Build your own AI app builder for one niche with a free, open-source stack
A Lovable-style tool where a business types what it needs and gets a working app, with templates made for one industry.
Base44 was six months old when Wix bought it for $80 million, and Lovable is valued at $13.3 billion.
The stack
- bolt.diy ↗Turns a prompt into a full working appMIT
- Dyad ↗A free, local Lovable alternative to fork fromApache 2.0
- OpenHands ↗An AI coding agent that writes and fixes the codeMIT
How to build it
- 1Fork bolt.diy or Dyad as the base of the builder.
- 2Pick one niche and add templates for the apps it needs most.
- 3Let OpenHands fix errors so users never see a broken build.
- 4Host every app it makes on a subdomain with one click.
- 5Charge every business monthly.
500 businesses at $29 a month is $14,500 a month.
- Restaurants
- Clinics
- Realtors
- Coaches
- Event planners
- AI image generator API →
- Qwen-Imagefree
- Claudepaid
- A rented cloud GPUpaid
- Private ChatGPT for companies →
- LibreChatfree
- Claudepaid
- MCP connectorsfree
- AI employee for one niche →
- Claudepaid
- OpenClawfree
- Lightpandafree
Common
questions.
Straight answers. If yours isn't here, ask on a 20-minute call.
What is this list?+
Every week our reels break down an AI product a real company is making money with, and the free, open-source stack you could build your own version on. This page keeps all of them in one place, newest first, with the tools, the licences, the money maths and the reel.
Is the stack really free?+
The software is. Every tool listed is open source or fair-code, and the licence is shown next to it so you can check commercial use. You still pay for hosting, GPUs and the AI model's API, which for most of these products is a few hundred dollars a month at launch.
Which licences allow commercial use?+
MIT and Apache 2.0 allow commercial use with attribution. AGPL-3.0 does too, but if you change the code and offer it as a service you must publish your changes. Fair-code licences such as n8n's Sustainable Use License allow internal and client use but restrict reselling the tool itself, so read them before you build on them.
Can Axionry build one of these for me?+
Yes. We build AI products on open-source stacks with $0 upfront: each checkpoint is invoiced only after you have seen it working. Book a 20-minute call and bring the niche you want to sell to.
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