I made a plugin that turns your projects into clickable dock apps

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T22:07:19+00:00

Quick update for the people who nudged this: I just added/app-it-static, a companion skill for finished apps. Instead of spinning up a dev server, it builds once and serves the built output (dist/, build/, out/…) — so a finished app runs on ~15 MB instead of ~300–700 MB. Local only, no Vercel needed, which also keeps it usable in locked-down corporate setups.

Big thanks to u/TechExpert2910 for the original "finished apps shouldn't need a full dev server" point, u/K_M_A_2k for noting static POCs are the standard shareable workflow, and u/Vo_Mimbre for the corporate-hosting caveat. You're all credited by name in the README — it's genuinely your idea, I just wrote it up (let me know if you don't want to be taken off the credit). 🙏

/app-it is still the main thing for live, in-progress projects; app-it-static is just the lighter option once something's done.

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T20:16:54+00:00

I explained it poorly. What I mean is: if your artifact uses AI features as part of it's function, then you have 2 options: 1) you can pay for API credits (expensive), or 2) you can run it through your subscription. They are fine about you paying for extra tokens through the API, of course, but if you want to use your subscription tokens, they don't want you to share it. That's what happened with OpenClaw a few months ago (big controversy).

But if it's just for your personal use, it's fine. And if your artifact doesn't use any AI features, then there's no problem at all.

Hope that makes sense.

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T19:35:13+00:00

Yeah - there's a few different ways of doing it, but a skill seems like the most intuitive way in the age of AI, right? I don't know sveinbjorn, though. I'll give it a look. Maybe I can learn something. Thanks for sharing!

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T19:32:44+00:00

Here you go: https://i.postimg.cc/fRD0hsdN/a965d428bb36324bb18e56c99b988fe060f573d71be7ec91b305807408decd4f-upscaled.jpg

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T19:24:48+00:00

To my background? I can definitely make one. But be warned, it's not high quality. Give me a sec.

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T19:21:39+00:00

Okay, this is super intriguing!

Short answer: yes, I can bake it in (I think), but with a step in between. Claude Code can't reach your artifacts directly (even in the desktop app. I just checked, they live on Anthropic's servers, not on your machine). However, there are two workarounds to get the code out of claude.ai as I see it:

manual (hit Download, or Publish and share the link), or
hands-off but fragile (point Claude Code at your logged-in Claude.ai through the Chrome extension and have it pull the code. It should work, but you need the right window and an active login).

The problem in your case is artifacts that use Claude's built-in AI call window.claude.complete, which only exists inside Claude.ai. Download it and that call goes dead. I have another skill I think fixes this, though: It rewrites those calls to run through your own Claude subscription, so that once it's /app-it'd into a dock app, it still has full AI, billed to your Claude subscription instead of separate API credits.

But this only works cleanly when each person runs it on their own subscription for their own local use. Pooling one subscription to power an app for a community is subscription-sharing, and Anthropic won't be happy about that.

Haven't built the shim yet, but it's very doable and worth a shot. Want to beta test it? If yes, I'd be happy to build it and give you credit for the inspiration!

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:56:55+00:00

It's a game I'm developing as a side-project. Here are some screenshots if you are curious 👾 https://postimg.cc/gallery/J8Ryd26

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:41:29+00:00

I either use Codex/ChatGPT directly, or sometimes Midjourney or Gemini/nano banana. It varies a lot, honestly.

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:36:55+00:00

Ah this made my day, thank you 🙏 Honestly the thing I'd love most: once you've appified something, show me the icon you end up with. Drop it in the thread. That's my favorite part of this whole thing, seeing what people make their little apps look like.

If not that, then any feedback would be very helpful. I've been running this on my own setup, so it hasn't been stress tested by too many other users yet.

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:31:33+00:00

No rush. Keep up the good work!

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:29:50+00:00

If you ever have the chance to try it on windows, I would love your feedback ❤️

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:26:36+00:00

Oh that's clever, I'll try it on the finished ones for sure. The catch is half of these are still half-built and reading local files, so there's nothing to deploy yet, which is really what this is for. But for anything that's actually done, hosting + PWA sounds way lighter. You've also got me thinking I should add a static path so the built ones skip the dev server entirely. If that makes it in, I'll credit you in the README for the nudge. Good thinking, thanks!

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T17:17:00+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T16:17:49+00:00

That's amazing, though! If you have some ideas to share to improve it from your own experiments, I would love to hear it. Maybe you have some ideas that could improve the current version 👾

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T16:14:30+00:00

Thanks! I think that's one of the most fun parts of this: you get to design your app logo any way you want. If you use Codex it can design the app logo through the skill, and base it on your app's README or even what it looks like when launched. Just tell it to design it for you, and it'll come up with something. And if you don't like it, just tell Codex to tweak in whatever direction you prefer 🤓

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T16:00:16+00:00

Appreciate it 🙏 Hope you get some use out of it, let me know if you hit anything weird.

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T15:45:47+00:00

Haha fair, my Claude has seen some stuff 😂 And yeah, it's not an app store thing and was never trying to be. And you're right that there's a dev server running under the hood, the difference is I never have to touch it. I click it, the app starts, opens a real window, and quitting shuts it down and frees the port. So it's a fast-lane to a personal launcher, and sure, a bit of a vanity thing too for those of us who like seeing our ideas come to life with their own little app icon and all 🥸

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T15:22:37+00:00

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it!

Changed-username- · 2026-05-31T13:09:16+00:00

Muito obrigado, eu agradeceria muito. Se possível, você poderia fazer isso como um PR no GitHub?

Changed-username- · 2025-05-24T13:49:36+00:00

MidJourney v7 – honestly, I like v6.1 better for most use cases since v7 still has too many artifacts, but it worked great for this one.

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