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Prompt-to-app is a great demo. Owning what it built is a business.

Lovable, v0, Bolt and Replit generate an app fast — inside their platform, on their stack, metered in their credits. Most let you export the code; the workflow, the hosting and the margin on inference stay theirs. AiMixup gives you the two honest halves instead: a beautiful static site on your own domain, or a production application on the stack you pick, in your repo, on your servers.

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ClaudeClaude
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Which model should I use to ship this feature?
OpenAI
GPT-4o
Ship it with a queue worker — here's the handler.
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Add a retry + idempotency key so it's safe to re-run.
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Watch the 30s timeout — move it off the request path.
Ask all of them at once — keep the best answer.
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OpenAIGPT-4 Turbo
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GeminiGemini Ultra
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Feature
Lovable / v0 / Bolt
AiMixup
What you end up with
An app inside their platform
Files you own — or a repo on your own infrastructure
Stack
Theirs, and not negotiable
Static HTML/CSS/JS, or any language and framework you name
Hosting
Their cloud
Your custom domain, or your own servers
Model cost
Bundled credits with a margin on inference
Bring your own key — no markup
Before it builds
Straight from prompt to app
Wireframes, architecture and a plan you approve first
Review & tests
You are the QA
A second agent reviews the diff, a third tests it
Your team
A solo project
A shared board with roles and an audit log

Keep the speed. Keep the code, the stack and the bill.

Why teams move off prompt-to-app builders

The stack is your decision, not a default

Go and Vue. PHP and React. Python and htmx. VB Box takes the stack as an input to the plan instead of handing you whatever the platform standardised on — which is the moment nobody else gives you.

It draws before it builds

A design agent comes back with real wireframes, an architecture sketch and a written plan broken into cards. A human approves it before a line is written. That step is free, and yours to keep whether or not you build it with us.

Two honest products, not one that overpromises

Light Builder makes a beautiful static site on your own domain from $5/mo — no accounts, no database, no server-side code, and we say so up front. VB Box builds the real application at $30/seat. Picking the wrong one is the expensive mistake, so we make the line obvious.

Your key, your tokens, no markup

Credit bundles hide a margin on inference. You bring your own provider key, so you pay list price for the model and pay us for the board — and a per-task budget stops a run before it overspends.

Get the design and wireframes free

Describe what you want built. You keep the wireframes, the architecture and the plan whether or not you build it here.

Frequently asked questions

Can I export the code?

There is nothing to export — VB Box works in your git repository from the first card, and the application runs on your infrastructure. Light Builder hands you the site's source files.

What can Light Builder not do?

User accounts, a database, server-side code, payments and admin panels. It emits a static site on purpose. If your idea needs any of those, VB Box is the right half of the product and we would rather tell you now than after you pay.

Is Light Builder available today?

Yes — Light Builder is available now, from $5/mo. VB Box is available too, in two shapes: VB Box Pro runs on a US server we provision and operate for you, and VB Box Enterprise installs the same platform on your own infrastructure (that one starts with a conversation).

Do you host what gets built?

Light Builder sites are hosted by us on your domain. VB Box output runs wherever you want it — your server, your cloud, or ours if you would rather we operated it.

How is the pricing different?

Prompt-to-app tools sell credit tiers that include a margin on model usage. VB Box is $30 per seat per month for the board, with your own provider key underneath at list price, and design and wireframes cost nothing.