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What is Playcode
Playcode is an AI website builder that turns your ideas into professional websites. Describe what you want, AI builds it. No coding required.
AI Agent
Get started with the AI Agent in Playcode. Build websites, generate images, and edit anything with AI. Choose from 12+ models.
How AI Works
Learn how the AI guides you from idea to published website. Clarify your vision, build step by step, publish and iterate. Like having an agency in your browser.
Memory Records
Learn how to use Memory Records to help the AI assistant remember your preferences, coding patterns, and instructions across all projects.
Organize Projects with Folders
Learn how to organize your projects using folders. Create nested folders, move projects between folders, and keep your workspace tidy.
Checkpoints: Save and restore your project
Learn how to use checkpoints to save your project progress and restore to a previous state if something goes wrong.
How do I publish a website?
Learn how to publish your Playcode project to the web. Step-by-step guide to sharing your website online.
How to add NPM packages
Learn how to install and manage NPM packages in Playcode. Add React, Vue, or any package from NPM.
How to open terminal
Playcode does not have a terminal. Learn how to manage packages using the NPM Packages UI instead.
How to change subdomain name
Learn how to customize your Playcode project subdomain. Change from a numeric ID to a memorable custom name.
How to connect your own domain
Step-by-step guide to connecting your own domain to Playcode. Covers CNAME, A records, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, and troubleshooting.
How to make a project private
Learn how to make your Playcode project private. Keep your source code hidden while your published website remains accessible.
Understanding Project Limits
Learn about the 3-project limit, what counts as a project, and how grandfathering works for existing users.
Missing Projects After Update
Troubleshooting guide if you cannot see your projects after a Playcode update
Billing & Subscription Overview
Learn about Playcode pricing, Pro features, AI credits, and how subscriptions work.
AI Credits Balance
Learn how AI credits work in Playcode. Manage your balance, understand pricing, and get bonus credits with your Pro subscription.
How to Add Balance
Learn how to top up your AI credits balance in Playcode. Manual top-up, smart charging, and payment methods explained.
How Credits Work
How Playcode credits work, why "unlimited AI" plans do not exist, dev vs. support phase costs, and how to save with larger top-ups.
How to Save Credits
Practical ways to reduce AI spend in Playcode: scope prompts tightly, work block by block, use fresh chats per feature, and estimate before committing.
Choose the Right Model
Economy, Smart, and Pro modes in Playcode explained. When Economy is enough, when Smart is worth 10x the cost, and how to switch per task.
Write Good Prompts
How to write prompts that get the best result from AI in Playcode. Voice prompting, the stranger test, asking for the best in the world, and the polish prompt.
Guide the AI, Don't Delegate
Small steps, pressing Stop when the AI drifts, the 3-strike rule, white-screen debugging, and why you should never skip wireframes in Playcode.
Keep Your Site Online
How Playcode hosting works. The $25 minimal plan, custom domains, hosting without a subscription, and why credits and subscription are two different things.
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Quick Start
How to use Playcode
What is Playcode
Playcode is an AI website builder that turns your ideas into professional websites. Describe what you want, AI builds it. No coding required.
AI Agent
Get started with the AI Agent in Playcode. Build websites, generate images, and edit anything with AI. Choose from 12+ models.
How AI Works
Learn how the AI guides you from idea to published website. Clarify your vision, build step by step, publish and iterate. Like having an agency in your browser.
Memory Records
Learn how to use Memory Records to help the AI assistant remember your preferences, coding patterns, and instructions across all projects.
How do I publish a website?
Learn how to publish your Playcode project to the web. Step-by-step guide to sharing your website online.
How to add NPM packages
Learn how to install and manage NPM packages in Playcode. Add React, Vue, or any package from NPM.
How to open terminal
Playcode does not have a terminal. Learn how to manage packages using the NPM Packages UI instead.
How to Save Credits
Practical ways to reduce AI spend in Playcode: scope prompts tightly, work block by block, use fresh chats per feature, and estimate before committing.
