Reviewers mostly praise CatDoes for speed, ease of use, and surprisingly polished results, especially for non-technical users building mobile apps, web projects, or even simple games. Several say it understands prompts well, feels intuitive, runs work in the background, and produces better UI than competing AI app builders. But the feedback is not uniform: a few users call it unfinished, citing missing buttons, failed integrations, weak bug fixing, and a credit system that can get expensive fast when the coding agent struggles to resolve basic issues.
CatDoes
👋 Hey Product Hunt,
I'm Mahdi, co-founder of CatDoes. Building this with Nafis. Big thanks to @thisiskp_ for hunting us today.
This is our third time here. v3 was "a team of AI agents that builds your mobile app." v4 is where that idea grew up.
The core of v4 is Compose, our new AI agent. It replaces the old specialist-team setup with a single autonomous agent that works more like an engineer you can hand things off to than a copilot that sits next to you while you code.
A few things that are actually different about Compose:
- It runs in the cloud. You describe what you want, close the tab, go to sleep, come back. Compose has been working the whole time.
- It has its own computer. So it can install packages, run scripts, try a build, read the output, and try again if something fails. It doesn't suggest code changes, it writes them, runs them, and fixes them when they break.
- It spawns subagents. If your request has three independent parts, Compose runs them in parallel instead of serially.
- It decides what to do next. Plans the work, writes the code, runs the tests, ships the build, reads the errors, fixes them.
What Compose builds
Mobile apps and websites. You can start from scratch or import a GitHub repo. Paste a URL (Lovable, WordPress, Shopify, whatever) and Compose will turn that website into a mobile app. Fork any of your projects to ship the same product under a different brand. It also monitors your app's errors via CatDoes Watch (Built-in error monitoring) and will fix them when you ask.
Every plan ships with a full backend: CatDoes Cloud. Database, auth, storage, real-time, edge functions. US and EU regions. No separate setup, no extra vendor.
What's new since v3
- Compose Agent: autonomous, cloud-native, has its own computer
- CatDoes Cloud: backend included on every plan
- Websites + custom domains
- Import from GitHub
- Monorepos with a preview size switcher (mobile, desktop, iPad, phone sizes)
- Website to Mobile App convertor
- File Browser (edit your code from the dashboard)
- Multi-page Canvas (see every screen at once)
- CatDoes Watch (built-in error monitoring, dev and prod)
- Env Manager (store secrets the AI can request but never read)
- Fork Projects
- Principal Agent tier, our smartest agent yet
Who it's for
- Founders going from idea to a real app in days
- Designers whose prototypes should actually run
- Small businesses that finally need a mobile and web presence
- Engineers who want to ship 10x faster
- Anyone who's been waiting for tech to catch up with their idea
Product Hunt perks
- 20% off your first paid month with code V4_PH_20, valid this week
- Drop your idea in the comments and I'll reply with how Compose would tackle it. If it's interesting, we'll spin it up and share what Compose built.
Thanks for taking a look. Feedback from people who showed up for v2 and v3 is a big reason this version exists. 🙌
Mahdi and Nafis
Co-founders, CatDoes
Product Hunt
CatDoes
Thank you for the comment @curiouskitty 😻
Batteries-included by default, and exits are there when you want them. CatDoes Cloud (db, auth, storage, realtime, edge functions) ships on every plan and most builders want to ship, not shop for infra. Under the hood we use open-source tech, nothing proprietary. Code export is there whenever you want to own the code and leave, and because the stack is open-source the exported code actually runs elsewhere.
GitHub import works the other way where you can bring any repo in and the agent will work on it. The agent isn't locked to Cloud either; it can wire up Stripe, Clerk, your own Postgres, whatever, by writing against it.
Cloud's EU region is live at data centers in Europe for data residency, and teams and enterprises can run private Cloud deployments.
On secrets and safety: our Env Manager encrypts everything, the agent only ever sees which keys exist, never the values. For sensitive inputs, there's a secure input field where values are encrypted on entry and the agent just knows a value is provided and proceeds. Each project runs on its own isolated cloud machine, so no cross-contamination between builds.
Also, CatDoes Watch monitors prod and hands errors back to the agent when you want them fixed.
Is it good enough to deploy to public for non software engineer? Or is it only for vibe coding?
CatDoes
it is @linkun_dong !
please give it a try and let me know how it goes!
CatDoes
@linkun_dong It's made for non-technical people. We have business owners, product managers, and designers who use CatDoes to build apps and websites. Give it a try and let me know if you need any help.
does it support like all Apple platforms?
CatDoes
yes @zabbar , it supports both iPhone and iPad apps.
And the best part is, you don't even need a mac or Xcode to publish your app on the app store.
CatDoes
Thank you for your comment @sana_doushabchi , glad that you found CatDoes useful, would love to know what you have built! 🫡
CatDoes
@sana_doushabchi This is so cool, Thank youu🚀🫶🏻
Starnus
I created my habit tracker app with catdoes, and I love it! Congrats Guys.
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@ayda_golahmadi Glad you loved it, Thank you Ayda 🚀🫶🏻
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Let's gooo @ayda_golahmadi 🚀
I am seriously impressed.
I had a few design ideas for my business and they were laying down in my Figma untested. I used Catdoes v4 and tada 🪄. Kudos team!!!
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@eemis Love to hear this! let's goooo
CatDoes
Thank you for your comment @eemis glad you found CatDoes useful! 🙌