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This is so weird, its not that hard to actually build an app builder. There are multiple open-source repos (bolt etc), they could have just paid their "AI engineer" to actually build an AI engineer.

Shameless plug, but we built (https://v1.slashml.com), in roughly 2 weeks. Granted its not as mature, but we don't have billions :)



> its not that hard to actually build an app builder

Besides simple one page self-contained apps, yes, it's quite hard. So hard that it's still an unsolved problem.



not really, lovable, v0, and bolt all are mutlipage. They connect to supabase for db and auth. Replit can spinup custom dbs on-demand, and have a full-fledged IDE.

I did my research before jumping into this space :)


Which ones prevent anybody with a browser accessing other user's data? I have been discussing vibe coding and Supabase's Postgres row level security misconfiguration.


replit, from what I know, and lovable to a certain extent.


They launched in 2016


Should have pivoted faster.


It's plausible they started with a typical software consultancy and its crappy in house app builder scripts, and reformed it as an AI thing in order to inflate its value?


That'd be shameful, and a complete disgrace, it'd be like adding "bitcoin" to your company name or 10k fillings a few years ago to boost your stock


In case anyone thinks parent is speaking hypothetically:

Insider trading charges filed over Long Island Iced Tea’s blockchain ‘pivot’ https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/10/investing/blockchain-long-isl...


worked for GameStop


I mean zapier is also calling their workflows, "agents", I remember someone ranting about it on twitter.


Nice, I'll try this out tonight.


thanks, do ping me if you run into any issues faizank@slashml.com




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