Axel Adlercreutz

Building the last piece of software

[Daniel Trevino @danieltrevinob]

My boy @emilfagerholm built this amazing feature and promised me a fancy dinner if I get the most retweets on the team.

Please help a brother out ���😂

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

For most of software history, even if you understood a problem better than anyone, you still needed someone else to help you build the solution.

That meant a lot of good ideas never became products.

Today we’re sharing our first look at the global build economy: more than 50M projects built on Lovable and 720M monthly visits to Lovable-built projects. Ideas are becoming products, and products are turning into companies.

The people building them are also different from what many would expect.
They may not have a CS degree, venture capital, or a technical co-founder, but they have customer knowledge, industry context, and a clear sense of what needs to exist.

It is still early, but the direction is clear: as this category matures, the impact will be greater than just more software. There will be more solutions, more companies, and more economic activity.

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

We just launched one-click export to Lovable! ❤️

@Lovable is an incredible AI app builder that turns your ideas into real, working software—including the frontend, backend, and database.

When you export your Stitch project:
✨ Lovable opens automatically
✨ Stitch passes over your screenshots
✨ We include exact references to the HTML right in the prompt

Lovable downloads your HTML and creates a pixel-perfect, full-stack application based on your exact aesthetic. Have a blast turning your designs into reality! 🚀

[Lovable @Lovable]

Introducing the Lovable aesthetics update, a new level of design in vibe coding.

Ask for typography, layout, and color preferences. Preview design concepts before building, and create bolder landing pages, apps, and blogs.

[EU-Startups @EU_Startups]

Realm, a Helsinki-based #startup that builds a structured understanding of a company’s go-to-market and turns it into #execution, has raised a €3.8 million #Seed round to speed up #enterprise #sales cycles. 🇫🇮 🤖💼

https://t.co/hvYVPCncbt

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Dps, tank, utility, healer

[Jordan Taylor @Jordan_W_Taylor]

The Economist published this article that's contentious but probably right: It argues that laws protecting labour in much of Europe make lay-offs so onerous that high-risk moonshot projects become unviable.

Making it easier to fire people could, weirdly, benefit everyone.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Peter Hegseth now confirmed to have a Russian email address. The password matches his other email addresses which were all compromised in a mass data breach.

This is the Secretary of Defense, what a disaster.

[Anna-Lena Laurén @AnnalenaLauren]

Kära Sverige. Vi har gett er Tove Jansson, Mark Levengood, Monika Fagerholm och Daniel Ståhl. Nu har vi gett er KAJ. Ni behöver inte säga tack. Vi gör det så gärna, för Sveriges sak är vår🇫🇮🇸🇪

[Anders Adlercreutz @adleande]

3 years of Russian aggression.
3 years of unspeakable war crimes.

Ukraine deserves peace but it also deserves its independence, its resources, its pride and sovereignty. It deserves a future in Europe.

We need to step up for a just peace for Ukraine.

[EU–INC @euinc_petition]

Europe, it's time for action! 🇪🇺

Join our petition for an EU-Inc:
A pan-European startup entity

Goal:
- fix investments
- fix europe-wide employment
- fix stock options
- unite the European startup ecosystems

We got 6 weeks to make this real!
Sign here: https://t.co/qI2I08vg3X

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words.

"Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000."

"First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling."

"There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. [...] However, while the EU boasts a strong university system on average, not enough universities and research institutions are at the top. Using volume of publications in top academic science journals as an indicative metric, the EU has only three research institutions ranked among the top 50 globally, whereas the US has 21 and China 15."

"Regulatory barriers to scaling up are particularly onerous in the tech sector, especially for young companies. Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways. First, complex and costly procedures across fragmented national systems discourage inventors from filing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), hindering young companies from leveraging the Single Market. Second, the EU’s regulatory stance towards tech companies hampers innovation: the EU now has around 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 regulators active in digital networks across all Member States. Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power – a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and “gold plating” of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies – which are often non-EU based – have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. Young innovative tech companies may choose not to operate in the EU at all."

More: https://t.co/x1d1ApvG2Z.

[Anders Adlercreutz @adleande]

Uutena opetusministerinä esitän 5 teesiä, joiden ajattelen olevan merkityksellisiä peruskoulua kehitettäessä.

Varoitus:
Teksti on pitkä. Luotan siihen, että ainakin opettajat @oajry jaksavat lukea pitkiäkin tekstejä.

https://t.co/sYnffGxXWW

[Anders Adlercreutz @adleande]

Tyttäreni @onlyilon uusi biisi on mielestäni aika hyvä.

Pitkän Parisuhteen Pelko
https://t.co/Al5KT3WKOE

[Tech.eu @tech_eu]

Ex-Slush leaders' startup Realm secures €1.7M for AI knowledge search https://t.co/tVJ2R8aqiI

[Anders Adlercreutz @adleande]

Onneksi olkoon Ruotsi - och välkommen!

[Anders Adlercreutz @adleande]

Tämä on kyynistä valtapeliä, josta kärsii ennen kaikkea työntekijät, työpaikat ja Suomi.

Tämän sijaan toivoisin liitoilta rakentavia ehdotuksia siitä, miten Suomea tulisi rakentaa ja kehittää tässä ajassa ja kohtaamiemme haasteiden edessä. https://t.co/yy2ELxhqO4

[Slush @SlushHQ]

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[Slush @SlushHQ]

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It’s so exciting to see how curious everyone is to meet each other and we just can’t wait to see how many meetings are made possible at the event.

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[Doublepoint @doublepointlab]

November 30th, @SlushHQ main stage.