We're designing Nowa inside Nowa itself. This made us ship things 10x faster. Here's how: Nowa can import an existing #Flutter project and render it with full visual editing capabilities, thanks to a custom Flutter interpreter we've been building since 2021. Internally, we've been designing Nowa inside Nowa without Figma for a while now. Recently, a few teams pushed us to make this use case public. It works like this: we split Nowa's source code into UI and logic layers, each living in its own package. This lets designers and developers work in parallel without stepping on each other's toes. So designers simply import the UI package of the Nowa repo into Nowa itself. They build full designs and prototypes using AI and full visual editing, and share the prototypes with the team and some customers for feedback. These prototypes match how the final feature will look and feel, because they're real Flutter UI prototypes, not just mockups. When we agree on the winning prototype, designers keep refining the details and improving the user experience, then commit the changes directly to the repo. At the same time, developers build the logic and data in the logic package, with their own IDE and AI agents, without waiting for the UI. The time and effort this saves is incredible: no UI-to-code translation, no design reviews, no UI tickets between designers and developers, and no rebuilding existing design mocks. On top of that, we ship things that look and feel better than before, just by giving our designers full ownership of the UI/UX. They design fast with AI, test how each UI component looks and behaves in different states and scenarios, build animations, refine the full experience, and get accurate feedback on their prototypes. We believe this is how great products should be built within teams. A few Fortune 500 companies are already using Nowa for this exact use case. If you want to try it out with your own team, let us know at [email protected].

Great apps don't start with features. They start with design. Meet the Design agent at Nowa 🎨 It's hard to get good results when you start an app working on features and design together. You get distracted, get mediocre designs from a generic AI agent, and design changes are way more expensive to do later. The Design agent puts your building flow on the right path, so you can build great apps in record time. You can now create more unique and compelling designs, experiment with different directions early on before committing, and keep iterating with AI and visual editing until the design looks and feels right. Watch how it was used to build a great design for a coffee ordering and loyalty app 👇

Two weeks ago we switched the model behind Nowa from Gemini 3.5 Flash to 3.6 Flash. We didn't announce it. But the feedback started coming in anyway. The agent is faster (around 2x from what we measured), fixes complex bugs it used to get stuck on, and the UI and animations it generates just look better. The funny part: the new model is also cheaper. It uses ~17% fewer tokens for the same work, so a typical task costs about a third less now. We're passing that to our users. Also, we kept seeing people build more advanced apps on Nowa than we did see before, and hence they needed more AI usage, so we doubled the daily AI limits on the free and Launch plans, and tripled for Scale with the same prices. Better model + fewer tokens per task + higher limits = you can build a lot more per day than you could a month ago. So if you haven't tried Nowa in the past 10 days, now is a really good time. Also Nowa is fully free this weekend, so go ahead and give it a try! More details on our blog on nowa. dev / blog

Meet Vardr, one of the 3 winners of Nowa's Free Weekend Hackathon 🏆 Scott Howard (find him on X: @jagnoirtech) built this app during Nowa's 48-hour Free Weekend Competition. Here's what it does: it listens for a vocal trigger phrase and switches into Guardian Mode. From there, one spoken phrase can call the police, share your live location with a loved one, text for help, or set off an alarm. Imagine walking home late at night. Someone steps out of an alley. You don't have to unlock your phone. You don't have to dial. You just speak, and help is already on the way. The app uses voice recognition, background listening and emergency automation. Huge congratulations to Scott 👏 He's taking home $500 worth of AI credits and hands-on support from our team to scale his app into something big! If you had 48 hours and zero limits, what would YOU build? Watch his 2-minute demo video below. #BuildWithNowa #AppDevelopment #Vibecoding #ai

Nowa is totally FREE this weekend, 20–21 June! Block out the weekend, grab yourself a strong coffee, and decide what amazing app you're going to build! We want everyone to experience how fast and easy it is to build professional apps with the new verson of Nowa, so for 48 hours straight, it's open to all completely free. You'll get unlimited AI credits to build with, and you can even publish your app to the App Store, Play Store, and Web, all totally free. On top of that, the 3 best apps each win 1,000 credits to keep improving them after the weekend, plus a feature on our socials. And every participant gets 30 free credits to keep building once it's over. We'll be online all weekend too on the built-in chat support, ready to answer your questions and help out. Sign up below to take part and build something great: forms.gle/4UrZmcGHpc5eMwBy5 Goodluck to all builders! #AI #VibeCoding #Free #AppBuilding #Flutter

Congrats @GugaMSantos on building another great app! Go try his app: apps.apple.com/pt/app/quadri…

Our best support, now built right into Nowa! We want you fully focused on building something great, not chasing down support to get help or report an issue. That's why we've brought our world-class support directly into Nowa. No more emails, no more wondering where your issue stands. Just open the chat and ask us anything, anytime. You can also report an issue and attach a project snapshot in one click, so we have everything we need to investigate. You can even track the status of your tickets, so you're always in the loop on what's happening behind the scenes. And you'll hear back from us quickly, right in the chat, without ever leaving your project. We're in your corner, cheering you on as you build the next big thing! #AppDevelopment #VibeCoding #AI #MobileDevelopment

How does AI in Nowa run so much faster than Claude, Replit, Lovable, and others? It comes down to one architectural difference in how the AI deals with your project inside those platforms. While all other tools deal with your project as a bunch of text files holding code, Nowa does it completely differently. It loads your entire project into memory upfront as a connected AST graph. AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree. It's the structure your code actually has underneath the text, the same thing compilers build when they translate your code to run your app. This makes Nowa see your project as a Map that includes every component, function, and dependency, and how they all connected together. Like the difference between reading a recipe word by word vs. actually understanding how the dish comes together. Because the project sits in memory, the AI runs way faster. But there's more to it: - AI in Nowa is much better at extracting context. The in-memory graph lets it pull exactly what your prompt needs, nothing missed, nothing wasted. That makes it efficient and much better at handling complex, large tasks. - Nowa analyzes AI-generated code in real time against strict rules and fixes issues before the code even touches your project. So things stay consistent and scalable as the project grows. - The AI only writes parts of the code. Nowa auto-generates the rest, like structure and boilerplate. So prompts are not just more efficient but safer too! since key decisions like structure are made by the platform not the AI. So while other tools rely entirely on the AI to work with your project, Nowa does a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes to make AI usage faster, better, and most importantly safer for production or big projects. That's why plenty of teams choose Nowa to build their production apps, such as Klubbrabatten that built an app for more than 150K customers in Sweden using Nowa And as always, happy building all! 🛠️ #DevTools #VibeCoding #ai #MobileDevelopment #Flutter #lowcode

Most vibe coding tools are great for prototypes. Nowa is built for production apps. With Nowa, you can build real cross-platform apps using AI + full visual editing side by side, while getting clean, scalable Flutter code out of the box. Why it’s different: • AI and visual building are fully integrated, so you can use either one or mix both freely • You can visually understand your app’s UI and logic, so it never feels like a black box • Instantly preview and test your app inside Nowa without long build waits • Run your app locally on simulators or physical devices with fast sync • Build once and deploy the same project to Web, iOS, Android, and Desktop • Use the desktop app and local projects for more speed, control, and flexibility • AI-generated code is analyzed and structured in real time to keep your codebase clean and scalable as it grows So instead of ending up with a black-box prototype, you get a production-ready app you can actually understand, control, and keep building on. Try it free: nowa.dev

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