Shipd
AI app builder

AI App Builder for Building Real Applications

An AI app builder for real applications. Shipd plans your app, designs it, builds the backend and the frontend feature by feature, tests each piece in a live preview, and deploys it. From a new idea or from the repo you already have.

Free to start. No credit card.

Definition

What is an AI app builder?

An AI app builder is software that turns a plain-language description into a working application: the interface, the logic behind it, and often the backend and database, ready to preview and deploy without writing the code by hand.

Most AI application builders stop at a good-looking first version generated in one pass. A real application needs more than that: a server you own, features that are tested as they are added, and a way to keep changing the product after launch without starting over.

Shipd is a full-stack AI app builder and AI app development platform built for that longer path. It works like a small AI software team, and it works on new ideas and on existing codebases. The longer story is in Shipd: an AI app builder for real applications.

How Shipd works

From idea to deployment, in eight checked stages.

Every build moves through the same stages a good software team would use. You see each one happen, and you approve the hand-offs.

  1. 01

    Idea

    You describe the product in plain language, or answer the PM’s questions instead of writing a prompt.

  2. 02

    Planning

    Maya, the PM, turns the idea into a product brief and an ordered list of features to build.

  3. 03

    Design

    A creative direction, then a real design system: tokens, states, and motion, agreed before code.

  4. 04

    Backend

    Devin designs the API contract and generates the server and database in Node, Python, C#, or Java.

  5. 05

    Frontend

    Sam builds the interface against that same contract, one feature at a time.

  6. 06

    Testing

    Each feature is clicked, typed into, and re-read in the running app. A failed check is fixed first.

  7. 07

    Preview

    You try the working app in the live preview and approve it, or say what to change.

  8. 08

    Deployment

    One click to a live Vercel URL, a GitHub push, a custom domain, or a ZIP of the full source.

Capabilities

What makes it an AI app builder for real software.

Seven things separate a working application from a demo. Shipd does all of them, and the full list lives on the capabilities page.

Feature-by-feature builds

The app is planned as an ordered feature list and built one feature at a time, each one checked in the running app before the next starts. Not one giant guess.

Why one feature at a time

An AI team

A PM, a design director, a designer, a backend engineer, and a frontend engineer, each with their own job, in a pipeline you approve at every hand-off.

Meet the AI team

Live preview

The app runs in your browser as it is built, so you react to working software, not a screenshot. No local setup, no install step.

See every capability

A real backend

A generated server in Node.js, Python, C#, or Java with a database, designed contract-first. Code you own, not a wire into someone else’s platform.

The full-stack AI app builder

Your existing codebase

Shipd explores your repository, writes an Architecture Brief, and generates code that reuses your real components, tokens, and conventions.

How codebase-aware works

GitHub

Connect a repo, push new projects, and send completed work back as clean pull requests that stay in sync as your main branch moves.

Staying in sync with a repo

Deployment

Deploy to a public URL on Vercel in one click, point a custom domain, or export the full source and host it anywhere. No lock-in.

Ship and deploy options
Use cases

Built for the app you actually need.

An AI web app builder is only useful if it fits where you are: a blank page, a first release, or a product that already has users.

A new application

Start from an idea. The AI team interviews you, plans the features, and builds a working full-stack app you can open, click through, and deploy.

Start with the AI team

An MVP

Get a real first version in front of users: sign-in, per-user data, and a live URL. The free plan covers one full-stack app and one AI team run.

What the free tier builds

An existing application

Connect the repo you already have, or bring a Lovable, Bolt, or v0 project across, and keep adding features without rebuilding from scratch.

Bring an existing project

A SaaS product

Accounts, dashboards, and data that belongs to each user, grown one reviewed feature at a time as customers ask for more.

Builders for growing products

A client project

Agencies work inside each client’s codebase, in their stack and design system, and hand back pull requests the client’s team can review.

Shipd for agencies
Comparison

Why Shipd is different from one-shot AI builders.

One-shot builders are great at getting an idea on screen fast. Real applications take a longer path, and that is the path Shipd is designed around.

 
One-shot AI builders
Shipd
How the app is built
The whole app generated from one prompt, in one pass
Planned as a feature list, built and checked one feature at a time
Who does the work
A single chat model doing every job at once
A PM, design, backend, and frontend specialist, with your approval between stages
Backend
Often a frontend wired to a hosted service
A generated server and database in Node.js, Python, C#, or Java that you own
Testing
It compiled, so it is called done
Each feature exercised in the running app; failures fixed before the next feature
Existing code
Starts a fresh project every time
Reads your repo first and matches its components and conventions
After version one
Edits risk regenerating what already worked
Follow-up edits change the existing app, and every version is restorable

Comparing specific tools? Read Shipd vs Lovable, Shipd vs Bolt.new, Shipd vs v0, or the four-way comparison of AI app builders.

AI app builder questions, answered

Can an AI app builder create a backend?

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Yes, if it generates a real server rather than only a frontend. Shipd designs the API contract first, then generates a backend in Node.js, Python, C#, or Java with a database, and builds the frontend against that same contract. Generated apps also ship with end-user sign-in and per-user data, so a backend works from the first load.

Can an AI app builder work with GitHub?

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Shipd connects to GitHub with OAuth. You can push a new project into a fresh or existing repository, connect a repository so Shipd can read it before generating, and send completed work back as pull requests you review and merge yourself.

Can an AI app builder modify an existing project?

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Shipd can. It explores the repository, writes an Architecture Brief of its framework, components, and conventions, and generates changes that fit that code instead of scaffolding a new app. You can also import a project built in Lovable, Bolt, or v0 and keep developing it.

Can an AI app builder build a SaaS application?

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Yes. A SaaS product needs accounts, data that belongs to each user, and a steady stream of new features. Shipd builds the full stack with sign-in and isolated per-user data, and it adds features one at a time with each checked in the running app, which suits a product that keeps growing after launch.

Is Shipd free to try?

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Yes. The free plan includes 100k tokens a month, one full-stack app, one AI team run, one feature-by-feature build, three projects, and one live deploy. No credit card. Paid plans start at $19 a month.

Start building.

One full-stack app and one AI team run, free. Planned, built feature by feature, and checked as it goes. No credit card.

Further reading: Shipd: an AI app builder for real applications · How the AI team builds full-stack apps · AI that understands your codebase