We set out to build the world's best AI website builder. Not another template tool. Not another code generator. A complete AI agent that thinks like a senior designer - asks questions, plans your site structure, builds page by page, generates images, logos, and icons. Paste any website URL - AI redesigns it in 2 minutes, keeping your content. Visual editor. Voice input in any language. Update from your phone. One-click publish with hosting and custom domain. 10 years. 1.1M users. 26M+ projects.
Hi HN,
I've been building Playcode since 2016. Started as a JavaScript playground - think CodePen/JSFiddle but with a real bundler, NPM packages, and live preview. Over time it grew to 1.1M registered users and 26M projects.
In March 2026, we pivoted. Our data showed that AI website builder users converted at 10x the rate of playground users. The paying customers weren't developers - they were entrepreneurs, small business owners, freelancers.
So we rebuilt the entire frontend experience around AI. You describe your business, AI asks clarifying questions, creates a sitemap, then builds pages one by one. It generates images, logos, icons. You can paste an old website URL and it redesigns it with modern code. Visual editor for direct changes. One-click publish with hosting included.
Tech stack: Vue 3, NestJS, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse for analytics, best available AI (LLM) providers (Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Grok) - AI picks the best model per task).
Revenue doubled in the first month after the pivot.
What I learned: sometimes your best product isn't the one you set out to build. It's the one your data points you toward.
Try it: https://playcode.io/ai-website-b...
Happy to answer questions about the tech, the pivot decision, or the business.
Does this website builder more emphasise UI side of things, or what is distinction to similar tools, like lovable, base44 etc.
AI getting "done for you" websites up is so cool.
I'm creating a CLI that I need a website for will try Playcode for sure. Does it take into account AEO best practices?
About Playcode on Product Hunt
“The world's best AI website builder. 10 years in the making.”
Playcode launched on Product Hunt on March 26th, 2026 and earned 155 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. We set out to build the world's best AI website builder. Not another template tool. Not another code generator. A complete AI agent that thinks like a senior designer - asks questions, plans your site structure, builds page by page, generates images, logos, and icons. Paste any website URL - AI redesigns it in 2 minutes, keeping your content. Visual editor. Voice input in any language. Update from your phone. One-click publish with hosting and custom domain. 10 years. 1.1M users. 26M+ projects.
Playcode was featured in Design Tools (259.5k followers), Website Builder (9.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.2k followers) and No-Code (5.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 129k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Playcode?
Playcode was hunted by Ruslan Ianberdin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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