Build your first app with AI
You can start with a useful result instead of a framework choice. Describe a small website, tracker or business tool, work through the setup with your agent and use the first version before adding more. These guides take you through that complete loop in Vortex.
Choose a first result you can test
A portfolio page needs readable content and navigation. A project tracker needs a way to add an item, change its status and find it after reload. Name one of those outcomes in your first request. A small scope makes it easier to understand what the agent built and explain the next change.
Turn the conversation into a working project
Create a named project, or open an existing folder or repository. Let the agent inspect its dependencies, prepare the intended local environment and start the app. Keep setup failures with their output so you can continue the same project instead of creating duplicate attempts.
Try the app yourself
Open Preview, follow the main flow and test an empty or invalid input. If the app stores data, check it after reload and compare the API response with the database row. Your files and running app stay local; publishing is a separate decision after review.
Follow the detailed guides
- Build your first app
Start with a small idea you can describe in a few sentences. In this guide, you will ask a coding agent to create a simple article website, open it inside Vortex and make one change. You can follow the steps without writing code.
- Give your app a home
Your project is the folder that contains your app. A workspace groups projects; a conversation holds the instructions and decisions around a piece of work. For a first app, one workspace, one project and one chat are enough.
- Run your app and try it
The preview lets you use the app you are building while its conversation stays close by. Start the project, open the preview, then test the thing you asked the agent to make.
- Keep shaping the idea
Keep refining an idea in the same conversation so its decisions, files and previous results remain easy to find. Use another chat for a different piece of work, even when both belong to one project.
- Build an app that saves data
Turn Small Stories into an app whose articles are stored and read back. This walkthrough adds persistence to the first-app guide, using Vortex’s supported Laravel + React starter.