The most complete AI builder ever made. With Imagine, you turn your ideas into functional products by chatting with AI. No matter your prompt, your applications will always have: - Built-in cloud: Auth, Databases, Storage, Notifications, Hosting - Fullest compliance: GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, CCPA - SSR and server functions, enabling fast load times and strong SEO - Highest security: DDoS, Abuse protection, Encryption, Data migrations - Scalability: Completely managed cloud infrastructure
It's truly an amazing product. For people that don't know coding, this is an amazing choice. It does all the backend, auth, etc. All in five minutes. I do think that the preview window can be made faster as it does take a while for it to load in. Other than that, it's great! It even shows the code it made. In the future, they will be adding more backend features. Though I don't need it as I know coding, it’s great for people that have a great idea but don't know how to code it.
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@avwave07 appreciate the feedback. A part of why the preview can take some time is that aside from just getting your changes up and running, Imagine has an additional code quality check to ensure that the generation code isn't broken. This improves reliability of each generation substantially.
With that said, we will definitely explore whether we can make this process quicker.
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@avwave07 Thank you so much for your feedback and support! Our focus right now was mainly on getting best possible generation quality together with Appwrite Cloud. We have many opportunities in how to make the entire flow much faster from the LLM work to the UI and sandboxes, and will get to it very soon 🤞
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@ponikarovskii the Imagine team is the same team behind Appwrite. Imagine is the only vibe coding platform with full, mature, first party backend and cloud capabilities - already tested and used by +400,000 software engineers.
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@ponikarovskii Rork seems to be a pretty cool platform to generate cross-platform/mobile apps, but I did not see much information on their website about any backend offerings aside from serverless functions, which are a staple for any real production-grade app.
Imagine is deeply integrated with Appwrite Cloud, so it comes with an already battle-tested backend infrastructure that is secure from the get-go, including dedicated offerings for databases, storage, auth (with a permissions system) and realtime events across all of these. Additionally, Imagine comes with a dedicated agent to handle provisioning of all these resources so you never need to write any separate code to automate backend management (or deal with it manually).
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Does it also support creating smartphone apps?
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@busmark_w_nika Currently, it supports only web apps. However, supporting mobile apps is a part of our long-term vision.
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@busmark_w_nika not just yet, but definitely something we have on our roadmap!
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@abhi_varde appreciate your kind words! Would love to see what you build with Imagine 😄
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@abhi_varde Thank you so much for your support 🖤
Hey, not to sound rude or anything- How is this different from other no-code tools?
I tried using this tools multiple times already, and aside from having Appwrite built into the product, I can't find any features that place it above other existing tools like v0 or bolt.
I'm curious if I'm missing something, or maybe using the tool incorrectly
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@raisfeld_ori Not rude at all, it's an important question. With Appwrite built-in, you get all the backend and hosting tools you need baked into the product.
The traditional database, auth, storage and messaging without needing to integrate with Supabase or any other 3rd party. With Appwrite Sites you get integrated hosting, Vercel level, again - built in, including edge network, SSR, CDN and DDoS protection.
The difference is in convenience and experience. With Appwrite being 100% open source and self-hostable - all this comes also with no vendor locking.
@eldad_fux Definitely agreed. Having Appwrite built into a tool makes the project take significantly less time to develop.
Once this tool matures a bit more and starts gaining more features, I believe it can replace most of the tools I currently use
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@raisfeld_ori Thanks for the question! Have you tried Imagine specifically yet? I encourage you to think of a prompt for a real complex product and provide it to both v0 and Imagine. Let us know how it went.
@arielweinberger I used it to develop a MVP for one of my projects.
I really like the authentication, storage and messaging features being built in, it makes the product feel more realistic and less like a mockup.
But it's also a disadvantage, since the MVP took longer to develop, since I had to also design a backend structure and bug fix more than usual.
I think it would be better for bigger projects, but at the point I don't think I can vibe-code the entire thing, so I'll probably not use Imagine for this task.
Now that I think about it, if I had this embedded in VScode it would be perfect, actually. Does this project have an API I can use?
Fully managed and "scalable" usually mean the platform automatically adjusts resources based on usage. Is its billing model sufficiently transparent and predictable? For a small application that may suddenly experience a traffic surge, how can I estimate and control potential hosting costs to avoid unexpected bills?
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@peng_ye2 Our free plan does not require you to add a credit card in advance. For paid plans, you can set a budget cap to prevent overcharges in case of a sudden surge in usage.
You can view our current usage limits on our pricing page. Any future updates to this will be communicated in advance on our blog and via email.
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@peng_ye2 you're correct, the system autoscale based on demand. We currently offer fixed amount of cloud usage under each plan, as we move forward we will also allow pay as you go add-ons similar to how we do on our Appwrite Cloud offering. Each user can also set an add-ons budget and set custom usage alert.
This looks really excellent, excited to try it out. Will it have in-app payment infrastructure, Stripe, etc.?
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@jimt1277 You can already integrate with external tools including Stripe, but we also plan to have a built-in integration for this.
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