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Joshua Ma
Airplane Autopilot — Rapidly build internal tools with an AI coding assistant
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Autopilot is a context-aware AI coding assistant designed to help you rapidly build internal tools. Use Autopilot to build tasks, complex workflows and custom UIs from scratch using intelligent code suggestions.
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Joshua Ma
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Hi Product Hunt! I’m one of the founders at Airplane - we provide a platform for builders to quickly and reliably build internal UIs and workflow automation. Today, we’re opening Airplane Autopilot to the public - it’s our most exciting milestone yet, and I believe it will be the starting point for a new way of building software tooling. Internal tools start simple - and that’s great. You want a table, maybe a form, and some backend logic that runs to read and write data. So you tend to see low-code/no-code tools address this in a specialized manner. However, these tools don’t scale well over time, and you end up hitting a wall when you need to test and version your tools, layer in role-based permissions, or deploy to complex architectures. Airplane takes a code-first approach, which serves this later scenario better, and has—in the past—traded off in initial simplicity. Autopilot changes the math here, because you can now create these code-first tools without writing any code! You can simply ask it to create an Airplane task, create an Airplane view hooked up to said task, add a heading, and deploy - without writing a single line of code yourself. But since it’s code, you can always inspect what Autopilot produces, fix any mistakes, and iterate on it. We’re starting with a chat assistant, and we envision users using Autopilot in a very collaborative fashion. But really we see this as an initial step towards building the underlying AI muscle that will manifest in more places in the future. You’ll eventually be able to go from blank canvas to user dashboard by just asking for it, in quite literally 1/10th of the time it used to take. Autopilot’s gotten a lot better in the last month alone, based on feedback and performance from early testers. We’d love for you to give it a try and we’d love to get your thoughts!
André J
Can I use my own ChatGPT plus key with airplane?
Pietro Lungarini
Congrats on the launch 🎉 This kind of assistant is incredible. Nice idea!
Priya Patel
Maker
@wheresbebo Hi, Pietro - thanks for the support! We're excited to get Autopilot in the hands of more developers and teams and see the impact it will make!
Debarshi Chaudhuri
Awesome job Airplane team!
Joshua Ma
Maker
@debarshi Thanks for the support!
Kento Noguchi
Congrats on the launch! Seems like a great alternative to Retool.
Julianna Lamb
Congrats on the launch!
Joshua Ma
Maker
@jelamb Thanks for the support Julianna!
Besart
Congrats Airplane team!!!
Joshua Ma
Maker
@besart_copa Thanks for the support!
Coyne Lloyd
This looks really cool! Two questions: -why did you start with chat -where is this headed from here?
Joshua Ma
Maker
@coyne_lloyd1 Chat's the most universal interface, even if it's not the "best"! We figured we'd start with chat so that users have a "home" where they can work with AI, and that chat connects to various places in the product. Eventually we'll add more integration points that are more contextual for users, both in obvious ways (inline Autopilot chat) and subtle (auto-suggested templates, or customized templates to fit your data).
Zain Sheikh
A much needed tool to build rapidly.
Priya Patel
Maker
@zain_sheikh We agree! Thanks for the support and let us know what you think
David Ongchoco
Congrats on the launch! This will be super helpful for non technical folks and can’t wait to see how we can build more internal tools and workflows with these without needing too much engineering lift.
Joshua Ma
Maker
@david_ongchoco1 We're definitely lowering the bar for building able to build! AI makes it easy for anyone to be a builder.
Grant Lee
Congrats on the launch!
Very cool! Excited to use this
John Holliman
congrats to the team! awesome stuff
Joshua Ma
Maker
@john_holliman1 thanks as always John :)
Wesley Tian
Congrats on the launch!!
Joshua Ma
Maker
@wesleyytian Thanks Wesley!
Kyle Harrison
This is awesome!
Joshua Ma
Maker
@kwharrison13 Thanks - we'd love your feedback as you give it a try
Priya Patel
Maker
@kwharrison13 Hey Kyle! Thanks so much for the support - we appreciate it :)
Tarun Paliwal
Congratulations on the launch Airplane autopilot team.
Joshua Ma
Maker
@tarunpaliwal Appreciate the support!
Priya Patel
Maker
@tarunpaliwal Thanks, Tarun! Appreciate your support - let us know what you think!
André J
How is this different than cursor.so ?
Brittany Nickell
congrats, airplane team! we are huge fans over @ dover! i use yall prob 10+ times a day. couldn't imagine handling ops w out it. love to see what yall are continuing to build 🚀
Priya Patel
Maker
@b_nick Hi, Brittany! Thanks so much for the support! We're really excited to see how your team uses Autopilot. Thanks again for the kind words :)
Joshua Ma
Maker
@b_nick It's been a pleasure working with the Dover team for what's now years - thank you for the continued support and feedback
Rana Phool
Congrats for launching. keep it up guys. <3
Joshua Ma
Maker
@rana_phool Appreciate the love!
Kris Braun
Airplane has replaced many other tools and subscriptions for us. For example, instead of paying for a waitlisting or referral management service, we easily built something that fits us better in hour. There is definitely a bit of boilerplate work especially mapping fields, which Autopilot should eliminate. And everything remains version-controlled code that can be customized. Amazing!
Priya Patel
Maker
@krisabraun Hi Kris! So glad to hear about how Airplane has benefited you and your team! Our goal is to make building internal tools an even faster and more productive process, and we believe Autopilot will do just that! Excited to hear your thoughts and feedback on Autopilot!