Introducing Freebuff Web: free, instant full-stack apps

OK — this is the post I've been waiting to write. Vly is becoming Freebuff Web. Same product, same team, same templates. We just took the price tag off. The very short version: you type one prompt at freebuff.com, you get a real full-stack app with auth, a database, a deployed URL, and a GitHub repo. The bill at the end is $0.

I want to say up front: this isn't a free trial. There's no 14-day countdown. It's not a credit system that runs out after one big task. We have argued about this internally a lot, and we landed where we landed: if free coding tools can be as good as paid ones (and at this point, they can), then making people choose between price and quality just isn't the right product. So we didn't.

What "full-stack" actually means here#

Most AI app generators give you a single-file React demo and call it shipped. Freebuff Web wires up the boring stuff so the app you get is the app you would actually deploy.

• Auth. Sign in with Google, GitHub, or email magic links. Sessions, roles, and protected routes work out of the box.
• Database. A real backing store with schemas, mutations, queries, and migrations. No "save it to localStorage" jank.
• File storage. Upload, store, and serve user-generated files without writing infra.
• Hosting. Every prompt deploys to a live URL within seconds. Custom domains are one click.
• Codebase. You own the code. Eject to GitHub any time, then keep editing it in the Freebuff CLI.

Why we built it (and why now)#

Vly was good. I'm proud of it. But the credit system always nagged at me — you'd be three prompts into something promising, hit the cap, and the momentum would die. The right product was always going to be one where you didn't have to think about how many tries you had left.

Then a few things happened in parallel. Open-weight models got really good at front-end code. Convex made the data layer trivial. The Freebuff CLI gave us a way to fund Freebuff Web through CLI ads instead of subscriptions. Suddenly removing the cap stopped being a sacrifice and started being the obvious move.

How it compares#

The Freebuff Web → CLI loop#

Freebuff Web is fastest for greenfield. The Freebuff CLI is fastest for editing. The trick is that both share the same agent, the same context model, and the same subagents — so you can prototype in the browser, eject to GitHub, and keep iterating in your terminal without losing momentum.

1. 1Prompt your idea on freebuff.com. Get a deployed app.
2. 2Iterate visually until the shape is right.
3. 3Push to GitHub and cd into the repo.
4. 4Run freebuff and let the CLI take over for the heavy refactors.
5. 5Deploy from the CLI with /deploy.