Avoid at All Costs: Total Account Wipeout, No Recovery, No Accountability
I used Emergent for client work and rapid prototyping. In mid-January one of my accounts suddenly was gone. The account was there, I could log in but every single app I had built—hours of customizing, tweaking, working, —vanished. Deleted. Gone. No warning, no backup prompt, no “oops we migrated” email. Just poof.
I opened a support ticket immediately (January 19). It’s now February 13. Almost a full month later. Zero meaningful response. No restoration. No timeline. No apology. No refund. No executive escalation. Crickets.
Yesterday I logged into my other personal project account and found it too was empty....the folders are there for all the apps I had been building, just no code. Gone. Once again I contacted support, once again got a response to do this or that -- everything I had done (clear the cache, open it in vscode --this one I had already done and sent screenshots to show there is nothing in there) They do not seem to care. I had been a paying customer since Aug 2025, never missed a payment, bought a lot of extra tokens, had spent a lot of time building apps there.
The damage:
Lost a major paying client who was literally days away from final sign-off.
Burned through weeks of billable dev time I can never recover.
Destroyed months of momentum and portfolio pieces I was using to close new deals.
Emergent
Hi makers!
I'm thrilled to launch Emergent on Product Hunt today. We built Emergent because we believe everyone with ambitious ideas should be able to turn them into full-scale apps with just a prompt.
We believe the next big creator wave is happening in software and the old barriers of needing an expensive dev team has to be overcome for the world's most ambitious ideas to come to life.
We've built a system that emulates how a real, high-quality engineering team ships. Our core is a multi-agent system, where agents specialise:
Planning Agent for architecture
Coding Agent for the build
Testing Agent to test your apps
Deployment Agent to handle production errors
This end-to-end autonomous approach is why we were able to reach #1 in the world on the SWE-Bench benchmark. Our focus is on high-quality, bug-free, shippable apps.
We're extremely proud of what we're unlocking for non-technical makers around the world. We're seeing our users launch ideas they abandoned because of the complexity and cost of a dev shop.
Over 1.5M users have built 2M+ apps so far,
A Michigan jewellery store owner built an app to price repairs across 50 stores and now she's selling to other jewellers.
A small business owner replaced spreadsheets with an app that lets staff snap a photo to quickly onboard wheelchairs.
A UK ex-product manager launched an EV marketplace app for the booming electric vehicle sector.
If you wish to experience what building on a truly agentic platform looks like, use the code PH10 to get 10% off across all our plans (monthly/yearly) for the next 24 hours.
What do you wish to build? What excites you about Emergent? What would you like to know before vibe coding your ideas?
We're here to answer any questions you have about our product. Thanks for checking us out!