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By Dominic Cicilio
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YoAmigo Studio is in Early Access

YoAmigo Studio is now in early access. Bring your own CLI agent, Claude Code or Codex, and get auth, a database, payments, secrets, and easy publishing wired for you. Full control, no service stitching, no hosting markup.

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YoAmigo Studio is in early access.

YoAmigo Studio is a desktop app for building full web apps with the CLI coding agent you already use, like Claude Code or Codex. It gives your agent a complete backend out of the box: authentication, a database, payments, secrets, file storage, and easy publishing. You connect your own AI subscription, and you keep full access to the code.

Most builders stop at the front end, so you end up wiring auth, a database, payments, and hosting together yourself. YoAmigo does that wiring for you. You bring the agent, YoAmigo provides the backend, and you stay in control of both.

Studio is a desktop app you download and run on your own machine. It is now the home for everything YoAmigo, and the old web builder is retired.

Bring Your Own Agent, and Cut Your Costs

You bring your own coding agent instead of paying YoAmigo per message. If you have an Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google plan, you connect it and run YoAmigo on your own subscription. For most people that cuts the cost of building by 5 to 10x compared to tools that mark up tokens on every message.

There is no YoAmigo-provided AI yet, and for now that is intentional. You run the agent you already trust.

It Does the Wiring, So You Stop Stitching Services

This is the part that usually eats weeks. To ship a real app you need accounts and login, somewhere to store data, a way to take payments, a safe place for secrets, media handling, and a domain. Most tools either charge a premium for that or leave you to wire a dozen services together by hand.

YoAmigo Studio does the wiring for you:

  • Authentication with email and password sign-in built in, so the people who use your app can sign up and log in out of the box.
  • A database for every app, with its own staging and production environments. Your data lives in your app, not in someone else's shared tables, and you can try changes in staging before they reach production.
  • A permissions layer on your data that sets who can read and write each table. The rules live at the data layer, not only in the code your agent writes, so your access controls do not hinge on the AI getting every query right. It is designed to reduce the risk of the data exposure that AI-built apps are prone to.
  • Payments, so you can charge for what you build.
  • An encrypted secrets vault for API keys and credentials, injected into your app at run time instead of sitting on your computer.
  • Media handling for images, audio, and video, without you managing storage and a CDN.
  • Domains, so you can connect one you already own or get a new one.

One tool, one place, instead of a dozen dashboards and a weekend of glue code.

Real Applications, Not Just Pages

Plenty of tools can produce a landing page. YoAmigo is built for full applications. Authentication, a permissioning system that keeps user data secure, databases, and payments are first-class, not add-ons you bolt on later.

It is built so you can ship many applications quickly, using the same tools and processes professional developers use, at the most affordable pricing on the market.

Full Control: Inline Edits and Full Code Access

You are never locked out of your own app. For small changes like a headline or a color, edit inline without spending agent tokens on a one-line tweak. For anything deeper, you have full access to the actual code: read it, edit it, and see exactly what is running. There is no proprietary format in between. It is real code, and it is yours.

Easy Publishing, and Your Site Stays Up

When it is ready, you publish to production right from Studio, with no deploy pipeline to set up. Every app gets a free yoamigo.com subdomain right away, and you can point a custom domain at it whenever you want. Your site stays up while you keep editing, so shipping a change never means taking your app offline.

Transparent Pricing, Honest Incentives

YoAmigo runs on a simple subscription, and hosting and usage are billed at cost, never marked up. Nothing is hidden. Transparency matters here as much as anything.

Most AI builders make money by selling you credits and then nudging you to burn more of them. The more tokens you spend, the more they make, which rewards the tool for getting you to use more rather than helping you finish. That is a bad deal for you. YoAmigo does not work that way. You bring your own AI subscription, so YoAmigo has no reason to push you toward spending more tokens. The subscription stays the same whether you build a little or a lot, and the better YoAmigo works for you, the longer you stay.

Earn by Bringing People In

If YoAmigo works for you and you tell people, you should share in that. As you get access, your account receives a referral code. Anyone who subscribes through it earns you 10% of their subscription, for the life of that subscription. It helps YoAmigo grow and gives back to the people who help it grow.

It Is Early, and Improving Fast

This is genuinely early. There are rough edges, and I am fixing them fast. Updates ship nearly every day. But it has reached the point where it is stable enough to build on, and the apps you make now will keep working as it grows.

I built YoAmigo so anyone comfortable with a CLI agent can ship a real, full app without wiring the infrastructure themselves. There is more on that in Why I Built YoAmigo.

Want in? Early access is invite only for now, and invites are going out on a rolling basis. Request access.

Dominic Cicilio

About the Author

Dominic Cicilio

Independent developer with 10+ years of experience building software. Former early engineer at a security-first startup, now creator of YoAmigo.

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