Growhold
About one in eight businesses that name Lovable, Replit or Base44 want to move off it. Almost none want to leave the Supabase, Stripe and React underneath. The value sits in the layer that stays, and the opening is the door out.
In July 2025, Lovable raised $200 million at a $1.8 billion valuation, eight months after launch. Three months later, Supabase, the database most AI app builders set up for you, raised at $5 billion, and its founders credited vibe coding for the growth.
Both are winning. Market demand shows they are winning different games.
The builder gets left. The stack stays.
Right now, about one in eight businesses that name an AI app builder want to move off it. Lovable, Replit, Base44, Bolt, v0: the tools that turn a prompt into a working app are named more often than before. They are also left far more often than anything they generate.
Tools named in live market demand.
The React front end stays. The Supabase database stays. Stripe stays. A quarter of the businesses leaving a builder name those same parts in the same breath.
What they leave is the room the app was made in.
The prompt was never the product. It was the scaffolding, and scaffolding comes down.
The builders sit at the top. The stack they generate sits at the bottom.
Where they go
The destinations split in two.
Apps go to a code repository and a cloud account the business owns: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, a self-hosted Postgres. Sites go where a marketing team already works: WordPress, Framer, Webflow, with every post and every URL carried over.
Either way, the move is about ownership. The data was always in Supabase. Now the code has to live somewhere the business controls too.
The layer that made the start easy is the one people leave
This is not a story about bad tools. Lovable and Base44 do exactly what they promise. A founder with no engineering team ships something real, and real customers show up.
That is the moment the builder stops fitting.
The part that made day one easy gets left. The part that holds the data stays. Supabase's valuation is that line, priced in. And it holds far beyond app builders: any product that wins on a fast start should expect the day its users outgrow it.
What to build for the businesses already leaving
The market is asking for a door out, and few products are built to be one.
- An eject button that works. One action that turns a Lovable or Base44 app into a clean repository, with the Supabase project, the Stripe keys and a deploy pipeline intact.
- Hosting made for AI-built apps. Staging, logs, backups and rollbacks for apps whose makers never set any of that up, priced for a founder with ten paying customers.
- A site migrator that keeps search traffic. Takes a prompt-built site with a hundred posts to WordPress or Webflow without breaking a single link.
If your product is where someone starts, build the exit before they ask for it.
If it is where their data lives, you are the part they keep.
