Notes on small software
Notes from spawnpoint on small software: what it is, how it runs, and what we learn running it. RSS.
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spawnpoint vs Base44 for a team's apps
On spawnpoint every app starts private, building is not metered, and the people you share an app with open it with an email code and no account. Base44 needs a paid plan for a private app and charges credits for each change its AI makes.
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Where to put the apps you build with Claude Code: 7 options compared
Seven places an app your coding agent wrote can go online, compared on who can open a private app, what ten people who build pay, and what the app can be. spawnpoint, Vercel, Replit, Lovable, Base44, Retool, and Claude artifacts.
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Internal tools built with AI: 6 places a company can keep them, compared
Where a company can keep the dashboards and tools its people build with coding agents, compared on who in the company can open them, who owns them, and the price for 10 builders and 40 coworkers. spawnpoint, Retool, Replit, Lovable, Vercel, and Claude Team.
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spawnpoint vs Lovable for a team's apps
Lovable builds and publishes apps in its own editor. spawnpoint puts the apps your team builds with the coding agent it already uses online, and the people you share them with need no account.
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When a Claude artifact should become a spawnpoint app
Keep an artifact when it is a page for people who use Claude. Move it to spawnpoint when it needs a server, more saved data, or viewers without a Claude account, and do it from the same chat.
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spawnpoint vs Replit for a team's apps
Replit is an editor, an agent, and publishing in one product, paid for in credits. spawnpoint puts the apps your team builds with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor online for one flat price, shared with people who need no account.
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spawnpoint vs Vercel for the apps your team builds with AI
Vercel suits engineers shipping a product to the public. spawnpoint suits the small apps people across a company build with a coding agent and share with coworkers, who open them with an email code and no account.
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spawnpoint vs Retool for internal tools
Retool builds internal tools in its own editor and bills every person who uses them. spawnpoint puts the apps your people build with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor online, and the people you share them with open them free.
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How to put an app you built with Claude Code online
Install spawnpoint once, sign in once, and tell Claude Code to deploy. A minute or two later it gives you a private link that stays online after you close your laptop. The same works in Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and a Claude chat.
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How to share Claude Code skills and MCP servers with your whole team
Publish your skills and deploy your MCP servers to a spawnpoint team. Every member's agent sees the team's skills, and one install line adds the team's MCP servers and skills to each person's Claude Code or Codex.
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How to share an app with a few people without making them sign up
On spawnpoint, share the app with their email address. They open the link and type a one-time code from their inbox. Nobody makes an account, and nobody you did not share with can open the app.
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Where should the apps your team builds with AI live?
In one place the whole company can open and owns, such as a spawnpoint team. Most of them live on one person's laptop today. Here is how a team changes that.
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We built our treg-powered CRM on spawnpoint
The CRM we use to find spawnpoint's own customers finds people through treg and runs on spawnpoint as a Node server, a Postgres database, an always-on Discord bot, and an open AI model. Claude Code built it and put it online in about fifteen minutes.
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You can spawn AI apps now
spawnpoint now runs open-source AI models on its own servers. Your app can chat, summarize, read images, search your documents, and make quick typed decisions, with the model calls staying inside spawnpoint.
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Bigger apps now go live faster
We changed how spawnpoint puts an app onto the computer it runs on. An app with 4 MB of files now goes live in 72 seconds instead of 93.
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What small software is
Software for one purpose or a few people, which an AI agent can now write in an afternoon, and the four things it needs once it works.
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Your apps can now keep their data and files
A spawnpoint app can now have its own database and its own file storage, and your agent adds them when the app needs them.