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Make Your Ideas Clickable With Kineto by JetBrains

While developing a website or an app, you’ll encounter loads of technical challenges that need to be solved – from how to code the functionality to how to host it. Delivering even a simple to-do app requires a hefty technology stack, a team of professionals, and hours of testing and maintenance. This is the reason why millions of great ideas remain little more than ideas and never end up becoming ready-to-use products. 

We saw it as a challenge and inspiration to develop and introduce our new product, Kineto by JetBrains – a platform that helps create, deploy, and maintain ready-to-use websites and apps. 

From now on, anybody in the world will be able to effortlessly create their own personal or professional app and share it with their friends – just as easily as our phones allow us to take pictures, record videos, and share these on social media today. Why look for an existing app when you can create your own in 20 minutes? 

As of yet, nobody has been able to develop technology capable of doing this: website constructors increase web development speeds, but they still require your input to actually build a website, and while there are generative AI platforms, these still need you to do some (vibe) coding. At this moment in time, there is no platform that allows people with no coding experience to build a ready-to-use app and actually enjoy the process of building it.

Now, with the release of Kineto, we have taken a significant step toward making this dream a reality.

With Kineto, we’re building a bridge between creative people, small businesses, and no-code platforms, contributing to the emergence of a creative dev economy – a new era in which people will create their own personal web apps with minimal effort. 

The key principle behind Kineto is no code for you at all. We and our tools take care of the coding, so you could focus on being creative. We’ve leveraged 25 years of experience building products for developers to create this technology that will help millions of people make their ideas happen – and truly enjoy the process of creation. 

Today, Kineto is perfect for creating small, “single value” applications. Whether we’re talking about a website, a plant care app, a fitness tracker, a personal blog, a day planner, or even a small quiz app – you can build them all without a single line of code. Kineto will create a fully functional app with a UI, backend, and database that can all be changed through the chat interface. Kineto needs some time to create your web app – usually it takes around 20 minutes to build the first prototype, and then it’s up to you how to improve it.

Future iterations of Kineto will bring even more complex and beautiful ideas to life, even taking care of hosting and suggesting helpful improvements to your apps along the way. 

Let us walk you through how Kineto works. 

It all starts with an idea

The first step with Kineto is to formulate the prompt with a detailed explanation of what your app should do, and what it should look like. Every prompt is processed by Kineto and translated into appropriate functionality. You don’t need to explain every single button or provide extensive references; Kineto will think of all that for you and then propose a suitable interface and design.

Kineto helps you ship your web application

It’s okay if you don’t know exactly what you want your app to look like. Kineto will ask you to choose a basic design template, color scheme, and font in order to give it a solid starting point from which to build your app.

All you need is a prompt – and complex software architecture under the hood

All apps need a bit of fine-tuning. But you don’t want to write a new prompt every single time you need to make a minor change. This is where Kineto’s Meta Layer mode comes in – it lets you verify and modify functionality, user roles, and rules of your app.

Preview your prototype

Your prototype will be ready in ~20 minutes – it takes some time for Kineto to generate a fully functional website or web app. During this period, Kineto will create a complex app architecture and then build and test the right functionality based on your prompt.

Develop your app

You can add your desired features, rehash the design, embed AI-generated illustrations or your own images, and so much more. Make your ideas come to life!

Publish your website or web app

The only step left now is to publish your app, share it, and start using it. When you’re happy with how Kineto implemented your app, share it with us so we can add it to our library of apps created by Kineto.

The Early Access Program is now open

At JetBrains, we’ve been building tools for professional developers, and now we want to offer our technologies to creators who’ve never coded – or even planned to.

If this describes you, we’d love for you to trial Kineto and share your experience with us. The Early Access Program is now open, and we invite you to join the waitlist to try it out for yourself. We’ll review all applications and grant free access to a select group of users with no coding experience, with priority being given to those who already know what they want to create. As a participant in our Early Access Program, you won’t just receive access to Kineto – you’ll also enjoy the full support of our team, who will assist you as you build and polish your app. 

Our goal is to help you close Kineto happy with your app – and hopefully welcome you back again later to make more.

Please understand that we won’t be able to provide access to all applicants in order to ensure that we can give those selected the required focus and attention.

Join us to build a creative dev future – together.