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Dennis Xu is a repeat tech startup founder , but he ’s the first to admit he ’s not a computer programmer .
After co - founding AI note - assume app Mem — one of OpenAI ’s earliest speculation investments — he has now launched a Modern inauguration calledAdaptive Computer .
Its la-di-da commission is nothing less than a all over reimagining of personal computer software system . He wants non - programmers to be using full - featured apps that they ’ve make themselves , simply by entering a text prompt into Adaptive ’s no - code web - app platform .
To make that happen , Xu and co - founding father Mike Soylu just declare a $ 7 million seed round , lead by Pebblebed with involution from Conviction , Weekend Fund , Jake Paul ’s Anti Fund , Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki , and others . ( Pebblebed is a relatively new seed fund found by Pamela Vagata , an AI technologist formerly of Stripe , and Keith Adams , former primary architect at Slack . )
Prior to LLMs , Xu enjoin he had to put to work with fashion designer , who work out with the engineers “ basically influencing people ” to build the thing he fancy . ( He left Mem in 2023 . )
But now , “ we ’d be able-bodied to put something in every individual ’s pocket where they could in reality construct the personal information processing system of their dreaming , ” as he describes it .
To be certain , this is n’t about the computer itself or any ironware — despite the company ’s name . The inauguration currently only builds web apps .
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However , for every app it builds , Adaptive Computer ’s locomotive engine treat creating a database instance , user authentication , file management , and can create apps that include payments ( via Stripe ) , scheduled tasks , and AI feature such as image coevals , speech synthesis , content analytic thinking , and World Wide Web search / research .
In present its merchandise , called ac1 , which is still in “ alpha mode ” ( meaning it has limited feature and functionality ) , I gave it a text prompting asking for a bicycle ride logarithm app . A hour later , it built a JavaScript - based app , complete with back - destruction database , with no further constellation need on my part .
While this app did n’t incorporate with third - political party service like my fitness watch , it did automatically append feature like sorting drive , tallying total distance , and compare rides . This was also a fully functional website , not a epitome , that could be partake with others to log their own drive , without sharing my personal data .
For true non-programmers
As interesting as this musical theme is , Adaptive Computer is hardly the first and only “ vibe coding ” platform out there , mean writing code based on text prompt .
Competitor Replit claims to haveover 30 million usersand has begun to cater to non - programmers so heavily that its founding father CEO , Amjad Masad , caused outrageby declare on X last month . “I no longer think you should discover to code . ”
Fast on both companies ’ heel is loveable , which claims its vibe coding undertaking is not just in effect fornon - computer programmer , but better for plan than Figma . The early - stage Swedish startup claims it grew its customer base to $ 10 million in ARR in its first 60 days .
Xu says the difference between these more effected product and his startup is that the others were originally gear toward produce scheduling easier for programmers .
And that means non - programmers could contend to use them . “ Try building an AI tool with either , and they ’ll demand you for API keys , ” Xu says , noting that it ’s these form of details that create difficulty for non - programmers . “ We ’re building for the unremarkable somebody who is interested in make thing to make their own lives intimately . Their users are masses who are building apps for other people . ”
Besides taking care of the back - end database and other technical details , Adaptive apps can work together . For illustration , a user can build a file - hosting app and the next app can access those file .
Xu likens this as more like an “ operating system ” rather than a single Web app .
Other examples of apps created by former users admit AI generated storytelling ; a coffee bean e - DoC site ; and a school text - to - speech reader for PDF files .
Adaptive Computer has three subscription levels : a limited costless version ; a $ 20 / month tier ; and a $ 100 / month Creator / Pro .
Here ’s a peek .
