Floot

The easiest way for non-coders to build apps with AI.

Summer 2025

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The easiest way for non-coders to build apps with AI.

Floot lets non-coders & entrepreneurs build real web apps that actually work. We’re taking a new approach by building everything from the ground up for AI. ✨ Try building an app at floot.com Existing AI app builders fall short of enabling non-coders to build real, serious apps. They often: - Break down when building anything more than a prototype or toy app - Have non-coders stuck with errors they don’t understand - Require non-coders to handle multiple services designed for developers (e.g. for backend, database, hosting, etc) The fundamental problem: these AI app builders just cobble together existing developer tools and slap AI on top, but these tools were designed for humans and not for AI. The result? Non-coders get excited, start building, hit a wall, and then abandon their projects. Floot is purpose-built for AI. Our secret sauce: 1) Instead of reusing a coding framework designed for humans, we created a specialized framework that dictates how AI should write code and how the code runs on our infrastructure. This allows us to enforce best practices, detect errors earlier, and give the best feedback to the AI. As a result, Floot can write better code and fix issues more effectively. 2) Floot has the entire tech stack built-in (backend, database, hosting, etc) so building and managing an app feels seamless, especially for non-coders. And because we control every layer of the stack, we can optimize each layer for AI-first coding. Because of this, non-coders can get more done with less time and prompting. They can finally build serious apps that work, instead of getting stuck in frustrating error loops and then abandoning their projects. We also built a highly scalable hosting system directly on AWS so Floot apps can handle real traffic and business demands. This means non-coders can build, deploy, and scale their apps on a single platform seamlessly. Plus, Floot is really fun to use! Try building an app at floot.com

Active Founders

Yujian Yao

Founder

Yujian was a staff engineer at Retool where he rebuilt the entire Retool runtime powering every Retool app. Before that, he was an early engineer at Asana. He’s also a gold medalist in National Olympiad Informatics, Singapore.

Yujian Yao

Founder

Edward Look

Founder

Edward bootstrapped his last SaaS company to $5M+ ARR and 10k+ customers. For his company, he built a highly scalable and reliable distributed system to handle low-latency applications on bare metal servers. Before that, Edward built infrastructure at AWS and studied CS at Berkeley.

Edward Look

Founder

Company Launches

Floot - The easiest and most powerful AI app builder

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Hi everyone 👋 We’re Edward and Yujian, the founders of Floot!

TLDR: Floot lets non-coders & entrepreneurs build real web apps that actually work. We’re taking a new approach by building everything from the ground up for AI.

✨ Try building an app right now!

The Problem

Existing AI app builders fall short of enabling non-coders to build real, serious apps. They often:

Break down when building anything more than a prototype or toy app
Have non-coders stuck with errors they don’t understand
Require non-coders to handle multiple services designed for developers (e.g. for backend, database, hosting, etc)

The fundamental problem: these AI app builders just cobble together existing developer tools and slap AI on top, but these tools were designed for humans and not for AI.

The result? Non-coders get excited, start building, hit a wall, and then abandon their projects.

Our Solution

Floot is purpose-built for AI. Our secret sauce:

Instead of reusing a coding framework designed for humans, we created a specialized framework that dictates how AI should write code and how the code runs on our infrastructure. This allows us to enforce best practices, detect errors earlier, and give the best feedback to the AI. As a result, Floot can write better code and fix issues more effectively.
Floot has the entire tech stack built-in (backend, database, hosting, etc) so building and managing an app feels seamless, especially for non-coders. And because we control every layer of the stack, we can optimize each layer for AI-first coding.

Because of this, non-coders can get more done with less time and prompting. They can finally build serious apps that work, instead of getting stuck in frustrating error loops and then abandoning their projects.

We also built a highly scalable hosting system directly on AWS so Floot apps can handle real traffic and business demands. This means non-coders can build, deploy, and scale their apps on a single platform seamlessly.

Plus, Floot is really fun to use! It takes your prompt, breaks it down, and shows you how it accomplishes each step. If it sees a bug while building, it lets you know and fixes it right away.

You can even draw on your app to visually communicate the changes you want:

Here’s what a customer said about Floot:

I'd tried other platforms but could never advance far enough to feel truly productive. The time investment and constant token usage just to fix issues had me ready to hire a developer again. With Floot, I had a working app within a week, even working in my off-hours, and started beta testing with my team days later. We estimate Floot has saved us around $20,000 so far. Best of all, their customer support has gone above and beyond at every turn.

✨ Try Floot yourself! (bonus: build something you’ve made in other tools to compare)

Why are we building this?

We believe that existing tools are based on technologies built for human developers and ill-suited for the future of AI writing most of the code. The whole toolchain of building and maintaining software desperately needs to adapt to the new reality. We are starting with web apps with the goal of evolving into the new foundation of software, empowering the next generation of builders.

Team

Yujian was a staff software engineer at Retool and Asana. At Retool, he rebuilt the entire runtime to optimize the user experience for builders. At Asana, he built the rich editor that powers every task and comment. Yujian ranked 4th in the National Olympiad in Informatics, Singapore.

Edward scaled his SaaS to $5M+ ARR and 10k+ customers by taking something technically complex and making it accessible to non-technical users, and now he’s doing the same with Floot. For his SaaS, he built a highly scalable and reliable distributed system to handle low-latency applications. Before that, Edward built infrastructure at AWS and studied CS at Berkeley.