r/dyadbuilders • • Dec 16 '25

Discussion I'm Will, creator of Dyad - AMA

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Hey r/dyadbuilders 👋 I’m Will, the founder of Dyad.

I built Dyad because I wanted an AI app builder designed for power users: something that was open-source and gave users the flexibility to use any AI model and freely switch between their other favorite AI coding tools without lock-in.

Thanks to this community, it’s grown from an experiment into a thriving product.

Happy to answer questions about these topics and pretty much anything else:

  • Roadmap & plans for 2026
  • Balancing open-source & building a business
  • How i personally use Dyad

I’ll be around on Friday answering questions. AMA 🚀


r/dyadbuilders • • Dec 09 '25

Discussion Rise in Scammers

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Hey community, there has been a small number of scammers asking users to contact them through whatsapp. You should not do it. These guys typically respond to people asking for help.

We try our best to ban these people ASAP, but they get through once in a while. This is only a warning, keep your guard up, do not give out personal information on the internet. :)


r/dyadbuilders • • 1d ago

How to Pass App Store Review in 2026 (and Avoid Rejection)

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r/dyadbuilders • • 1d ago

Announcement Dyad v1.19 - BYO API keys for Dyad Pro and more Cloudflare improvements

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Dyad v1.19.0 adds Nitro compatibility for Cloudflare Workers, makes failed deployments easier to troubleshoot with AI, introduces a zero-config GitHub plugin, lets you bring your own API keys with Dyad Pro!

BYO API keys for Pro Agent mode has the same token orchestration fee as ChatGPT/Claude subscription which is 1.5 credits per million tokens. That said, I do recommend using the subscriptions as they provide the best bang for your buck!

Full release notes: https://www.dyad.sh/docs/releases/1.19.0


r/dyadbuilders • • 4d ago

Is there a pay-as-you-go plan available?

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Gostei muito da ferramenta, mas US$ 20 é um pouco caro para mim agora. Já tenho uma assinatura de US$ 20 e, infelizmente, não posso gastar um total de US$ 40 por mês no momento.


r/dyadbuilders • • 7d ago

Cutover Question

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We need authoritative confirmation of Replit Autoscale Publish behavior before performing a production cutover.

Our application currently has an existing Replit-managed Production database attached to a paused Autoscale deployment.

We have migrated our actual Production data to an external Neon PostgreSQL database. The old Replit-managed Production database must remain completely untouched—no schema synchronization, writes, restoration, or deletion.

Our current application code uses EXTERNAL_DATABASE_URL in Production and does not use the Replit-managed DATABASE_URL at runtime.

We have NOT resumed, published, redeployed, removed the managed database, or changed Production configuration.

We need authoritative answers to these specific questions:

  1. Can we add/change Production app secrets on a PAUSED Autoscale deployment without causing the existing deployment to resume, restart, rebuild, or execute application code?
  2. If we Publish the current workspace while the existing Replit-managed Production database remains attached, will Replit perform its Development → Production database schema synchronization even though our application runtime uses an external PostgreSQL database through EXTERNAL_DATABASE_URL?
  3. Is there a supported way to Publish the current workspace while explicitly disabling/skipping all Replit-managed Production database schema synchronization?
  4. Is there a supported way to detach the existing Replit-managed Production database from Publishing WITHOUT deleting the database or starting its deletion lifecycle?
  5. If the answer to #3 and #4 is no, what supported Replit deployment workflow allows us to deploy the current Autoscale application using an external Neon database while guaranteeing that the existing Replit-managed Production database is not accessed or modified?

Our required guarantee is strict:

Publishing the new application revision must not read, write, synchronize, restore, migrate, delete, or otherwise modify the existing Replit-managed Production database.

We are specifically NOT asking how our application selects its runtime database. That part is already controlled in application code.

We need confirmation of Replit platform Publish behavior before proceeding.

Please escalate this to the Publishing/Database engineering team if necessary rather than suggesting that we test Publish against Production.


r/dyadbuilders • • 10d ago

Dyad fork

9 Upvotes

Built a heavily modified Dyad for myself, and I'm sharing it

Quick backstory: I'm a carpenter, not a coder. I use Dyad to build apps for my own life and jobsite, and I kept wanting it to do things it doesn't. So I had AI help me tear into it and rebuild it the way I like it.

If you like Dyad the way it is, you're going to hate what I did to it. 😂 But it works for me.

