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.
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!
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 🚀
Huge ups to the Airplane team! What was finetuning like for the model, to get it to understand the Airplane language. Also, should I just get in there and edit the code if the Autopilot is wrong?
@shreypjain We haven't actually finetuned yet - it's surprising how much better we were able to get things with just better context / RAG! A lot of the work is honestly around making our docs better and more indexable.
And yes, my favorite part about Autopilot is that it's just doing the same thing you could do yourself, but faster. So there's a collaboration aspect where you can edit and tweak what Autopilot does.
Congrats on the launch! I haven't tested it yet, but I signed up and I'm really impressed with the UX. Quick question, how do we apply the discount code? At checkout?
@duniachap Hi, Dunia - thanks for taking a look and excited to hear your thoughts and feedback once you check it out! Yes that's correct, you can enter the code at checkout after selecting a plan.
Here's out pricing page for reference: https://www.airplane.dev/pricing
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!
@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!
hey @george_j_burns ! Have you ever used Airplane Autopilot? I'm just curious if you have any personal experience, howe much time it can save up by relying on a tool like this? Thanks in advance!
Congratulations on launching Airplane Autopilot!
The whole idea of building internal UIs and workflow automation rapidly and reliably is game-changing.
I'm particularly interested in the collaborative aspect of the chat assistant. Is there any specific way you plan to facilitate this user collaboration?
Keep soaring!
@e__m_c_2 That's a really interesting idea! I see user <> AI as the first "collaboration" - the AI is always available. :) But yes we'd like to eventually have that as shared state, so multiple users can be in the same studio session and chatting with each other / Autopilot!
@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!
@joshuama A big congratulations on the launch of Airplane. Love the sleek interface and speed with which it executes writing the program. From just the short video you posted I see this being a potent tool in any developer's arsenal. Best, @david_mcanulty
@joshuama I agree with you 100%. Not a chance businesses turn down resources that increase efficiency and productivity 100X while exponentially lowering risk by mitigating human error.
@jeorge28 Yes and no. We're using OpenAI models, so that's all handled over API, but we've built our own internal framework for chaining model calls, streaming outputs, etc.
@james_jaden Thanks for the support, James! We are excited to see this impact too - Autopilot will make it much easier to develop internal tools as quickly as possible. Let us know what you think!
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