Controlled trials show vibe coding accelerates fresh builds by 26% to 56%, and a six-month-old vibe-coding product sold for an initial $80 million plus earn-outs. Tools like Cursor and Claude Code hav…
AI companies captured 65% of US venture dollars in 2025, but the funding is concentrated in megadeals while small seed rounds shrank 20%. Only about one in six seed-stage AI startups reaches a Series …
Oded, co-founder of UniPaaS, tested three methods for integrating external payment providers into Base44 apps: MCP connections, OpenAPI integrations, and backend functions. The MCP connection provisio…
Founders launching AI-built apps must evaluate code ownership, build limits, data security, and pre-launch technical reviews, as highlighted by Builder.ai's bankruptcy after raising $450 million from …
A Hacker News user asks whether developers are paying for AI coding tools like Lovable, Replit, and Base44, and whether they use them for mockups or production products with paying customers. The user…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, roughly double its December Series B valuation, according to Sifted. The company has surpassed $500 …
Base44, a Tel Aviv startup acquired by Wix for $80 million, launched its own proprietary AI model called Base1 for vibe coding, claiming it is the first app-creation platform to ship its own model rat…
Base44 founder Maor Shlomo launched Base 1, a proprietary AI model for the Wix-owned app-building platform, aiming to reduce dependence on external model vendors and gain more control over costs and d…
Base44, acquired by Wix for $80 million in 2025, launched its own AI model Base 1 on June 29 to reduce reliance on third-party models and improve margins. The move comes as Base44 reaches $150 million…
Base44, the Wix-owned vibe coding platform, launched its proprietary large language model Base 1, becoming the first app-creation tool to deploy a homegrown model in production. The move aims to contr…
Base44, the vibe coding platform acquired by Wix for $80 million a year ago, has launched its own AI model, Base1, to improve latency, cost, and efficiency. The move addresses concerns about defensibi…
A developer compared seven AI app builders as alternatives to Lovable in 2026, including Bolt.new, v0 by Vercel, Replit Agent, Base44, Bubble, Cursor, and Velra. Each tool excels in different areas: B…
A developer identifies six common failure modes in Base44 apps built from prompts, including regression bugs, missing auth enforcement, silent payment failures, credit waste, SEO-empty shells, and dis…
Bain & Company is using AI coding tools to recreate parts of software acquisition targets' products during private equity due diligence, challenging the defensibility of software moats. The practice, …
No-code AI app builders like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit allow entrepreneurs to create functional software through text-based prompts without coding skills, with some startups claiming rapid revenue mil…
Wix is cutting approximately 1,000 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, in the largest layoff round in the company's history after its stock price collapsed nearly 50% since the start of the year and it pos…