#Getting Started
CoDuck is an AI-powered platform where you describe what you want to build in plain English and get a live, deployed full-stack app. Every project comes with hosting, a dedicated Postgres database, custom domains, email sending, Stripe payments, file storage, and automatic backups — all configured for you.
#Start a project
- Sign up at coduck.ai/signup (or sign in at coduck.ai/login).
- On the home page, you'll see a prompt textarea with a rotating placeholder showing examples like "Generate an online store for selling handmade products."
- Type what you want to build and hit enter.
CoDuck's AI scaffolds the codebase, generates the UI and backend, and deploys it. The project opens at https://app.coduck.ai/project/<projectId> with a chat-based editor where you can keep iterating.
#What you can build
One project gives you one container, one Postgres database, and one .coduck.app subdomain. From there:
| Capability | What you get | Docs |
|---|---|---|
| Bring your own code | Import an existing Next.js, React, or Node project | /docs/projects/create-existing |
| Deploying | Zero-downtime redeploys with auto SSL | /docs/projects/deploy |
| Custom domains | Point your own domain with one-step DNS verification | /docs/domains/custom-domains |
| Database | A dedicated Postgres database per project | /docs/database/overview |
| Sending email | Transactional email from your own verified domain | /docs/email/sending |
| Stripe payments | Stripe Connect — payouts go directly to your account | /docs/payments/stripe-connect |
#Manage your project
Open https://app.coduck.ai/project/<id> and you'll see three things side by side: the chat, the code editor, and the Cloud panel.
The Cloud panel has the following tabs:
| Tab | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Settings | Project name, framework, general config |
| Hosting | Sub-tabs: Domains, Env, Deploys, API Key |
| Analytics | Built-in traffic and event analytics |
| Data | Your project's Postgres database — schema, rows, queries |
| Logs | Live deploy and runtime logs |
| Forms | Form submissions captured from your site |
| Transactional email, verified domains, send history | |
| Payments | Stripe Connect status and payouts |
| Activity | Audit trail of changes to the project |
To make changes, either edit through the chat (ask the AI to add a feature, change a layout, wire up a new endpoint) or use the Cloud panel for infrastructure-level controls.
#For developers and AI agents
CoDuck also ships a CLI (@coduckai/cli) for bringing existing code into the platform, scripting deploys, and letting AI assistants like Claude Code drive CoDuck end-to-end. See /docs/cli/install to get set up.
#For AI agents reading these docs
If you're an AI assistant working with CoDuck on a user's behalf, fetch one of these at session start for full fluency across every feature:
- /llms.txt — index of every doc with one-line summaries
- /llms-full.txt — every doc concatenated into a single file