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Dev tools · July 13, 2016

Anvil, Visual Basic reimagined for the web

Anvil is a free Python-based drag-and-drop web app builder

Anvil, Visual Basic reimagined for the web launched on July 13, 2016 with 7 votes, #1,848 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Build rapidly with AI. Generate code you understand. All on a platform you can trust. Beautiful. Explicit. Simple. Code with Python and use all your favorite libraries. Use your favourite AI agent directly within the Anvil Editor. Generate code you can actually understand. Edit your apps to create exactly what you want. Every single aspect of your app, driven in a single framework: code, databases, user management, deployment - all in Python, all in Anvil. Anvil is a marvellous example of a tool that gets all the tedious, repetitive, boilerplate activities out of the way so you can concentrate on writing powerful applications; which you can deploy with a single click. Go from idea to…from anvil.works

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