Show HN: Teda.dev – AI app builder that beats Lovable

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7 months ago

Hey everyone, I've been working on teda.dev for the past month. And to be honest, I was tired of seeing tools that promise to “build production apps” but end up producing the same AI-like sites you can spot a mile away.

There are several platforms out there that keep trying to position themselves as replacements for developers, but the apps they make are nowhere near production quality. They’re bloated, clunky, and always tied to their own systems and external dependencies.

With Teda, I'm not pretending to replace developers. If you were going to build the next Facebook, you'd hire a team of engineers. If you were building a production SaaS focused on revenue, you'd put AI coding tools like Cursor or Copilot in the hands of engineers. You won't be thinking of "vibe coding platforms" for that.

Teda focuses on what people who use these platforms actually want: simple, working apps that solve everyday problems. You describe what you want, and Teda builds it in a few minutes.

And I have to say this directly - Teda apps UI and UX are far better than anything you’ll get from Lovable, Bolt, or V0. Not just slightly better, but by a wide margin.

You can confirm it yourself: just use the same prompt across all of them and look at the results.

To be clear, Teda is not for building complex production SaaS or live dashboards that need a server. The other platforms that claim to do this don't do it well anyway.

Teda is for focused tools that run entirely in the browser.

No frameworks, no servers or build step. Just clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that you can run anywhere and own completely.

This is something that means a lot to me and I've been using Teda a lot myself. The ability to quickly prototype apps and build tools for day-to-day issues I face has been a dream come true.

An example from just yesterday, I wanted to download an Instagram video and the apps that offer this are filled with ads and so many clickbaits, so I just asked Teda to build it and I had my working app in a few minutes: https://ebenezerdon.github.io/reelfetch-instagram-video-down...

This is just one small example out of the numerous apps I've built with Teda. From things like the meal planner we now use at home, to an application I use to doodle, make stickers, convert images or generate handwriting practice sheets for my daughter.

You'll find some examples on https://teda.dev and on my GitHub: https://github.com/ebenezerdon

If you’ve ever wanted to turn your idea into a working app without the noise, try Teda. You’ll see what I mean.