Katnip AI

Build
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in minutes with AI

Explain your business case in plain English, let the AI build it for you. Ideate, iterate, make changes, deploy. The AI is like your friendly tech guy managing the project for you.

Katnip:
What do you want to build today
You:
I want to create an application for farmers in Kenya
Katnip:
Certainly! What specific challenges or needs do you aim to address for farmers in Kenya

From idea to web application fast

Create a database with prompts

Explain to the AI through a collaborative process, the data you want to capture until it comprehensively captures what you need

Design your app in your own words

Share your design concept with the AI, and it will come up with a design system to bring your idea to life. From fonts and colors to generic components

Update your app and make changes

Revamp your app with precision. Fine-tune, adjust, and enhance elements to perfection, add or removing features. Whatever you want, whenever you need

Plugins to add advance functionalities

Elevate your app's capabilities with powerful plugins. Integrate advanced functionalities like payment systems and user management, secure authentication

On edge deployment with one click

Deploy with ease on the edge of the cloud. Launch your project with just one click and easily specify your desired domain

Download app and host it yourself

Your code, your control. Download your application and take charge by self-hosting. Have autonomy over your digital presence

How it works under the hood

First, you start by having a chat with AI so that the AI understands the ins and outs of your business case.Then, the AI generates a first draft of the database and UI design to reflect your business case.The database and the UI are encoded in a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we've developed.You then tweak features and design elements with AI prompts.Optionally, you can update features using a simple drag-and-drop interface.If you're tech-savvy, you can edit the Domain Specific Language (DSL) yourself.The DSL is then compiled down into a full-stack app based on our open-source framework called Katnip.

AI should maintain the code it writes

Our rationale for developing our own DSL primarily focuses on improving code maintainability in AI-driven software development. Crafted to enhance AI productivity while ensuring its ability to maintain and iterate on code, our DSL operates on a 4GL declarative model.

Drawing from our experience, we understand the importance of reducing dependency on AI and LLMs for code generation to uphold code quality. Generating substantial volumes of low-level imperative code via AI frequently leads to codebases that pose challenges for subsequent AI maintenance should the need arise.

Rather than tasking AI with directly writing programming code for a website, we propose envisioning it as a comprehensive full-stack no-code environment. Here, AI orchestrates the configuration of frontend, backend, and database components, emphasizing ease of maintenance and iterative development.

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