Frequently asked questions
The questions we are asked most often, each with its full answer. An answer appears here as soon as it is written.
What applications can be built?
Any business management application, with its screens, its rules and its access rights: an internal tool, a CRM, management software, or an app that replaces an Excel spreadsheet. Already built on the platform: a recruitment tracker, a leave management tool, a manufacturing workshop, a hair salon.
Can I replace an Excel spreadsheet with an app?
Yes. You describe what your spreadsheet tracks: its columns become the application's data, with their rules and their access rights. Each person sees what concerns them, every list has its search and filters, and your data is imported into the application.
Who can build an application?
You, without being a developer: you tell the agents what you want, in your own words. The platform also works very well with developers, and that is where it is strongest: you have the agents deliver a few features, a developer codes one by hand, then you carry on with the agents. The code stays regular and coherent at every change: agent or developer, each picks it up where it stands. That is what sets Built Mine apart from other AI-assisted coding tools.
No-code or low-code: what is the difference, and where does Built Mine fit?
With no-code, you build an application with visual tools, without writing code. With low-code, you also use visual tools, and a developer writes part of the code. With Built Mine, you describe the need in your own words, and AI agents write all the code: for you, it is no-code. This code is the application's real code, standard .NET and React, and it belongs to you: a developer can take it up and code a feature by hand, as in low-code. Built Mine is a French no-code platform, hosted in France.
Is it vibe coding?
It is a different approach. In vibe coding, an AI writes the code as the conversation goes, and each request can rewrite it. With Built Mine, the AI describes your application: its data, its screens, its rules and its access rights. The platform then builds most of the code from that description, with proven building blocks, the same way every time: the application lasts. A change alters the description, and the platform updates what it touches. Every improvement to a building block benefits every application. Tests, code review and penetration tests come on top, with every feature.
How long does a first application take?
An estimate, for a simple application: a hair salon's, with 6 entities (its clients, its services, its team, its working hours, its absences and the appointments), 3 roles and 2 languages, with appointments booked online and the salon's agenda. The base takes half a day: about an hour of conversation with the adviser, then three and a half hours of building. Then come a day and a half of trials and changes, in about 8 features. About 2 days in all.
Does the prototype become the delivered application?
Yes. From the first day, your mock-up is the real application: the one you try is the one that will go live.
How is quality checked?
Through automated tests, a code review, a trial in the browser, a check of every screen on mobile and on computer, and penetration tests with their report.
Can the application run in another language?
It speaks French and English.
Where do my clients' data stay?
With our hosting, in France, with OVHcloud. Or on your own server. For the AI, you choose the model, in France or in the United States.
Can I host the application myself?
Yes. Your teams then build and deploy it from its source code, with their own tools. Our hosting, for its part, comes with the subscription: the platform is what puts the application into production, with a backup before every go-live and a rollback possible. It makes the application reachable through its entry point, in HTTPS, and passes it the settings entered in the studio.
Should the business application and the website be kept apart?
We advise it, for security and robustness. The website is open to everyone; the business application holds your clients' data. Kept apart, each has its own system account and its own database, reserved for it alone: your data stays protected, whatever happens to the website. Each also has its own memory ceiling, its own deliveries and its own penetration tests: the application keeps its memory during a peak of visits, and a page of the website changes while the application stays as it is. Built Mine does the same: the platform and this website are two applications.
Who owns the application, and how do I get its code?
You do: standard .NET and React, which your developers retrieve whenever they want, with its whole history. If you leave, a dated exit: notice, transition, retrieval, then erasure attested by a certificate. The platform's common building blocks this code uses remain under licence.
What happens to my records when I end the subscription?
They are kept while the subscription runs, handed to you in an open format, then deleted after the agreed period.
Can I bring my own developer?
Yes. Invited to the project with the Developer role, they code a feature with their own tools; the platform reviews it, tests it and delivers it.
How do the platform's improvements reach my application?
Every improvement of the platform also benefits the applications already built, at their next change.