Choose the Right Model
Economy, Smart, and Pro modes in Playcode explained. When Economy is enough, when Smart is worth 10x the cost, and how to switch per task.
Write Good Prompts
How to write prompts that get the best result from AI in Playcode. Voice prompting, the stranger test, asking for the best in the world, and the polish prompt.
Guide the AI, Don't Delegate
Small steps, pressing Stop when the AI drifts, the 3-strike rule, white-screen debugging, and why you should never skip wireframes in Playcode.
Get Help from Support
How to reach Playcode support. Real human replies, often from the founder himself, and most bugs fixed within 24 hours.
Preview
Run project, hard restart, freezing, live view, etc.
How to run code
Learn how code runs automatically in Playcode and how to manually control execution.
Project stuck or showing spinner
Troubleshoot when your project won't run or shows an endless spinner.
Project freezing on opening
Fix projects that freeze your browser when you open them due to infinite loops or recursion.
Editor
Editor settings: font-size, loop protection, vim mode, etc.
Projects
Privacy, save, delete, share
Organize Projects with Folders
Learn how to organize your projects using folders. Create nested folders, move projects between folders, and keep your workspace tidy.
Checkpoints: Save and restore your project
Learn how to use checkpoints to save your project progress and restore to a previous state if something goes wrong.
How to make a project private
Learn how to make your Playcode project private. Keep your source code hidden while your published website remains accessible.
Understanding Project Limits
Learn about the 3-project limit, what counts as a project, and how grandfathering works for existing users.
Missing Projects After Update
Troubleshooting guide if you cannot see your projects after a Playcode update
How to share a project
Learn how to share your Playcode project with others for viewing or editing. Perfect for collaboration, interviews, and pair programming.
SPA Mode (Single Page Application)
Learn when to enable SPA Mode for React Router and other single-page applications.
How to change your email
Learn how to update your Playcode account email address with two-step verification
How to delete your account
Learn how to permanently delete your Playcode account and all associated data
Billing
Cancel subscription, update billing info, set Tax ID, etc.
Billing & Subscription Overview
Learn about Playcode pricing, Pro features, AI credits, and how subscriptions work.
AI Credits Balance
Learn how AI credits work in Playcode. Manage your balance, understand pricing, and get bonus credits with your Pro subscription.
How to Add Balance
Learn how to top up your AI credits balance in Playcode. Manual top-up, smart charging, and payment methods explained.
How Auto-Recharge Works
Set up automatic balance top-ups in Playcode. Never run out of AI credits with smart auto-recharge settings and monthly limits.
Managing Your Playcode Subscription
Learn how to cancel, reactivate, switch plans, update payment methods, and manage your Playcode subscription.
How to cancel subscription
Learn how to cancel your Playcode Pro subscription through the billing page.
What Happens When You Downgrade
Learn what happens when you cancel Playcode Pro, including projects, privacy, storage, and the grandfathering policy.
How to add Tax ID
Learn how to add your Tax ID to your Playcode billing information.
How Credits Work
How Playcode credits work, why "unlimited AI" plans do not exist, dev vs. support phase costs, and how to save with larger top-ups.
Build & Deploy
Publishing, hosting, and deployment
How to change subdomain name
Learn how to customize your Playcode project subdomain. Change from a numeric ID to a memorable custom name.
How to connect your own domain
Step-by-step guide to connecting your own domain to Playcode. Covers CNAME, A records, Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, and troubleshooting.
Bundle configuration
Learn how to configure build settings using playcode.config.json. Control minification, tree shaking, and other esbuild options.
Using the Public Folder
Learn how to use the public folder in Playcode to store static files that work in both preview and published sites.
Keep Your Site Online
How Playcode hosting works. The $25 minimal plan, custom domains, hosting without a subscription, and why credits and subscription are two different things.
Policy
Privacy policy, terms of service
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