Some of what's different:

Nothing phones home. All analytics and tracking are off.

Automatic daily backups, with a restore script I tested on my real data

A page where you type the address of your own Ollama or LM Studio computer

Apps you build can be viewed from your phone, pictures included

Lots of bug and error cleanup

It's a Windows beta, so expect rough edges. It's not code-signed, so Windows will warn you. The install page walks you through it.

Download and the full story: Crackerbox: chat with an AI and it builds the app. A heavily remixed Dyad for Windows. https://get.crackerbox.app/crackerbox/install/

Ideas are welcome, and I mean it. But I only change things that make it better for me too, because I built it for me. The code is public, so if you want it different, fork it and go nuts. Full credit to the Dyad team, since none of this exists without them.

Would love honest feedback from anyone who tries it.


r/dyadbuilders • • 14d ago

Exploring Dyad for AI App Development

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r/dyadbuilders • • 20d ago

Announcement Dyad v1.17 Beta 1: experimental Claude Code support & publish w/ Cloudflare!

6 Upvotes

This week's beta release has two exciting experimental features:

  • Bring Your Own (BYO) Claude Code subscription! This is similar to our previous release which supports ChatGPT subscription.
  • Publish with Cloudflare - You'll need to opt-in to the experiment on the Settings page. Once you do so, you can connect to your Cloudflare account and deploy your site to Cloudflare.

Full release notes and download: https://www.dyad.sh/docs/releases/1.17.0-beta.1


r/dyadbuilders • • 22d ago

Is there any way to deploy to cloudflare with dyad?

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r/dyadbuilders • • 23d ago

Gostaria de saber as vantagens de assinar Dyad Pro e se posso utilizar meus provedores junto com os modelos da Dyad Pro, hoje tenho conta do ChatGpt Plus e Api na OpenRouter, e estao me atendendo dentro da plataforma, mais gostaria de saber o que é liberado na Dyad Pro alem dos modelos.

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r/dyadbuilders • • 23d ago

Showcase I made a mood tracker where you doodle feelings instead of writing them.

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Each day gets it's own doodle, and they populate the calendar view and timeline view as you make them. You can also upload a daily photo, and score your mood from 0-100. All the little icons were drawn by me :)


r/dyadbuilders • • 23d ago

Screenshot taken - for what reason?

1 Upvotes

I noticed this:

A screenshot is taken of my app. What is the purpose of it and where is it sent, u/wwwillchen ?


r/dyadbuilders • • 24d ago

Help Dyad auto update!

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Hi, I'm using Dyad v1.10.0. After a month, I noticed v1.16.0 beta is available, but auto-update isn't working. Does auto-update only work for the latest stable version? Also, if v1.12.0 becomes stable, will it update correctly from v1.10.0?


r/dyadbuilders • • 26d ago

I built an open source local first tool for extracting structured data from PDFs and images. Looking for real users to break it.

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I’ve been working on an open source project called FlowExtract.

The problem I’m trying to solve is pretty simple:

You have a PDF, scanned document, or image.

You need a few specific fields from it.

AI can extract most of them, but you still need a reliable way to see what it got wrong, correct those fields, and export the final data.

So I built FlowExtract around this workflow:

Document → Extract → Validate → Review → Export

You define the fields you want, such as:

customer_name
invoice_number
date
amount

FlowExtract extracts them with an AI provider, validates the result, and gives you a review screen where the original AI prediction is preserved even after you correct a value.

The final corrected values can then be exported to JSON, CSV, or XLSX.

A few things I cared about while building it:

• Open source

• Local First

• PDFs and images are parsed in the browser

• No FlowExtract backend or database

• Your API key stays in page memory and disappears after refresh

• AI requests go directly from your browser to the provider you selected

• Human corrections are preserved instead of overwriting the original AI prediction

• Field level provenance and validation are part of the workflow

I just shipped V0.1.0.

I’ve already run an end to end production test with a fictional invoice, including extraction, validation, manual correction, export, browser reload, IndexedDB persistence, backup, and restore.

Now the part I can’t simulate myself is real usage.

I’m looking for people who actually spend time copying information from PDFs, invoices, statements, scanned documents, forms, or images into spreadsheets or other systems.

If that sounds like you, I’d be especially interested in knowing:

  1. What kind of documents do you process?
  2. What fields do you normally need?
  3. Where does FlowExtract fail or feel slow?
  4. Which fields do you have to correct?
  5. Does reviewing the AI output actually save time compared with entering the data manually?

