Tom Osman
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Anything

August 2025

Anything (createanything.com) homepage
Screenshot from createanything.com

Anything is an AI app builder that creates full web and native mobile applications from a conversation. It combines design, frontend code, backend functions, databases, authentication, payments, hosting, and app-store workflows in one product. (Anything documentation)

The short version: it is aimed at people who want to move from an idea to a working product without assembling a separate stack first. You can still preview the app, inspect its generated React code, download it, and refine one feature at a time.

Why it’s compelling

  • Words → production code. You describe a project in English, Anything plans, writes the code, explores the app, and iterates when you ask for updates.
  • Autonomous debugging. The platform “automatically detects and fixes errors on its own,” so you stay in flow instead of diving into stack traces.
  • Scales up. Marketing claims it “automatically refactors your project so you can build projects >100k lines of code,” which matters for sustained builds rather than one-off demos.

Built-ins that cut setup time

  • Design system. Generates polished UX so the output doesn’t feel like generic AI slop.
  • Database. Every app gets an instant dev + prod Postgres database with ~1 GB free per app.
  • Payments. Stripe subscriptions or one-time charges can be wired up “in minutes” with no keys required.
  • Auth. Email/password plus Google, Facebook, X, etc. handled out of the box.
  • AI stack. Prompt once to add GPT-4o, GPT-5, o3, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5, and more—no API keys needed.
  • Integrations. “100s of useful APIs and libraries,” including Resend, Zapier, Google Maps, asset generation, translation, weather, etc.
  • Storage. Handles uploads of images, video, audio, PDFs, etc., without additional configuration.

How I’d use it

  1. Rapid MVPs. Feed it a product pitch and let it scaffold the frontend + backend with Stripe and auth already wired.
  2. Internal tooling. Describe dashboards, job trackers, or habit apps and push live without touching infra.
  3. Mobile parity. The same prompts can produce iOS/Android builds; they even launched an App Store client so you can iterate from your phone.

Access + notes

  • Start from createanything.com to sign up; pricing tiers cover hobbyists to teams.
  • There’s a native iOS app (“Anything on your phone”) plus mention of 500k creators already using it.
  • Because it abstracts infra, keep an eye on export options and version control if you need long-term maintainability.
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