Your first app with an AI agent
Never coded before? Good. Launchpad is training wheels for Claude Code — we handle the scary parts so you ship something real and learn the actual workflow.
Five steps. About 15 minutes to your first live app.
- 1
Get Claude (your engine)
Subscribe to Claude Pro or Max. This is what actually writes your code — and it bills you directly, so Launchpad never charges you for tokens. No API keys to fumble with.
Get Claude → - 2
Install Claude Code
One command in your terminal. It's the AI coding agent that lives in your project. We'll hold your hand through it — most people are up in 5 minutes.
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code - 3
Launchpad sets up a real project
Click once. You get a live, deployed app with hosting already wired up — no git knowledge, no config files, no blank-repo panic. A real thing on the internet from minute one.
Create your project - 4
Point Claude Code at it
Open the folder, type what you want. Your agent builds it. Launchpad has already written a CLAUDE.md so the agent starts knowing your goal, your plan, and how to run the project.
cd my-app && claude - 5
We keep the agent on track
Beginners let agents wander and lose the thread. Launchpad's course-keeper flags when the build drifts from your goal, remembers your decisions across sessions, and shows you in plain English whether it's working.
See Mission Control
Why not just have the app build it for me?
Because then you'd learn nothing and own nothing. Tools that build it for you make a toy you can't change. Launchpad gets you driving the real agent the pros use — with guardrails — so when the training wheels come off, you actually know how to build.