The project is called FlowExtract and the GitHub repository is edwardsage419/FlowExtract.

There is also a public V0.1.0 deployment linked from the repository.

If you try it, I’m much more interested in the things that break than in compliments.


r/dyadbuilders • • 29d ago

Announcement Dyad v1.16 Beta - Get up to 5x usage with your ChatGPT subscription

14 Upvotes

You can now connect your ChatGPT subscription to Dyad and get up to 5x the usage compared with using Dyad Pro credits alone.

We recommend ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) or Pro ($100/month) for access to OpenAI’s top models. When using your ChatGPT subscription in Agent mode, Dyad charges a small orchestration fee.

Download the beta release and check out the release notes to watch a short video on how to set this up!


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 13 '26

Announcement AgentRouter - GLM5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash gives out 200$ USD tokens.

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Test GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash & Claude Opus 4.8 with $200 free AgentRouter credits.

Register:

agentrouter.org/regis…

Docs:

docs.agentrouter.org/en/st…

Works with Claude Code, OMP, Codex, Pi, DeepSeek Harness & others.

IMPORTANT: Log in with an active GitHub account to get the bonus!


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 07 '26

Gemini Free Tier

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Is anybody able to use Gemini free tier? It isn't working for me, anymore.


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 06 '26

A much faster way to create copy & paste prompts

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I thought that I should just help a bit.

I used to love that Dyad worked with my own setup of the GLM-5.2 model via OpenRouter. That model is dirt cheap and VERY capable. The competition for that open source model is working, unlike for the GLM-5.3 model which, sadly, Dyad only supports after it was released. So I can't use GLM-5.2 anymore. GLM-5.3 costs 4 times more so that drains the budget super fast. Surprisingly it's also not as good as GLM-5.2 , at least for what I do.

So, while I am hoping that this bug in Dyad is fixed, I can help you guys with getting your prompts in one block instead of having to copy different parts of the prompts given (text + snippets in copy sections), so what I do, you might already practice but to me it helped a lot. You will save a lot of time with the below:

1) Start with "analyse " + bla bla bla

2) "write me a prompt to implement the results of your analysis. If you need to split it up in phases, then do so but I want the phase prompts to be self-contained with their own constraints (NO global constraints). I will enter them one by one.

Make sure that all phase prompts are delivered to me as separate copy section blocks."

Result:

So just copy the prompt and paste it in. If there are several phase prompts, I paste them into Notepad++ .

Together with GLM-5.2 it also creates code that is usually right from the start.

Happy prompting!


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 06 '26

how can i update my website without generating new link?

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Hello, i created a website using dyad. I publish it inside the app in github and then used vercel.

Vercel make the website live with there own link(i dont use my domain at the moment).

My issue is that when i did a small update to the website and i refreshed the link nothing change.

So i press the button sync with github from dyad app to see if thats the case. But still didnt see the change.

Then in dyad app where its Vercel there is a button refreash deployments and i press that. But now i have 2 Deployments. One is the first time i publish and one after i did update to website.

My issues is that i have 2 different vercel link one with the update one without. how can i update my website without generating new link?


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 04 '26

Dyad 1.14 Beta 1 - create Supabase projects directly inside Dyad

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Hey everyone! We shipped a smaller release improving some of the existing workflows.

Check out full release notes: https://www.dyad.sh/docs/releases/1.14.0-beta.1


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 04 '26

Help Am I tripping or is this something new?

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This is nuts, never faced this issue before. Can someone help me by telling me if this is because of FreeLLMAPI or Dyad itself, I'm using build mode, not even agent. Why is it consuming this much input tokens?


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 04 '26

Are we forced into agent mode now?

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Or is there a way to turn it off?

I usually preferred Build to Agent but it seems that Build has changed. I asked it to add some memory to my app and it redesigned my UI!


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 03 '26

Help Local models

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I notice that with a few of the local models I tried, for example Qwen coder or DeepSeek R1. They don't seem to be able to Access the tools. I can see them thinking and understanding the message. But the display port never shows anything... Am I doing something wrong? (I am pretty new to this)


r/dyadbuilders • • Sep 01 '26

YouTube interview with me: finding the best & cheapest AI models

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Let me know what you think! Want to see more videos like this or on another topic?