I started this in a hotel room in Argentina.
Not as a stunt. Because that was the machine I had with me.
Nine time zones from my desk, no laptop, an idea that wouldn't leave me alone — and a phone.
Between those two things sat an industry telling me: get a machine, install a runtime, pick a framework, buy three subscriptions, learn a terminal. Then we'll talk.
That's not a technical requirement. It's a queue. And someone decided who gets to stand in it.
The thing nobody says out loud
AI can write code now. That part is finished. Anyone can generate an app.
What almost nobody can do is ship one. Because shipping isn't generating. Shipping is a build that actually compiles, a deploy that actually serves, a database that actually keeps your users apart, a link you can send to your mother and she opens it and it works.
That gap — between generated and shipped — is where almost everything dies. It's where the demo ends and the tutorial starts. It's why a thousand people have a folder of half-apps and nothing live.
Goblin lives in that gap. That's the whole product.
What it is
You describe what you want. The agent builds it, verifies it, and ships it — and you watch every step and take the wheel whenever you like.
No keys. No setup. No token counter ticking in the corner while you think.
It runs in the cloud, so the machine in your pocket is enough. Your code goes to your GitHub. Your app deploys to your Vercel. Your users' data sits in your database.
Not ours. Yours — and that's not a feature, it's the deal.
Read the ManifestoWho's behind it
One person. A solo founder from Switzerland.
No team yet, no investors yet, no roadmap slide with four quarters on it. Just a builder who got tired of the queue and wrote the way out — mostly from a phone, which turned out to be the honest test of whether any of this really works.
You're early. Early means you'll find things I haven't. When you do, tell me — I'm the one who reads it.