Vibecode Unicorn Platform
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You are building a lean indie version of Unicorn Platform. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Unicorn Platform indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Unicorn Platform workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience - large template marketplace - managed hosting and CDN - advanced CMS - commerce and agency workflows If those capabilities are essential, use Webstudio instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Unicorn Platform in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and static export; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Provide a section library for hero, proof, features, pricing, FAQ, and footer blocks. Use a constrained design-token system rather than arbitrary CSS controls. Allow inline text editing and local image upload with responsive optimization. Preview desktop, tablet, and mobile widths and surface overflow errors. Persist projects in SQLite and support a portable JSON export. Generate a clean static Next.js output and document deployment to one target. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a plugin marketplace. Deliberately leave out multi-tenant managed hosting. Deliberately leave out advanced ecommerce, memberships, and agency billing. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - domain and deploy target - local images - optional form-email API key ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Unicorn Platform. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Unicorn Platform indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Unicorn Platform workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience - large template marketplace - managed hosting and CDN - advanced CMS - commerce and agency workflows If those capabilities are essential, use Webstudio instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Unicorn Platform in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and static export; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Provide a section library for hero, proof, features, pricing, FAQ, and footer blocks. Use a constrained design-token system rather than arbitrary CSS controls. Allow inline text editing and local image upload with responsive optimization. Preview desktop, tablet, and mobile widths and surface overflow errors. Persist projects in SQLite and support a portable JSON export. Generate a clean static Next.js output and document deployment to one target. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a plugin marketplace. Deliberately leave out multi-tenant managed hosting. Deliberately leave out advanced ecommerce, memberships, and agency billing. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - domain and deploy target - local images - optional form-email API key ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Unicorn Platform. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Unicorn Platform product brief ## Problem The core loop is small enough for a capable coding agent to produce a useful local version in one sitting. For Unicorn Platform, assemble a startup landing page from constrained components and export static code. The hard boundary is template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and ai copy convenience, plus editor polish, hosting, templates, and ecosystem. ## Product outcome Assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - domain and deploy target - local images - optional form-email API key ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience - large template marketplace - managed hosting and CDN - advanced CMS - commerce and agency workflows ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Unicorn Platform in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and static export; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Provide a section library for hero, proof, features, pricing, FAQ, and footer blocks. Use a constrained design-token system rather than arbitrary CSS controls. Allow inline text editing and local image upload with responsive optimization. Preview desktop, tablet, and mobile widths and surface overflow errors. Persist projects in SQLite and support a portable JSON export. Generate a clean static Next.js output and document deployment to one target. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a plugin marketplace. Deliberately leave out multi-tenant managed hosting. Deliberately leave out advanced ecommerce, memberships, and agency billing. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Unicorn Platform capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Unicorn Platform indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Unicorn Platform workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience - large template marketplace - managed hosting and CDN - advanced CMS - commerce and agency workflows If those capabilities are essential, use Webstudio instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for Unicorn Platform in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and static export; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Provide a section library for hero, proof, features, pricing, FAQ, and footer blocks. Use a constrained design-token system rather than arbitrary CSS controls. Allow inline text editing and local image upload with responsive optimization. Preview desktop, tablet, and mobile widths and surface overflow errors. Persist projects in SQLite and support a portable JSON export. Generate a clean static Next.js output and document deployment to one target. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a plugin marketplace. Deliberately leave out multi-tenant managed hosting. Deliberately leave out advanced ecommerce, memberships, and agency billing. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - domain and deploy target - local images - optional form-email API key ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Unicorn Platform product brief ## Problem The core loop is small enough for a capable coding agent to produce a useful local version in one sitting. For Unicorn Platform, assemble a startup landing page from constrained components and export static code. The hard boundary is template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and ai copy convenience, plus editor polish, hosting, templates, and ecosystem. ## Product outcome Assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - domain and deploy target - local images - optional form-email API key ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience - large template marketplace - managed hosting and CDN - advanced CMS - commerce and agency workflows ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for Unicorn Platform in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and static export; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: assemble a startup landing page from constrained components, edit copy and media, preview breakpoints, and export static code or publish to a user-owned target. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Provide a section library for hero, proof, features, pricing, FAQ, and footer blocks. Use a constrained design-token system rather than arbitrary CSS controls. Allow inline text editing and local image upload with responsive optimization. Preview desktop, tablet, and mobile widths and surface overflow errors. Persist projects in SQLite and support a portable JSON export. Generate a clean static Next.js output and document deployment to one target. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out a plugin marketplace. Deliberately leave out multi-tenant managed hosting. Deliberately leave out advanced ecommerce, memberships, and agency billing. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Unicorn Platform capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for Unicorn Platform because the page renderer is reproducible, but customers pay to avoid becoming their own hosting and browser-compatibility team. The recurring cost buys responsive rendering, forms, domains, certificates, deploys, backups, template maintenance, and browser regressions, not just the visible interface.
xtemplate polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience
xlarge template marketplace
xmanaged hosting and CDN
xadvanced CMS
xcommerce and agency workflows
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Unicorn Platform pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| lurker | $0/workspace | $0/workspace | 0 published websites; up to 10 pages and 10 blog posts in the builder; 10 AI uses; no custom domain, code export or collaborators |
| maker | $14/workspace | $9/workspace | 1 published website; unlimited pages; 10 blog posts; custom domain and code export; 0 collaborators; Unicorn branding remains |
| startup | $49/workspace | $29/workspace | 1 published website; unlimited pages and blog posts; 1 collaborator; branding removal; custom domain and code export |
| business | $69/workspace | $49/workspace | 3 published websites; unlimited pages, blog posts and collaborators; branding removal and code export |
| freelancer | $99/workspace | $79/workspace | 8 published websites; unlimited pages, blog posts and collaborators; branding removal and code export |
| agency | $179/workspace | $139/workspace | 20 published websites; unlimited pages, blog posts and collaborators; branding removal and code export |
| major | $350/workspace | $250/workspace | 100 published websites; unlimited pages, blog posts and collaborators; branding removal and code export |
free tier10 pages, 10 blog posts and 10 AI uses, but 0 published websites; no custom domain, export, collaborators or branding removal
billingmonthly + annual (live table discounts vary by tier, roughly 29% to 40%); 30-day money-back guarantee on paid plans
hidden costsCustom domains are bought separately; Stripe/payment-processing charges and fees from connected third-party services are not included
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Vibecode Unicorn Platform
Yes. A competent AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can build a usable personal Unicorn Platform replacement in one session with the prompt on this page. It runs on your own machine or server with no subscription.
How much does Unicorn Platform cost?
Unicorn Platform costs about $14/month (Maker, checked 2026-08-14), which is $168 per year. That's what you save by replacing it with one prompt.
What do I lose by replacing Unicorn Platform?
Honestly: template polish, hosted publishing, forms, and AI copy convenience; large template marketplace; managed hosting and CDN; advanced CMS; commerce and agency workflows. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Unicorn Platform?
Yes: Publii (A desktop block editor that exports a static site; startup-specific components are not the main attraction.) Plasmic (Reusable components, hosting and code deployment on a free plan; much less constrained than requested.) Silex (Constrained visual building with plain-HTML export; less startup polish, no hostage situation.) All 4 curated free alternatives are at vibecodeit.com/unicorn-platform/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.