Limitations

Important information about Gen-code's current state

Gen-code is an exciting project in active development with ambitious goals. Currently in early access, it's important to understand its limitations. It's also helpful to know when established alternatives might be better suited for your needs.

The Honest Truth

Gen-code is in early access with a reduced web interface and based on an experimental framework.

Currently, it's best suited for mid-level developers or motivated juniors who want to experiment with new technology on weekend projects for local applications only.

We believe in honest communication about where we stand. Gen-code has potential, but we'd rather be upfront about current limitations. We prefer honesty over making promises we can't yet deliver on.

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Don't Use Gen-code If You Need

  • • An actual working code generator
  • • Immediate results for your project
  • • Production-ready solutions now
  • • Commercial projects
  • • Reliable timelines or delivery dates
  • • Proven, battle-tested technology

Better Alternatives Right Now

  • For local apps: Desktop frameworks like Qt
  • For no-code/low-code: Bubble, Webflow, Retool, Airtable, or FlutterFlow
  • For quick CRUD: Laravel Nova, Filament, Rails Admin, Django Admin, GoAdmin
  • For advanced web apps: Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Django, Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core

Maturity Limitations

Gen-code is currently in early development. We're working hard to deliver a robust and reliable application generator. Some features may be incomplete, experimental, or subject to change.

What's Working

  • • Core deterministic generation engine
  • • Basic CRUD admin scaffolding
  • • Go backend generation
  • • Simple web interface
  • • Database schema generation
  • • Docker configuration

What's In Development

  • • Complete feature roadmap available on our feature page

Focus Limitations

Gen-code focuses on local, homegrown applications for individual developers and small teams. We're building depth before breadth. This ensures quality and reliability in our service.

What We Focus On

  • • Local applications for personal use
  • • Single user applications
  • • Small groups (friends and family)
  • • CRUD-focused applications
  • • Single-device deployment
  • • Homegrown solutions and tools
  • • Individual developer/user productivity

What We Don't Focus On

  • • Large-scale enterprise applications
  • • Commercial SaaS platforms
  • • Highly customized complex apps
  • • Multi-tenant architectures
  • • High-traffic production systems
  • • Advanced distributed systems

Our Focused Approach

We believe in building excellent support for core technologies before expanding our scope. This focused approach ensures that every application we generate follows best practices and is well-optimized. It provides a solid foundation for your projects. As we perfect our service, we'll gradually expand to support more features.

Skill Limitations

Gen-code aims to be accessible to everyone in the future. Currently, it requires solid software development skills to have a pleasant experience. We recommend mid-level developers or motivated juniors for the best experience.

Required Background Knowledge

  • • Understanding of web application fundamentals
  • • Database concepts and basic SQL
  • • Comfortable with command line operations
  • • Basic API and HTTP request knowledge
  • • Git version control basics
  • • General software development workflow
  • • Ability to read and debug code
  • • Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Getting Started Without Experience

  • • Study our tutorial if you are really motivated
  • • Join our Discord community for support
  • • Practice modifying generated applications
  • • Learn incrementally through hands-on experience

Our Commitment to Accessibility

Gen-code is committed to expanding who can create homemade applications by lowering development barriers. Our ultimate goal is making robust application generation accessible to creators at all skill levels.

Currently, technical knowledge is necessary for a good experience. We're working toward broader accessibility through extensive documentation, examples, and community support. This will help users at different skill levels.

Licence Limitations

Gen-code is currently available under a non-commercial license. This restricts certain types of usage. The platform remains free for personal and educational use.

Permitted Uses

  • • Personal projects
  • • Family and friends applications
  • • Educational institutions and coursework
  • • Non-profit organizations and initiatives

Forbidden Uses

  • • All commercial usage
  • • Open source projects with permissive licenses (MIT, Apache, etc.)

Our Licensing Philosophy

Gen-code's approach is straightforward. As long as your use is non-commercial, you have complete freedom to create whatever you want.

Your generated code belongs entirely to you. We only restrict commercial usage. For personal projects, educational work, and non-profit initiatives, Gen-code is yours to use without limitations.

About Future Commercial Usage

Commercial usage is not the priority of Gen-code. Our focus is allowing the least friction possible to create personal projects.

We do consider offering commercial usage in the future to fund development of the core free service. However, it would require two significant changes: developing specific features needed for commercial offerings and managing customers rather than users. This is a lot of work if you want to do it correctly.

Therefore, we will not offer commercial licensing anytime soon. Our commitment remains on perfecting the personal project experience.

Built Something Great But Blocked?

If you've built something noteworthy with Gen-code but are constrained by our commercial licensing restrictions, please contact us. We'd like to discuss your project. We may consider exceptions on a case-by-case basis.

Help Shape Gen-code's Future

Gen-code is a community-driven project. Your feedback, contributions, and support help us build the future of application development.