Why I built Pinacle

Hello everyone! 👋

I've built this after seeing so many enthusiastic designers and builders out there hitting a wall and giving up after a certain point when building with AI

I also built this out of my own frustration of building initial prototypes in Lovable collaborating with designers, but then having to move to local Cursor to actually continue working on the project and losing the collaboration aspect completely, as I'd need to set them up with all the tooling.

Pinacle does not attempt to be better than any other vibe-coding platforms or coding assistant, instead, I've simply transferred my workflow, using the industry leading tools, into a devbox online. This means Claude Code, the leading coding assistant, or Cursor/Codex CLI if you are more comfortable with that. VS Code, because sometimes you just need to see the code for yourself, and a terminal, to get full control.

As coding assistants get smarter and smarter, they can actually run tasks for many hours, IF the environment is setup properly for them. And this is exactly what Pinacle allows you to do. For as little as $7 you can have your own VM running 24/7 for your agent to keep working on.

This means I can now also simply throw my designer in there, to fix the UI, or my product colleague, to prototype new features directly. With coding assistants dev tools are now easier to use than ever, so they don't have a hard time at all, while actually using a professional setup.

And if you are an indiehacker, this also means clear separation and always-running dev environments and dev servers for each of your projects. In this world of building faster than ever, where ideas abound and context-switching is higher than ever, Pinacle always help you jump back in that side project ready to continue coding.

We put a ton of effort on the little design details of the platform and double that on the reliability of the pods and each tiny feature. I hope you'll love use it as much as we did building it.