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Notes, links, the pitch you typed at 1am. Build straight off it.
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Apps of the future, launched today
Créez votre propre app, par vous-même.
Apportez l’idée. Orbit crée le produit, le lance sur votre domaine et continue de l’améliorer avec vous.You build the product, put it on your own domain, and grow it from there.
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Par défaut · tous les écrans
Your first launch is free
Build it with the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already pay for. I add nothing on top, and the first app stays live for free.
Your own domain
Bring your own and point it at the free app. Adding a domain is not an upgrade — HTTPS and sign-in come wired.
Your own data
It sits in a database nothing else shares. Not a few rows inside somebody else's table.
The parts you build in
One app. Five surfaces you can see and change.
Open one, change it, and the rest keeps up.
Data model
Draw the data
Draw the tables. They run as Postgres, and your rows survive a deploy.
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Workflows
Wire the logic
Say what happens when somebody books. It runs on a server, not a tab.
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Mockup
Draw the screens
Draw each screen, wired to your data. What you draw is what ships.
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Launch
Put it live
One deploy. A URL, HTTPS and a database, on a domain you own.
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The Orbit flywheel
An app is never done.
Version one is a guess. You find out what you built the week somebody uses it. What you learn on Friday, you change on Monday.
- Explore
- Ideas, notes and links, in one place.
- Shape
- Decide what you are building, and what you are not.
- Build
- The screens, the data, the logic.
- Launch
- Your own domain, with hosting and HTTPS.
- Grow
- Watch people use it. That tells you the next thing.
Grow feeds Explore, and round again. The parts a prototype skips are the parts that make the second turn cheap.
Five ways in, one app
Build from wherever you already work.
Claude, Codex, WhatsApp, the terminal, the browser. All of them read and write the same app. No export, and no moment where somebody says to open the real tool now.
Claude Code · the same app open in the studio
MCP
Codex · Orbit MCP
MCP
WhatsApp · screens come back as a picture
chat
$ orbit login
$ orbit apps create --title "Bright Meadow Dental"
$ orbit deploy create --app bright-meadow-dental
live at https://brightmeadow.dental
orbit · the CLI
terminal
launch.orbitapps.io · the browser studio
browser
Claude, or any MCP agent
Point it at Orbit and it works on the real app, not a sketch of one.
Codex
Same connection, same app. The backend comes with it.
WhatsApp
Describe it in a message. Screens come back as a picture. Tap once and they are live.
The CLI
Create, edit and launch without leaving the terminal.
The browser studio
The whole builder in a tab. Nothing to install, and the preview follows you.
Read this before you sign up
Where Orbit is worse.
Orbit is one bet about how an app gets built: data first, composed, not written. Every bet costs something. This one costs you four things. Better to know now than in week three.
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Orbit does not write code
You compose UI elements, integrations and a database that already exist. There is no escape hatch to a file. Cursor, Claude Code and ChatGPT will write you anything. Orbit will not.
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No free AI credits
Lovable, Bolt, Replit and Emergent bundle model credits into the price. Orbit does not. Bring your own key and it costs nothing. Otherwise every run comes off your balance.
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It only runs on Orbit
Your data model, your data and your domain are yours. The app runs on Orbit's hosting, and nowhere else. There is no export button. Ask, and I will build one.
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No genie in the bottle
One prompt gets you a screen. It will not get you a million-dollar app. The rest is work, and it is yours. The most Orbit can do is make it a joy.
What the bet pays
The parts you would have built next.
A page Google can find. Screens that update while you watch. A real app on a phone. A way for other software, and other people's AI, to use it. Each one is usually its own project. Here they all come from the app you already described.
postgres
There is a real app underneathIts own database, work that runs on a server while nobody is watching, and a way for people to sign in. The parts a demo skips.
llms.txt
Found by Google, and by ChatGPTEvery page is built on the server, so a search engine reads the real thing. Your app ships the files that crawlers and answer engines look for.
websocket
Nobody has to hit refreshWhen something changes, every open screen shows it straight away. Orbit still checks who is allowed to see it before it sends anything.
android · pwa
The same app, on a phoneYour app becomes a native Android build, with the icon taken from your own mark. On any phone, an iPhone included, people install it from a link.
/openapi.json
Other software can plug inYour data gets a proper API, and the document that describes it, both written for you. Anything you marked private stays out of both.
POST /mcp
Your customers' AI can use itYour app becomes a set of tools an AI assistant can call. Each person connects with their own key, so the assistant sees only what they can see.
Pricing
Your first launch is free.
After that there is no plan. Everything comes out of one balance, and nothing on it expires.
What you pay for
Your first live appfree
Its own Postgres, sign-in, and a domain you own. It stays free for as long as you keep it up, and it is not a trial.
Each deployment after thatby the hour
You pay for the hours it is up, and stopping it stops the meter. A live site and its preview count as two.
Models, search and imagesas they run
Drawn from the same balance, with no keys to keep and no second bill. Bring your own key and it draws nothing.
Credits never expire, they are refundable, and nothing auto-charges.
See what each one costsStraight answers
Six things people ask first.
Yes. Open the surface and change it yourself, or say what you want changed and let Orbit make the edit.
A backend. Every app gets its own Postgres, workflows that run on a server, and the tables and gates for sign-in. Add a login button and your Google credentials to switch it on.
Provider price plus 30%. I charge that so one balance covers every model, search and image call your app makes, and you never hold a key or reconcile a second bill. Adding credits earns 5% to 20% back, and your own key adds nothing.
Your data model, your data and your domain are yours, and you make the changes. The app runs on managed hosting, so there is no code export in the product. If you need the code or a repository for a client, ask and we set it up by hand.
Edit the surface and redeploy. Adding a field migrates on its own. A change that would drop a column never runs — Orbit skips it and asks you to approve the rest.
Clojure, ClojureScript, React and Postgres. You never have to think about any of that, and most people never do.
Your move
Build the one you keep talking about.
Your customers will use it. So will their agents. Building an app is hard enough. It doesn't have to be dull. The first one is free, on a domain of your own, and nobody is going to ask you for a card.