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AppLoop: A Local-First Visual Builder
An agentic AI app builder with visual editing and production-ready code. Explore the AppLoop repository on GitHub: https://github.com/josoroma/AppLoop What if building an app felt less like describing a screenshot to a chatbot and more like editing the running interface directly? That is the idea behind AppLoop, a local-first visual builder for generated Next.js applications. AppLoop gives every project its own workspace, preview runtime, Hermes chat session, selected theme, runtime logs, and live iframe preview. Instead of treating AI-assisted development as a detached prompt box, AppLoop connects the prompt, the running app, the selected UI element, and the generated source code into one focused workflow. The builder runs locally at http://localhost:3001.…
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Hermes Gateway as a Loop for Custom Apps
Hermes Gateway turns an agent into a local HTTP service that a custom app can call from its own backend. The useful pattern is a loop: configure the runtime, start the gateway, send a task, poll for completion, return a response to the UI, then iterate on the prompt or route code. That loop keeps the browser simple. Next.js owns the product experience, Hermes owns the agent run, and .env keeps model keys and gateway tokens on the server. 1. Put Secrets in .env Use .env as the boundary between your application code and provider credentials. The browser should never receive OPENROUTER_API_KEY or the gateway API key. OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-... API_SERVER_KEY=change-me-local-dev GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true…
