lovable might make a generation of black millionaires.

the door to building wealth through software just opened — and it's cheaper than your phone bill. don't let them tell you you're not allowed in.

i’m building 10 apps in public to prove we belong in this. the flops, the $5 months, all of it. come watch.

let me be careful with this one, because i hate hype and i hate when people sell dreams.

so i’m going to tell you the truth, including my own embarrassing numbers, and you can decide for yourself.

here’s the truth: the single biggest barrier to building wealth through software was never the idea. it was the build. you needed $50k-$150k to hire engineers, or you needed years to learn to code yourself, or you needed a technical co-founder who’d take half your company. that wall kept a LOT of people out. and a disproportionate number of the people it kept out looked like me.

that wall just came down.

the old playbook is dead

let me say what we were all told to do. the traditional path. the one that was supposed to work.

get the degree. maybe get the certification on top of it. use that to get into tech, or transition into tech from whatever you were doing before. land the entry-level role. then job hop — every two years, jump to a new company for a 20-30% raise, because loyalty doesn’t pay, switching does. stack those jumps until you hit the six-figure role. and THEN, once you’re making real money, start investing into assets. real estate. stocks. maybe angel investing if you got really comfortable.

that was the ladder. degree → tech → job hop → six figures → assets → wealth.

that ladder is broken now.

because the bottom rungs are on fire. you can’t job hop your way up when 674 people a day are getting laid off. you can’t count on the six-figure role being there in two years when the role itself is being handed to ai. the path that was supposed to be safe — school, certification, climb — is the exact path getting demolished right now.

so life looks different for the foreseeable future. and i’m trying to put you onto game before everybody figures it out.

why this matters for us specifically

black folks have always been entrepreneurial. we’ve always had the hustle, the ideas, the culture that the whole internet copies. what we historically haven’t had is access to capital and access to technical resources. you can’t bootstrap a startup when you’re starting from generational debt instead of generational wealth. you can’t “just ask your parents for a small loan” when that’s not the reality.

so we got locked out of the highest-leverage wealth tool of the last 30 years: software. the thing that minted trillion-dollar companies. we watched from the outside because the entry fee was a six-figure dev budget or a cs degree.

lovable — and tools like it — drop that entry fee to basically zero.

you can build a real, functional, monetizable app, with payments, with a database, with SEO, with integrations, for the cost of a subscription. no engineers. no co-founder taking 50%. no $100k. just you, an idea, and the discipline to ship.

that’s not a small thing. that’s the most democratized access to wealth-building technology has ever been. and the people who move first — who treat this seriously instead of as a toy — are going to build real money.

and notice what changed about the ladder. the old way, you needed the six-figure job first before you could invest in assets. now? the app you build IS the asset. you skip the entire middle. you don’t need to climb the corporate ladder to afford to start building wealth — the building of wealth is the thing you do directly.

but let me show you my real numbers (so you don’t think i’m selling you a fantasy)

i launched two apps this month.

recapgpt.app — it turns youtube videos into actionable plans and notes. you drop in a video, it gives you back something you can actually use instead of another three hours you’ll never get back. it’s currently making a grand total of... $5 a month.

five dollars. one customer. i’m not embarrassed to tell you that.

postspace.app — it gives you daily content ideas and briefs so you never have to stare at a blank screen wondering what to post. it’s currently making $0 a month.

zero. nothing. nada.

now why am i telling you this? because the lie people sell is “build an app, get rich overnight.” that’s not how this works and i won’t insult you with it.

here’s how it actually works: i built and shipped two real products this month — products that would have cost me tens of thousands of dollars and months of engineering time a year ago — for the price of a tool subscription. recapgpt has its first paying customer. that customer becomes ten. ten becomes fifty. and meanwhile i’m shipping the next one, and the next one.

my whole portfolio is at $5k/mo right now. my goal is $40k/mo in nine months. not from one viral hit — from a portfolio of small, boring, profitable apps stacking on top of each other.

the millionaire math isn’t “one app makes you rich.” it’s “you can now build a portfolio of cash-flowing assets for almost nothing, and software margins are insane.” that’s the unlock. that’s what we never had access to before.

how to actually start building on lovable

if you’ve never touched code in your life, here’s the real path:

1. start with a problem you actually have. not “the next uber.” a small, annoying problem in your own life or work. the best first apps are unsexy. recapgpt exists because i was watching youtube videos full of gold and never doing anything with them — so i built something that turns them into actual plans and notes.

2. describe it in plain english. lovable builds from prompts. you literally type what you want — “an app where users paste a youtube link and get back an action plan” — and it builds it. you refine by talking to it. this is the part that used to require an engineer.

3. add the money plumbing early. lovable now connects to stripe, supabase, and more. wire up payments from day one. an app with no way to pay you is a hobby, not a business.

4. use the new SEO and AI search features. they just dropped this. it means your app can actually get found on google and recommended by chatgpt — the distribution problem that used to kill indie apps is now built in.

5. ship it ugly. ship it fast. then improve. your first version will be embarrassing. ship it anyway. postspace makes $0 right now, but it exists, it’s live, and it can’t make a dollar until it’s out in the world.

6. do it again. one app probably won’t change your life. ten might. build the portfolio.

a few app ideas you could literally start this weekend

• a booking tool for a specific niche (braiders, barbers, mobile detailers — industries that get ignored by mainstream software)

• a faith-based habit tracker or devotional app for a community you’re part of

• a niche directory (black-owned businesses in your city, halal restaurants, vegan soul food)

• an ai tool for a profession you know — recapgpt is just “ai that turns youtube into action,” you could do “ai for [your industry]”

• a daily content idea generator for creators who freeze up at the blank page (that’s literally postspace)

• a simple invoicing or contract tool for freelancers in your field

none of these need to be revolutionary. they need to solve a real problem for real people who’ll pay $10-30/mo. that’s the whole game.

the part i need you to hear

the tool is not the hard part anymore. lovable handles the tool.

the hard part is you deciding you’re allowed to build wealth. that you don’t need permission. that you don’t need the degree, the co-founder, the funding, the white guy who “gets it” to vouch for you.

you need an idea, a subscription, and the refusal to wait for someone to hand you access that was never coming anyway.

we got locked out of the last wealth-building wave. we are not locked out of this one. the door is open and it’s cheaper than your phone bill.

i’m building ten apps in public to prove it can be done. some will flop. recapgpt’s at $5 and postspace is at $0 as i write this. i’m telling you that on purpose, because i want you to watch the whole thing — the embarrassing early numbers and, god willing, the part where it works.

go build something. ship it ugly. and let’s get free.

cheers…to the first generation of us who got in early. ❤️