What it is · What it does

Build software
without building alone.

Program Podz is a clubhouse where people team up with AI to build real software — live, together, in a room called a Pod. There's a guide who plans the work, a community to build in front of, and an honest money layer when real dollars are involved.

The one-sentence version: whether you've never written a line of code or you ship for a living, you open a Pod, tell it what you want, and build it with a smart AI crew — with people around you the whole way.
◆ For everyone

If you've never coded

You have an idea. You don't want to learn a programming language to make it real. Here's everything Podz does for you.

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Just describe your ideaTalk to Maestro in plain English — "I want an app that does X" — and it turns your words into a real, approvable plan.
Free Build — your callPrefer to just start building? Skip planning and jump straight in. We give one friendly nudge to add a Living Plan for best results, then get out of your way — guide, never gate.
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Choose your AI helperPick who helps you — Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini — right from a simple dropdown. No settings to figure out; every answer shows who wrote it.
You approve, it buildsNothing happens without your yes. Every step is a simple decision you tap through — no jargon.
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Undo anythingSave-points let you roll back to before any change. You can't break it permanently.
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Never build aloneSee who else is around, watch live builds, and pull real people in when you're stuck.
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Bug BenchStuck on a bug? Post your snippet and get real help — and any secrets in it are auto-scrubbed before anyone sees it.
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Learn by playingA free daily code game teaches you one small thing a day — and the answer is the lesson.
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One-click publishWhen it's done, put it on the internet with a single click — a real, live web address.
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It's honest with youPodz tells you the plain truth about what's finished and what isn't — it never fakes "done."
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Watch from your phoneCheck in and approve steps from anywhere.
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Real humans on tapHand a finished project to a vetted engineer for a real quality check — safely, through the platform.
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Care after launchOptional upkeep keeps your finished project healthy, backed-up, and patched — Basic $7/mo or Plus $15/mo, and it's included free with a subscription (Starter→Basic, Pro/Studio→Plus).
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Built to respect the rulesEvery project is planned to be accessible and to respect privacy law from day one — and Podz is honest: it never claims you're "compliant," it stays cautious and always tells you to have a real lawyer check before you launch.
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Your Daily Top 5 & friendsA fresh, curated tech Top 5 on your desk each morning you can like, dislike & talk about — plus a friends-only profile with a private wall and direct messages. Your friends see your Pods by name only, never inside.
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Build together, face to faceYour Pod has a video table — up to 8 people can turn on camera & mic (mute anytime), drop in files, and chat as a group, all on one screen. One flip turns it off when it's just you.
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Let it help on your own computer — only if you wantTurn it on and Maestro can work right on your machine — but only inside one folder you pick and only after you tap "yes" on each step. Shut it off in one click, and you can see everything it did. It stays off until you choose to turn it on. There's even a private Computer Podz — a separate space for your own-computer tasks, with a running list of chats (one per idea) and a live feed of what Maestro's doing. Included with any paid plan, or $10/mo on Free (free for beta).
◆ For programmers

If you ship for a living

You already know how to build. Podz is force-multiplication — bring your own AI, your own repo, and a live crew. Here's everything it does for you.

