Airplane Autopilot

Rapidly build internal tools with an AI coding assistant

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Developer Tools

Artificial Intelligence

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!