Moldable
Personal software. Built for change.
90 followers
Personal software. Built for change.
90 followers
Build local apps that work exactly how you think — powered by AI, shaped by conversation. Everything's local on your machine, so you own it & can evolve it. Need a starting point? Use our free apps, like meeting recorder, notes, translation journal, and more https://moldable.sh/apps You have powers now. Go use them.
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@iwasrobbedtoo congrats on the launch. Is it also oriented towards the internal tools or only for commercial apps?
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@austin_heaton it’s geared towards personal apps on your local machine, whether for work or life! Your choice
Congrats on the launch — love the vision of letting people spin up private, local-first AI apps that actually evolve with their workflow instead of being stuck in yet another rigid SaaS.
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@zeiki_yu Thanks! Give it a try and let us know any feedback (or feel free to contribute any apps back!)
Local-first “build the app by conversation” + explicit filesystem approvals is a strong take on personal software. The scale pain is safety + determinism as users iterate (prompt drift → broken apps), and best practice is: a typed app schema + versioned diffs/migrations, plus a permissioned tool layer (capabilities) and replayable build logs for debugging. How are you representing apps under the hood (React/Tauri/Electron + JSON schema?), and will you add one-click export/share of an app as a signed bundle?
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@ryan_thill they are all NextJS react apps at the moment but can be published elsewhere if you want
@iwasrobbedtoo I resonate with the “I just need it to do one thing differently” pain. I’m building something in a similar spirit. We’re trying to make AI adapt to conversation dynamics rather than forcing everyone into the same chatbot UI.
How do you handle the tension between “infinite flexibility” and “users not knowing what to build”? We’re wrestling with that in our space too. People love the concept of a personalized AI participant but sometimes freeze when they realize they can actually shape its personality.
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@michael_trifonov Happy to chat sometime (https://www.linkedin.com/in/iwasrobbed/) but I think it's important to have canned / pre-installable experiences or prompts etc that people can use to bootstrap their intuition and mental model around what it can do
Moldable is early days but one of the long term goals is to open source a version of every paid SaaS app that people use... just from within Moldable
So people can just fork off one of those and mold it to their liking / needs
"Moldable" is the perfect name - flexibility is key for modern tools! This could be great for teams that have unique workflows. What's the learning curve like for setting up custom configurations?
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@easytoolsdev Thanks! and agreed on flexibility
Learning curve is still slightly more towards "Claude Code" end of the spectrum, but working hard on making it as foolproof as possible and welcome all feedback on how it could be better / simpler
I think when you make a CLI, people expect it to be cryptic and for them to need to do a lot of manual fixing / prompting when things don't quite work. When you build a GUI with pre-installable apps, for some reason people just expect everything to work perfect and even engineers fail to prompt it to "fix yourself" so there's a bit of polish left
Long term, think we need a new dev framework for the web where every app is moldable / personalizable