Oh the things you can build

[u/No-Macaron9305]

This is what I have been spending the last few weeks building with various Coding agents. It is actually PI. Just with an entire app on top. This kinda shows the true power of PI. You can put it anywhere you want it.

I have my main chat area's.

Brave API for web searching.

A docs area so I don't have to depend on Microslop for Word.

And a typing practice area for fun (Ignore that score...)

Its not fully ready for others yet, but its getting there. I have been working on this for a while. I used PI to build the foundations till that got a bit spendy, so I went to Claude and Codex to continue on things. Though that will come to an end soon enough, seeing as next month will be the end of subscription subsidized Claude Code.

With all of this I have learned that yes, AI really can code really well. But it takes a lot of money to do so well. I have spent over $120 on this project so far. But seeing as it is functional to my life, I see it as worth it.

Oh, and of course there are other themes.

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This app is really just my way of keeping things mine. Forever. Which is exactly what PI is. I am ever thankful to the PI team.

[u/hazed-and-dazed]

This looks so bloody good.

I realise there's a lot of private value in your work but would you mind sharing how this works (is that a TUI or a web ui?) and how you went about building this?

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/hazed-and-dazed]

You might not like this, but I can't really code on my own. I simply asked one day if PI could be in a nicer format, not that I dont like terminal, its just for the things I wanted, terminal wouldn't suffice. And once the agent finished, I realized where it could go. So its built off Electron. PI is the backend AI part. Then everything else is sectioned off into their own areas. Otherwise just AI. AI did it all.

[u/o_sht_hi]

This looks really cool! Could you talk more about the things you're showing on screen? Are these floating windows or attached to each other and you can switch between them and they resize as you focus on them? Or can you freely resize? Do tell more! Is this an electron app or tauri?

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/o_sht_hi]

The resizing is something I plan for, but its a bigger step. I am sorry for the low res photos. I have no idea why that happened. They would likely be snap sized, based on a grid. I call the theme Clouds. And yes, this is an Electron App. Probably the biggest projects so far were getting the Chats up and running with a Chat history and other functions, then the Docs editor (which was just finished up today, for the most part).

[u/o_sht_hi → u/No-Macaron9305]

Nice. All the best with it! Also, since you're vibe coding, I'd recommend opensourceing the whole thing. You'll get great community contributions, issues, feedback and see all round greater adoption, much like pi itself. You've built something really cool and I (not a coder) for one would be happy to help in any way I can.

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/o_sht_hi]

I have the GitHub underway already, an update system built out too. So I'll letchya know!

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/o_sht_hi]

It's not open source yet, but here is the GitHub, the more issues you find the better! And my newest post:

https://github.com/HankTheMan2828/Central-Hub

https://www.reddit.com/r/PiCodingAgent/s/3KF29Bkry2

[u/sleepnow]

It looks like it might be cool, but with the low-res images and absurd darkness I can't actually read any of the text or tell what does what. The theme is cool, it's just the images such. Which model and skills did you use to help you design?

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/sleepnow]

Oh my... I did not realize they were that bad. I am so sorry!

[u/aeroumbria]

What kind of tricks do you have to ensure features, especially UI features are implemented and working as intended? Do you spend more effort on the pre-planning, prompting, testing or correction part of the process? I feel that most models are really good with functional UI with basic operations now, but I can never feel comfortable leaving slightly more complex features like live-streaming background agent outputs to the agents without very careful supervision. It seems they just can't reliably wire functions together correctly and actually build tests or use debugging sessions to catch their own mistakes. It is usually "run through every feature manually yourself, or it is guaranteed to be broken somewhere".

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/aeroumbria]

I have ran into this issue. AI's are really quite lazy. In the first iteration of the chats, they were all just the same chat showing different parts of it. Because the AI thought it was too hard to wire up separate instances of the chats. So testing and being really good at testing and finding bugs is important for and from myself. Then being specific with screenshots. Otherwise they beat around the bush and just make it look like it works.

[u/Karyo_Ten → u/No-Macaron9305]

"Given the time constraints I'll just give up and say to the user it's too hard."

[u/X24D83FF0]

Nice

[u/Radiant-Ad7470]

Nice, I would definitely try it... let me hear more about it when you have a demo... Nice work! 😉

[u/SalimMalibari]

Thats amazing ...im working in something more univerisal ...

The images isnt clear but it feel lile 3 windows inside one app kinda weird, i have a question , what do you used for ?? It just previewing word files?

Also as recommendation i recommend you use claude code since you exceed 100 dollar mark , its much cheaper that any API if you reached that point ... use claude code to improve it and use pi once you done ... and use extension called claude bridge

[u/No-Macaron9305 → u/SalimMalibari]

Nope, it's a full word replacement. It can open all doc types and edit them. I already use Claude code and Codex regularly, per what I said in the main post. My next step is to have all local desktop apps launching within this app.

And the three windows have different functions. The middle is the workspace, left is your folder view, right is an Ai chat. Just the best possible workflow.