Softr AI Co-Builder

Build business apps with AI - that actually work

Artificial Intelligence

No-Code

Vibe coding

Interesting approach. I'm a solo founder building a SaaS for a very niche industry (arboriculture — tree stability assessment) and the challenge of building business apps fast as a one-person team is real. How does Softr handle domain-specific data models that don't fit standard templates?

I’ve really enjoyed using Softr because it made building internal tools feel a lot less intimidating than I expected. What I like most is how quickly you can go from an idea in your head to something real that actually helps your workflow!

Softr is really the gift that keeps on giving. I think I subscribed 5 years ago and you guys keep adding features and making the platform more valuable for all of us every day. Thanks!!

The "2026 is the era of useful business software" framing is right. No-code tools that fail when real users and real data get involved have been the consistent gap.

I built StoryRoute (https://storyroute.netlify.app/) as a side project — an interactive travel app where users explore cities through curated story-driven routes. It's a niche use case, but shipping something with real interactivity without a full dev team is what made it viable. The tooling is finally at a point where the idea-to-working-app gap is genuinely closable for solo builders. Softr's focus on apps that run real operations rather than just demo well is the right priority. Curious how the AI Co-Builder handles complex relational data (the point where most no-code platforms start breaking down).

The gap between "working prototype" and "software your business actually runs on" is where most no-code tools quietly give up. That's the right problem to go after. Netflix and Google as reference customers is a bold flex though — would love to see some small business examples too. 👀

Congrats on the launch! Excited to see the evolution of Softr over the years.

Really interesting direction. The idea of generating not just UI but also database and logic in one go feels like a big step forward. How are teams typically iterating on apps after the initial AI build?

@mariam_hakobyan5 the product speaks for itself. Softr is the only AI platform in the space that can take you from painful workflow to complete end-to-end REAL app that solves that workflow, in a few minutes. AI + No code is the future. True autonomy in the workplace as a non-technical team is the best way to go faster, and the hundreds of thousands of users building portals and internal tooling have already proven this is a reality.

Proud of the team for this one! It's been awesome seeing what people build with it - actual operational tools for their business and teams, not just personal tools/experiments. Building an event app right now that we can use across the marketing team!

Great achievement for the entire team! 👏
And something rarely seen in the landscape of AI tools: an app builder that produces an app that's both working out of the box and can survive as many changes long-term as need, without any problems or degrading quality.

On the “AI vs visual editor” spectrum, where do you draw the line on what AI is allowed to change automatically (schema, permissions, workflows), and what product tradeoffs did you make to keep generated apps maintainable and debuggable versus fully code-first tools like Retool/Replit?

I'm also very fond of this one, and I think it's actually a pretty new view into the software development using AI agents. This doesn't do bare code development, but rather reuses components that are battle-hard and sure that they work. It's much better than just writing code that you cannot look into its details because you're lacking expertise or anything similar.

Back in 2023, not long after chatGPT came out, Softr was probably the first company to have launched an AI app builder (you can see it in our past launches 😄)

It felt like the most cutting-edge thing at the time.

...and our new AI co-builder just made that old version look like a toy.

I know the first thing on your mind is probably "How is Softr different from {another vibe coding tool}"?

Here is a TL;DR:

1. User auth, database, and automation out-of-box with their own UI. There's no need to wrangle multiple systems together or pay for multiple subscriptions.

2. You can build by both prompting AND visual editing. From our learnings over the past 5 years, combining both modes is truly the best UX. Many vibe coding tools get non-technical 80% there, and stay there. We let you actually finish the job with confidence.

3. Business apps require reliability – permissions, security, and custom logic...things that most people don't realize how complex it is (because most SaaS took care of it). We provide all the tools for any non-technical users to configure them without having to verify whether LLM-generated code does what they want.

4. We have highly flexible blocks, fields, actions, integrations, and features that are constantly being improved and maintained by our team. And if you need something more unique, you have the option to vibe code your own and connect to any API with secure auth. So you get the best of both worlds!

I know these claims are probably not enough to convince you, so you just have to try it out :)

The real test will be how well it handles complex business logic not just simple portals.

I’ve tried quite a few tools that promise to generate complete apps, and most of them tend to produce very similar, static, and somewhat monotonous results. With Softr, though, the experience felt different from the start, even the building process itself is genuinely delightful.

The output was surprisingly good and stood out compared to other tools I’ve tested. I especially liked how easy it is to preview the project across different devices, the responsive view is very handy.

If I could suggest one improvement, it would be adding an option like “be creative” (or something similar) when choosing a theme. That could give the AI more freedom and bring a fresh, unexpected touch to the generated designs.

That said, congratulations on the launch! 🚀

I had used Softr when the widget-based building was the norm. Any particular capability that differentiates Softr from the Replits and Emergents of the world @arturmkrtchyan