrated! 

One of my most productive build weekends in a while, I always love when I just vibe for the fun of it 😍 

Roast my builds please, tell me what to build next. 

And make sure to play around with Lovable next time while waiting for a bus, a meal, a friend!

For everyone in my network that want to hear me speak Italian (powered by AI of course), my course on Getting Started with Lovable in collaboration with Learnn is now available! 

https://lnkd.in/efyEvARt

Open article: Lovable & Vibe Coding by learnn.com

Two massive milestones! 

So many reasons to be joyful today as this amazing team celebrates reaching its first anniversary and hitting $200M!!! 

Happy Birthday Lovable 😍 🔥

We launched Lovable one year ago, and today we hit $200M ARR.

Here's our story:

We started with a small team in Europe in a co-working space. Almost no one knew who we were, and we didn’t know what was coming.

But that changed quickly...

We transparently shared everything that happened on social media, including product updates, metrics, and new team members. 

Then, thousands of people started sharing what they built with Lovable.

Now, we have one of the most active communities in tech, with over 70 community-run events happening this week alone. People all over the world build 100,000+ new projects on Lovable every day.

It’s not just Lovable that’s grown fast: our users have too...

Lumoo, Quicktables, and Plinq are all products built entirely on Lovable with $10k-$100k in MRR just months after starting.

Designers, PMs, and even developers inside large companies have grown into an important customer group: HCA Healthcare now focuses less on mockups and more on patient care, and Klarna ships weekly instead of quarterly using Lovable.

Today, we’re releasing multiple product updates (read more on our blog):

1. MCP servers: Linear, Jira, Notion, Confluence, n8n
2. Themes: set brand standards across projects
3. Improved visual edits: multi-select components & image generation

MCPs are live today. Themes & visual edits rolling out this week.

We're also opening offices in Boston and San Francisco and building a world-class leadership team. Year one proved it works. Year two is about scale.

To thank you all for this year: For the next 7 days, if you refer someone to Lovable and they publish a project you'll both get 50 credits (that’s 5x more than usual!).

We're looking forward to many more Lovable years ❤️

The best vibe coding companion! 

I can't believe I am about to cross 400k words dictated - and mostly done on Lovable and any relevant app that I would use for project planning. 

Any other wispr-ers out there? Show me your stats!

Every time I think I know it all, I get surprised. 

And I am starting to think that there's almost nothing left that Lovable cannot do. 

All you need is an idea. 

It just works!

Tech with a Heartbeat | Community @ Lovable

I just made an entire video with Lovable. I didn’t know this was possible…
I planned, created, and edited the whole thing using only Lovable!

Most people know Lovable as an AI app builder, but it’s quickly becoming a powerful way to create shareable content too—including videos. If you haven’t tried video creation in Lovable yet, consider this your sign.

SheBuilds on Lovable continues to surprise me in such great ways. The number of women applying, building, and shipping with confidence is rising fast! And with acceptances officially live and the countdown to the event underway, I put together this video to capture the latest stats and celebrate the momentum.

#SheBuildsOnLovable

One of the many perks of working at Lovable is that you can get the world's top leaders to answer your questions. 

This session was amazing 🤩 

Want to join a future one? 

We're hiring across tons of departments, check out open positions at https://lnkd.in/eEHHnVvg

We’ve started a new internal series at Lovable:

1. We invite the world's best founders to join virtual sessions with the team
2. The team can ask questions
3. Lovable becomes a place for the team to keep learning

First speaker was Patrick Collison from Stripe, who should we invite next?

"The current environment rewards people who can create clarity instead of waiting for it." 

So simple, yet perfectly described - adding to my quotes for Thanksgiving dinner 😁

Open article: 6 months at Lovable and why I had to throw out most of my playbook by open.substack.com

6 months at Lovable and why I had to throw out most of my playbook

The single most underrated Lovable feature by far.

When you are in chat mode, Lovable reads your codebase, past messages, your prompt and assumes a role of a technical co-founder, much deeper than being an engineer executing your orders. 

I am not a developer, so I need someone to step in, and quite often too. And even if you are technical, who hasn't experienced a mental block at 10 PM after hours of building. 

It sets the course, writes the plan, all you have to do is click to implement and let it cook 🥧

Everything I learned about vibe coding comes as a result of being a chat first builder!

Announcing Claude Opus 4.5 is now powering Lovable's chat mode.

Our most successful users plan their builds with Lovable’s chat mode before making edits. Better planning means better builds, it’s that simple.

Opus 4.5’s frontier-level reasoning takes planning to another level.

It’s live in Lovable through December 5th.

Dear Lovable ladies - do not miss this opportunity to have the greatest holiday season ever, and instead of waiting for Santa, make your own dreams come true and give yourself the best gift yet!

SheBuilds on Lovable buildathon applications are open again!!! A buildathon created for women, by women. Will you be there!!?

SheBuilds on Lovable is for every woman who’s had a product idea strike while feeding the kids, between meetings, on a run, during school pickup, and thought, “if only I had the skills, time, or help.”

Good news: The time is *now*. And no coding skills are required!

You will join hundreds of other women, get 48 hours, build your idea, and we give you unlimited credits to make it happen. Together. We will support you. We will lift you up. YOU. WILL. SHIP!

I want women shipping apps that solve real problems they care about. Tools that help your community, your household, your kids, your parents, you business (and yea, make money). 

🔥 Because when women build, world gets better. 

Ladies, let's go build something nobody saw coming 💃 

Important deets:
1. 48 hour buildathon is Dec 15-17
2. applications close in 48 hours, on Nov 26th.

3. APPLY HERE: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gpzsUR-R ⬅️ 
(if you've applied before, apply again!) 
-> you must have a Lovable account to apply

4. we’re selecting ~200 participants across 3 categories: business app, consumer app, and social impact 

5.  prizes: 5K lovable credits, mentorship from me, memories to last a lifetime, and a community that will absolutely change your trajectory

Season 1 was a blast. Season 2 is going to be even better. Don’t miss it!

P.S. Who runs the world???

#lovable #womenintech

Share the love with everyone you know and give them the most valuable gift this holiday season - ability to make their dream app/store/website/tool/project come to life! 

And you also get 50 credits each! 

Hurry up, only 3 days left 🎁

A few days left to join the Lovable Yearbook and get 50 credits per person you refer to Lovable!

Over 2,000 people have already participated. Here's how you can too:

1. Go to Lovable and click the gift icon to find your referral link
2. Add it to your Yearbook submission here: https://lnkd.in/dw9P2nvV
3. Share your Yearbook photo on social and get 50 referral credits anytime someone signs up and publishes a project through your link

The yearbook referral bonus runs through Tuesday, November 25th.

Favorite Sunday read 🤩 can't wait for the next update!

This is what we improved to Lovable last month:

1. Improved agent context so the AI understands projects and edits more reliably.
2. Shopify integration so you can build full online stores just by chatting with AI.
3. Added clearer controls for managing your Cloud & AI usage.
4. Smoother custom domain setup and management.
5. Choose a primary domain and automatically redirect all others to it.
6. Added domain ownership validation before a domain goes live.
7. Ability to request access when opening a private project you're not part of.
8. "Workspace-only" publishing to restrict access to your workspace members.
9. Option to disconnect a project from GitHub if you need to move it elsewhere.
10. Ability to send files or images only, without text, as prompt.
11. Desktop notifications when long-running builds finish.

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