$200/day on Lovable
One attendee at the Malta villa was spending $200 per day on Lovable for app development, far exceeding the $300/month Replit plan others in the group were using.
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EP17: The SpaceX IPO Thesis Just Flipped + Anthropic Passed OpenAI (First Time IRL, w/ Reuben Ferrante)
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Jun 19, 2026
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$300 Replit, Lovable & Paperclip
At 32:45 · chapter starts 32:00
Ben clocks the math: Luca's $300/month Replit plan seemed extravagant until they learned a fellow villa guest was running up $200 per day on Lovable. [1] — Ben "$200/day on Lovable: One attendee at the Malta villa was spending $200 per day on Lovable for app development, far exceeding the $300/month…" 32:45 The irony is that a freelance developer from Fiverr would cost a similar amount and would use Codex or Clockwork anyway — so the vibe-coding middle layer might be the most expensive way to build. Luca pivots to defending Replit (it's worked for him, he's on test MRR) before introducing Paperclip — an open-source tool two villa attendees are using that allows human teams and AI agents to collaborate in a single UI, with Git-style issue tracking, no external Mattermost or Telegram required. Ben calls out Luca for advertising a tool he hasn't actually used yet, which earns a laugh.
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