For founders and solo builders

Another quarter, and it is still a deck.

Build it anyway.

Q: What does it cost to launch?

Building is free and your first live app is free. Each app after that starts at $19 a month. AI can run from prepaid Orbit credits, or cost nothing to Orbit if you bring your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription.

You have been describing this for a year. Now you compose it: screens, a Postgres database, sign-in, and a live URL on your own domain.

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Free to build. Your first live app is free, custom domain included.

Orbit building and previewing a founder's first working app

Before you build

You do not have to know yet.

The idea is a year old and still half-formed. That is what the Scratchpad is for: the notes, the links and the pitch you typed at 1am, on one canvas, before anything is built.

01Everything lands as a cardNotes, links, images and data become cards you can move and connect. It saves as you go.

02Ask it on the boardSearch, pull references, and turn the raw pile into something readable, without leaving the canvas.

03See it before you commitPreview the app on the board first. The build comes after you like what you are looking at.

Nothing on the board costs anything, and nothing on it is a commitment. The first thing you build is the thing you already decided on.

What you settled for

You know this month.

The deck where the product is still imaginedTwelve slides describing software that does not exist yet.

The spreadsheet standing in for the backendShared with your first users, edited by everyone, trusted by nobody.

The prototype nobody can log intoScreens you can click through, and not one real record behind them.

The quote that moves launch two quarters outThree months of two developers, before you learn whether anyone wants it.

Every one of those is a stand-in for the app. That is the whole point.

The math

Your runway does not change. What you get for it does.

To get the first version live	What it costs you
A technical co-founder	A permanent share of the company
Hiring a developer	A salary spent before you know it works
Orbit	Free to build. Your first deployment is free. Each one after that from $19 a month.

What you can build

Four things you could have live this week.

The MVP itself

Sign-up, your data, and a REST API, running on your domain. The product that has sat in a deck for a year.

A waitlist that does something

Not a form feeding a spreadsheet. Sign-in, real records, and a first-run flow your early users move through.

The tool you run the company on

The spreadsheet you and two others fight over, rebuilt with a data model, sign-in, and a workflow you can edit.

The one thing that closes the pilot

A customer says yes if it does one specific thing. Build that this week instead of promising it next quarter.

Burn

You can still plan the runway.

AI and hosting both show up in the usage view, split day by day. The month is a number you can read today, not one that arrives after you have spent it.

Orbit routes the AI

Drawn from a prepaid balance where one credit is one dollar. Credits never expire.

visible daily usage

You bring your own

Connect the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already pay for. Nothing extra to sign up for.

$0 to Orbit

After launch

Nothing is frozen at launch.

You built it, so you keep changing it. Hosting costs from $19 a month per deployment, and stopping one returns the unused days.

What your users try next week is a change you make on Tuesday, not a release you plan a quarter around.

Proof

Your logo is not on this page yet.

Orbit is new and the founder case studies are not written. So rather than ask you to believe a testimonial: building is free, and your first live app is free on your own domain. Build the thing and judge it yourself.

Before you book

What is not self-serve yet.

Code handover is on request, not a button.Orbit runs the app, so there is no download sitting in the product. If your investors or a future engineering hire need the source, or a GitHub repo, ask and we set it up.

Moving an app to a new company account is a conversation, not a button.There is no self-serve transfer today. If ownership needs to move once you incorporate, raise, or bring on a co-founder, ask us and we move it.

Founders, answered.

Do I need a technical co-founder?

No. You can scope, build, change, and launch from one workspace on your own.

Is this a real product or a prototype?

Real. Each launched app has its own Postgres database, sign-in, access rules, workflows, hosting, HTTPS, and domain.

What does it cost to launch?

Building is free and your first deployment is free. Each one after that starts at $19 a month, charged for the hours it is up. AI can run from prepaid Orbit credits, or cost nothing to Orbit if you bring your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription.

Can I put it in front of customers and investors?

Yes. It runs on your own domain, so what they open is your product, not a preview link with someone else's name on it.

What do I own, and what can I hand over?

The app, its data, and the domain, reachable over a REST API. Orbit runs the app, so the source is not a download in the product, but if your contract or your investors need the code or a GitHub repo, ask and we set it up.

What if I hire developers later?

Then hire them. The data sits in Postgres behind a REST API they can work against on their first day. There is no source-code download in the product, so if you need the code or a repository for a client, ask and we set it up by hand.

What if the idea does not work?

You cannot get stuck holding the bill. Charging follows the live deployment, so taking the app down ends it and the unused days return to your balance.

What if Orbit shuts down?

You get the code, your data, and the database, or help moving to a platform of your choice.

The idea is already a year old.

Send us the one you keep describing.