Cofounder | Early alpha release

• project - cofounder.openinterface.ai
• 👋 @n_raidenai

cofounder

• full stack generative web apps ; backend + db + stateful web apps
• gen ui rooted in app architecture, with ai-guided mockup designer & modular design systems

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Early Alpha : Unstable ⚠️

The following points are very emphasized :

• This is an EARLY, UNSTABLE, PREVIEW RELEASE of the project. ⚠️ Until v1 is released, it is expected to break often.
• It consumes a lot of tokens. If you are on a tokens budget, wait until v1 is released.
• Again, this is an early, unstable release. A first test run. An early preview of the project's ideas. Far from completion. Open-source iterative development. Work in progress. Unstable early alpha release. [etc]

If any of these might be issues for you, even in the slightest way, wait until v1 is released ! Do not try the current release !

To help you guide your decision on whether or not to try the current release , here is a guide

Situation	Recommendation
I'm not sure if this tool release is mature yet, maybe it will not work as intended and I may spend millions of tokens for nothing	Do not use it yet
I am very excited about this tool, I hope it is perfectly production-ready, because if it's not, I will make commentary about I spent X amount on OpenAI API calls	Do not use it yet
I am not interested in code. I want to type words into a box and have my project completed; I do not want messy broken unfinished code	Do not use it yet
I love exploring experimental tools but I am on the fence. It's going to break halfway and leave me sad	Do not use it yet
Who should even try it at this point?	Nobody. Do not use it yet
But I really want to use it for some esoteric reason having read all the above.	Do not use it yet either

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cofounder_project_demo.mp4

cofounder_dashboard_demo.mp4

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Important

Early alpha release ; earlier than expected by few weeks

Still not merged with key target features of the project, notably :

• project iteration modules for all dimensions of generated projects
• admin interface for event streams and (deeper) project iterations
• integrate the full genUI plugin :
  • generative design systems
  • deploy finetuned models & serve from api.cofounder
• local, browser-based dev env for the entire project scope
• add { react-native , flutter , other web frameworks }
• validations & swarm code review and autofix
• code optimization
• [...]

be patient :)

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Usage

Install & Init

• Open your terminal and run

npx @openinterface/cofounder

Follow the instructions. The installer

• will ask you for your keys
• setup dirs & start installs
• will start the local cofounder/api builder and server
• will open the web dashboard where you can create new projects (at http://localhost:4200 ) 🎉

note :
you will be asked for a cofounder.openinterface.ai key
it is recommended to use one as it enables the designer/layoutv1 and swarm/external-apis features
and can be used without limits during the current early alpha period

the full index will be available for local download on v1 release

• currently using node v22 for the whole project.

# alternatively, you can make a new project without going through the dashboard
# by runing :
npx @openinterface/cofounder -p "YourAppProjectName" -d "describe your app here" -a "(optional) design instructions"

Run Generated Apps

• Your backend & vite+react web app will incrementally generate inside ./apps/{YourApp} Open your terminal in ./apps/{YourApp} and run

npm i && npm run dev

It will start both the backend and vite+react, concurrently, after installing their dependencies Go to http://localhost:5173/ to open the web app 🎉

• From within the generated apps , you can use ⌘+K / Ctrl+K to iterate on UI components

[more details later]

Notes

Dashboard & Local API

If you resume later and would like to iterate on your generated apps, the local ./cofounder/api server needs to be running to receive queries

You can (re)start the local cofounder API running the following command from ./cofounder/api

npm run start

The dashboard will open in http://localhost:4200

• note: You can also generate new apps from the same env, without the the dashboard, by running, from ./cofounder/api, one of these commands

  npm run start -- -p "ProjectName" -f "some app description" -a "minimalist and spacious , light theme"
  npm run start -- -p "ProjectName" -f "./example_description.txt" -a "minimalist and spacious , light theme"

Concurrency

[the architecture will be further detailed and documented later]

Every "node" in the cofounder architecture has a defined configuration under ./cofounder/api/system/structure/nodes/{category}/{name}.yaml to handle things like concurrency, retries and limits per time interval

For example, if you want multiple LLM generations to run in parallel (when possible - sequences and parallels are defined in DAGS under ./cofounder/api/system/structure/sequences/{definition}.yaml ), go to

#./cofounder/api/system/structure/nodes/op/llm.yaml
nodes:
 op:LLM::GEN:
  desc: "..."
  in: [model, messages, preparser, parser, query, stream]
  out: [generated, usage]
  queue:
   concurrency: 1 # <------------------------------- here 
 op:LLM::VECTORIZE:
  desc: "{texts} -> {vectors}"
  in: [texts]
  out: [vectors, usage]
 mapreduce: true
 op:LLM::VECTORIZE:CHUNK:
  desc: "{texts} -> {vectors}"
  in: [texts]
  out: [vectors, usage]
  queue:
   concurrency: 50

and change the op:LLM::GEN parameter concurrency to a higher value

The default LLM concurrency is set to 2 so you can see what's happening in your console streams step by step - but you can increment it depending on your api keys limits

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Changelog

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Roadmap

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Benchmarks

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Community & Links

• | Community discord server by @flamecoders

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Docs, Design Systems, ...

[WIP]

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Architecture

[more details later]

archi/v1 is as follows :

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Credits

• Demo design systems built using Figma renders / UI kits from:
  • blocks.pm by Hexa Plugin (see cofounder/api/system/presets)
  • google material
  • figma core
  • shadcn
• Dashboard node-based ui powered by react flow