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Almanac Seed
Ship the spec, not the code. An AI builds the app.
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Ship the spec, not the code. An AI builds the app.
11 followers
Almanac Seed ships no code — just a spec. One markdown file describes a Figma-style design-review app: pin comments on live HTML designs, threads, presence, an API lane for AI reviewers. Paste SEED.md into your coding agent and it builds the whole app from scratch, verifies every feature works, and deploys YOUR own instance on your accounts. Not a template — intent. Open source, on the open SEED format. When code is cheap, the spec is the asset.
ShellMate
Hey PH 👋 Daniel here.
There's no application code in this repo. It's one markdown file — a spec for a design-review app.
You paste that file into your coding agent and it builds the whole app from it: Figma-style pin comments on rendered HTML designs, threads, reactions, live presence, and an API so AI reviewers can comment alongside you. It deploys to your own accounts, with your own keys. You end up with your own live instance, not ours.
It's not a template or a boilerplate. There's nothing to fork. The agent builds from the spec and adapts to whatever machine it's running on.
My bet is that when code is cheap to generate, the spec becomes the asset. The format underneath (SEED) is plain open markdown — no runtime, no SDK, nobody owns it. And your agent shows you every command before it runs anything.
Want to try it? Grab SEED.md from github.com/plow-pbc/almanac-seed, paste it into your coding agent — Claude Code, Codex, whatever you use — and tell it to hydrate the seed: build the app it specifies. Then tell me where it breaks. That's how the spec gets better. And if you write a seed of your own, I want to see it.
— Daniel