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Introducing PiPilot V4: build full-stack apps from your phone
V4 is our biggest release yet. Cloud sandboxes mean a complete build environment now lives in your pocket — describe an app on your phone and watch a real, deployable full-stack project come to life in a live preview. Here’s everything that’s new.
PiPilot Host Fullstack: pick it, build it, ship it
PiPilot Host is now a first-class project type. Choose “PiPilot Host Fullstack” in the composer and you start on a working scaffold wired to the platform SDK — the AI edits real files, and one Publish packages the whole app and deploys it. No deploy JSON, no config, no separate account.
Introducing PiPilot Host: the AI ships the backend too
Our proprietary full-stack hosting engine is here — a Vercel alternative where the AI doesn’t just build your app, it deploys it. A live frontend, a serverless backend, a database, storage, and secrets, all on one domain, with zero config and no separate account.
Your app can now make its own demo video
PiPilot can now render a real, narrated MP4 from a prompt — themed motion cards, AI voiceover, music, captions, and a live screen-recording of the app you just built. Straight to your Google Drive as a shareable link.
Introducing the Launchpad: a weekly competition for apps built with PiPilot
Ship an app, publish it live, and put it up for a vote. Every week the community picks its favorites at /showcase — top 3 win bonus build hours and a spot on the Wall of Fame. A new week opens automatically when the last one closes.
What’s new: templates, cloning, sharing, and a real File Manager
The weeks since V4 have been busy. A template gallery, cloning any UI, bringing your own images into a build, a proper File Manager, project sharing, a Profile page, referrals, one-click GitHub, and instant web hosting — a roundup of everything that just shipped.
Start from a template — and publish your own
A blank page is the slowest way to start. The new template gallery gives you polished, working starters for every web framework — and lets you publish your own project as a community template others can build from.
Share a project with anyone, in one click
Send a whole project to another PiPilot user by email and they claim their own copy instantly — text, code, and generated assets included. Here’s how it works, and why it’s GitHub-backed and self-cleaning under the hood.
AnyClaude SDK: the open-source engine now at PiPilot’s core
The agent loop that runs every PiPilot build is now the open-source AnyClaude SDK, published on npm and adopted as the core builder in the PiPilot workspace. Here’s what changed, why we open-sourced it, and what it means for your builds.
Your code, your Google Drive: why we don’t host your projects
Most AI builders lock your work inside their platform. We do the opposite — projects sync to a private folder in your own Google Drive. Here’s why ownership was a founding principle, not an afterthought.
Inside Agent Teams: parallel AI that ships faster
A single agent works step by step. A team works in parallel. We break down how PiPilot spawns coordinated sub-agents and Mission Runners that split a build, verify each other’s work, and merge the results — so big builds finish faster and you stay in control.
Real browser automation, built in
The app PiPilot builds is the app it actually tests. We gave the agent a real cloud Chromium through Playwright — so it clicks through flows, screenshots the result, and fixes its own visual bugs before handing back.
From idea to live app in one chat
A practical walkthrough: start with a single sentence, refine in conversation, and end with a deployed app on a shareable URL. The prompts, the pacing, and the small tricks that get you there faster.
Deploy full-stack with zero setup
One click takes you from prompt to a live URL — a free, keyless instant deploy for the frontend and an instant Postgres (PiPilot DB) for auth and data. No config files, no environment juggling. We show you exactly how it wires up.
The day everything changed: how PiPilot started
In late July 2025, our founder tried every AI dev tool and none delivered. So he built the one he needed. The honest story behind PiPilot — and why a daily frustration turned into a product.