Piye is live on Mac and Linux. One project. Build it visually, or write the code.
After more than a year of building, Piye is live on Mac and Linux.
Piye is one desktop app where you build software visually or write the code, on the same project. This post is about the code side, because that's where most of the hard work went.
AI agents read your files, but they can't see what's actually happening: the error in the terminal, the breakpoint you hit, the crash on the phone simulator, the dev server that died. So they guess, explore the project again and again, and burn tokens doing it.
Piye Code is a full code editor, built from scratch rather than forked from another editor. Its own tools report to the agent:
Because the agent gets these reports directly, it spends less time searching and more time fixing the real problem. In one of our tests, it found the two causes of a performance bug in Piye's own code in 12 minutes, for about €2 of AI.
The agent never acts behind your back: commits, pushes and deploys each need your explicit approval.
On Piye's own credits, code work is charged at the AI's cost, so you're not paying a markup to write code.
A separate window for running many agents on many projects at once, showing which are running, done or waiting on you.
Founders can describe an app in Piye Visual and get a real website or a native iPhone, iPad and Android app, see it on real simulators, and publish to the web, the App Store and Google Play.
When they need a developer, Handoff creates a private GitHub repo and branch and writes a HANDOFF.md briefing: what's built, what's missing, which keys are needed. You open it in Piye, or in any editor you like. The project is a normal folder on your computer, with no lock-in.
Free on Mac and Linux, with 750 credits to start (no card): piye.dev I'd really like honest feedback from developers: what's confusing, what breaks, what you'd need before using it every day.