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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 :)

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> 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.

https://v0.dev?

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

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

In case anyone thinks parent is speaking hypothetically:

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worked for GameStop

Nice, I'll try this out tonight.

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

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