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Bring your own AIConnect Claude, Codex, Gemini & more by terminal login or API key — identical either way, running on your subscription. Any API-key AI works — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, DeepSeek, Cohere, Grok, Perplexity, local/Ollama, or your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint — one router, no markup, same guardrails on every feature.
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A real 3-pane cockpitFiles │ Terminal/Code │ Live/Web, with a sandbox-hardened engine that only marks "success" on real evidence.
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Live co-build roomsSolo ⇄ Crew toggle: shared board, approvals, live activity feed, presence, and record/rewind of the whole session.
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Run everything through GitLink a repo and every build/deploy auto-commits atomically. Your workflow, automated.
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Deploy anywhere1-click to Netlify/Vercel/Cloudflare/Render, plus guided AWS/Azure/GCP; redeploys update the same site.
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Built-to-Last checksHonest production-readiness scoring — unknowns stay grey, never faked green — with a fix-it path for each finding.
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Never get stuckHit a rate limit and it auto-relays down a ladder of backups (local floor) then climbs back. No dead ends.
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Take over any projectImport an existing zip or repo (secrets redacted on intake), get an AI health-read, re-plan, and finish it like a normal Pod.
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Scale-ready foundationsRead/write DB split, timeouts + retries + circuit breaker, throttling, caching, graceful degrade — built in.
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An honest money layerHire, get hired, escrow & payouts that reconcile to the cent — every dollar traceable in your Economicz cockpit.
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Teach & earnRun live classroom sessions with isolated student terminals, auto-replays & certificates; post lessons to the Board.
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Pick your AI & model, liveChoose Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and the exact model (Opus 4.8, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Fable 5, Haiku 4.5…) between prompts — it runs on your own subscription and every reply shows which AI + model answered.
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Compliance-by-default planningEvery Pod is planned for accessibility (ADA / WCAG 2.2 AA) and privacy law (EU GDPR + US CCPA/CPRA) — consent, export, delete, retention. Honest by design: grey-until-human-confirmed, never guaranteed, always points to counsel; one-click export/delete of your data.
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A real social layerA curated Daily Top 5 (sealed & published 6 AM ET) with Reddit-style voting, threaded comments & a moderation queue, plus friends-only Profile Podz (name-only Pod shelf, wall, friend graph) and private 1:1 DMs — secrets redacted, rate-limited, noindex.
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Wired-up Podz-v2 cockpitWhole-Pod group chat + 1:1 DMs, secure per-Pod file uploads (10 MB cap, executables blocked, stored off the web root), Maestro chat that saves & replays, and the 8-seat Knerds video table on real peer-to-peer WebRTC (STUN) with mute & camera toggles.
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Maestro orchestration + the Podz BridgeMaestro routes each task (plan · build · UI · verify) to the best specialist and verifies before it ships; auto-continue advances a plan but always pauses at your gate. Opt-in Bridge to your own box: the cloud only proposes, a local companion executes inside one granted folder after per-action approval, over a hashed, revocable token with a kill switch, rate limiting & a full audit trail. Full-Parity adds a typed Command Palette (shell/build/git/edit…) + Connectors (deploy · scaffold · email · packages · search · web-fetch) and Run Mode (approve a whole sprint at once) — premium, free for beta, off by default. A dedicated Computer Podz cockpit gives on-machine work its own space: containerized logged chats + a live activity feed, gated behind any paid plan or a $10/mo add-on. And Visual QA — "Check my build" (open-source Playwright) lets Maestro open your running app, screenshot it desktop + mobile, and return an honest vision verdict — never a fake pass.
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Ship to the Stores — the app-store conciergeGuided the whole way: pick the store, connect your developer account (vaulted, never shown again), prepare a real native binary, build the listing, pre-flight fees & rules, then submit & track. Guided-manual by default — we automate your side; Apple & Google still run their own review. Honest boundaries baked in: Apple $99/yr, Google $25, Google's 20-tester/14-day rule surfaced up front — never a fake binary, never a fake submission.
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Economicz — your money in one placeA per-user cockpit one tab right of Pricing: earnings by source, a full transaction ledger (CSV export), engagements & agreed terms with live escrow, payouts (Stripe Connect), disputes, and year-end 1099 tax. Terms are negotiated in your Pod/Crew room (propose → counter → accept) and Economicz reflects the agreed result. Honest & safe: money conserved to the cent, strict per-user isolation, never a fake balance or payout.

Simple plans for both sides

Start free and watch. Pay only when you're ready to build. Annual = 2 months free.

Free

$0

Watch live builds, browse the community, tinker in 1 practice Pod with your own AI keys.

Starter

$19/mo

3 Pods, the Maestro guide, 1-click publish, save-points, mobile companion.

Pro

$49/mo

Unlimited Pods, the big clouds, Game Mode, Launch Readiness.

Studio

$149/mo

5 seats, live team rooms, your own server (Home Podz), lower hiring fees.

No commitment? One-off Pods from $12 · one-time Launch Passes from $15 · optional Care from $7/mo.

Start free — build your first Pod →