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@alexcloudstar looking forward to hearing about your experience!

@alexcloudstar excited to see how it works for you 🖤

@alexcloudstar I look forward to your feedback. Feel free to add me on Discord as well if you have thoughts to share.

@ponikarovskii the Imagine team is the same team behind Appwrite. Imagine is the only vibe coding platform with full, mature, first party backend and cloud capabilities - already tested and used by +400,000 software engineers.

@ponikarovskii Rork seems to be a pretty cool platform to generate cross-platform/mobile apps, but I did not see much information on their website about any backend offerings aside from serverless functions, which are a staple for any real production-grade app.

Imagine is deeply integrated with Appwrite Cloud, so it comes with an already battle-tested backend infrastructure that is secure from the get-go, including dedicated offerings for databases, storage, auth (with a permissions system) and realtime events across all of these. Additionally, Imagine comes with a dedicated agent to handle provisioning of all these resources so you never need to write any separate code to automate backend management (or deal with it manually).

@avwave07 appreciate the feedback. A part of why the preview can take some time is that aside from just getting your changes up and running, Imagine has an additional code quality check to ensure that the generation code isn't broken. This improves reliability of each generation substantially.

With that said, we will definitely explore whether we can make this process quicker.

@avwave07 Thank you so much for your feedback and support! Our focus right now was mainly on getting best possible generation quality together with Appwrite Cloud. We have many opportunities in how to make the entire flow much faster from the LLM work to the UI and sandboxes, and will get to it very soon 🤞

@daniele_packard One really cool feature that Imagine offers is an agent dedicated to provisioning cloud resources for our in-built backend offerings (database, storage, etc.). This substantially streamlines the process of configuring database tables, adding new indexes, setting up a storage bucket and so on with the appropriate permissions.

That being said, Imagine does not restrict you from connecting to any external services via their APIs.

@daniele_packard Thanks for the kind words. Imagine is built on top of Appwrite Cloud, and both products are developed by the same team. This lets us treat them as a single, integrated system rather than stitching together separate services.

Appwrite already includes databases, authentication, storage, messaging, realtime, hosting, an edge network, and built-in security features. Imagine uses all of this directly when generating an app. The agent does not just write code - it provisions the backend, configures hosting, and wires everything together automatically.

Instead of toggling between Supabase for backend, Vercel for hosting, and an AI builder on top, you get one seamless experience. In most cases, you do not even need to know Appwrite is running in the background - it simply works as part of the product generation flow.

If you prefer Supabase, you can ask the agent to use it, but you will lose the native integration and end-to-end workflow that make Imagine shine.

@francesco_ciulla Thank you Francesco!! 🖤

@francesco_ciulla thanks a lot!

@abhi_varde appreciate your kind words! Would love to see what you build with Imagine 😄

@abhi_varde Thank you so much for your support 🖤