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Mocha is winding down.
After two years, we’ve made the decision to sunset the product. We started with a bet that anyone with an idea should be able to build actual, useful, real working apps with auth, databases, backends, and one-click deploys. We believed the people locked out of building software had some of the best ideas of anyone.
And for a lot of you, it worked. Real small business owners and creators built actually useful software with Mocha: customer portals, booking systems, internal tools, side projects that turned into businesses. People who'd never written a line of code, running their work on software they built themselves. That part was real.
But the business underneath had its challenges. A combination of high user acquisition costs driven by competition, expensive unit economics due to AI token requirements of the product, and high support costs all compounded into making the business capital intensive. We weren't able to raise the capital to withstand this over the long run. Closing is the right call for our team and our investors.
The best part about our journey was you, our users. We care deeply about our users, so we spent real time finding the right home for your apps — and we found one in @anything. They share our philosophy: integrated, opinionated, built for people who describe outcomes and want working software. As a bonus, they support mobile apps, something many of you have been asking us for. Mocha apps will be in good hands there.
They've built a one-click migration that ports your apps over and keeps them live. We've tested it. It works.
They’re also going to provide dedicated help to anyone looking to migrate over.
Timeline:
Today: New signups closed. Existing customers, we're here for you.
Through July: Migration support and reminders.
August 1: Mocha's app builder shuts down. Migration and export tools stay open for 30 days after.
Move your apps → anything.com/mocha ($20 in credits to help with post-migration edits) Prefer to export and self-host? Settings → Export.
To everyone who built something with Mocha: thank you. Watching what you made was the best part of this journey. The era of idea people and personal software isn't over. It's just beginning.
— Nicholas & Ben
Mocha retweeted
welcome to Anything
Nicholas, Ben and the team built something real
we're honored to carry it forward
migrate your Mocha apps in one click
+ get 20k credits on us
Mocha is winding down.
After two years, we’ve made the decision to sunset the product. We started with a bet that anyone with an idea should be able to build actual, useful, real working apps with auth, databases, backends, and one-click deploys. We believed the people locked out of building software had some of the best ideas of anyone.
And for a lot of you, it worked. Real small business owners and creators built actually useful software with Mocha: customer portals, booking systems, internal tools, side projects that turned into businesses. People who'd never written a line of code, running their work on software they built themselves. That part was real.
But the business underneath had its challenges. A combination of high user acquisition costs driven by competition, expensive unit economics due to AI token requirements of the product, and high support costs all compounded into making the business capital intensive. We weren't able to raise the capital to withstand this over the long run. Closing is the right call for our team and our investors.
The best part about our journey was you, our users. We care deeply about our users, so we spent real time finding the right home for your apps — and we found one in @anything. They share our philosophy: integrated, opinionated, built for people who describe outcomes and want working software. As a bonus, they support mobile apps, something many of you have been asking us for. Mocha apps will be in good hands there.
They've built a one-click migration that ports your apps over and keeps them live. We've tested it. It works.
They’re also going to provide dedicated help to anyone looking to migrate over.
Timeline:
Today: New signups closed. Existing customers, we're here for you.
Through July: Migration support and reminders.
August 1: Mocha's app builder shuts down. Migration and export tools stay open for 30 days after.
Move your apps → anything.com/mocha ($20 in credits to help with post-migration edits) Prefer to export and self-host? Settings → Export.
To everyone who built something with Mocha: thank you. Watching what you made was the best part of this journey. The era of idea people and personal software isn't over. It's just beginning.
— Nicholas & Ben
Mocha retweeted
Nicholas, Ben and team built a great product and cared enough about customers to find them a new home
Excited to welcome all Mocha builders and apps to Anything
Migrate in 1 click and get 20k Anything credits on us
Mocha is winding down.
After two years, we’ve made the decision to sunset the product. We started with a bet that anyone with an idea should be able to build actual, useful, real working apps with auth, databases, backends, and one-click deploys. We believed the people locked out of building software had some of the best ideas of anyone.
And for a lot of you, it worked. Real small business owners and creators built actually useful software with Mocha: customer portals, booking systems, internal tools, side projects that turned into businesses. People who'd never written a line of code, running their work on software they built themselves. That part was real.
But the business underneath had its challenges. A combination of high user acquisition costs driven by competition, expensive unit economics due to AI token requirements of the product, and high support costs all compounded into making the business capital intensive. We weren't able to raise the capital to withstand this over the long run. Closing is the right call for our team and our investors.
The best part about our journey was you, our users. We care deeply about our users, so we spent real time finding the right home for your apps — and we found one in @anything. They share our philosophy: integrated, opinionated, built for people who describe outcomes and want working software. As a bonus, they support mobile apps, something many of you have been asking us for. Mocha apps will be in good hands there.
They've built a one-click migration that ports your apps over and keeps them live. We've tested it. It works.
They’re also going to provide dedicated help to anyone looking to migrate over.
Timeline:
Today: New signups closed. Existing customers, we're here for you.
Through July: Migration support and reminders.
August 1: Mocha's app builder shuts down. Migration and export tools stay open for 30 days after.
Move your apps → anything.com/mocha ($20 in credits to help with post-migration edits) Prefer to export and self-host? Settings → Export.
To everyone who built something with Mocha: thank you. Watching what you made was the best part of this journey. The era of idea people and personal software isn't over. It's just beginning.
— Nicholas & Ben
5 Common Mistakes Building Apps
00:51 Prompting Everything at Once
01:27 Not Testing What AI Builds
01:42 Describing Solutions Not Problems
02:23 Ignoring the Mess Until Too Late
03:00 Building Features Nobody Asked For
Mocha retweeted
It's been amazing to support platforms like Mocha —hosting their AI generated apps (100k+), enabling them to do it safely (built in isolation + safely storing secrets) & helping them extend our products (D1, R2) to their end users
powered by @Cloudflare Workers for Platforms 🧡
Less than a year ago @get_mocha took a bet on @cloudflare infrastructure for deploying our users' AI-written apps. 100,000 published apps later, we're more convinced than ever Cloudflare has built the best platform for the AI era.
I wrote about the specifics here 👇
Mocha retweeted
Less than a year ago @get_mocha took a bet on @cloudflare infrastructure for deploying our users' AI-written apps. 100,000 published apps later, we're more convinced than ever Cloudflare has built the best platform for the AI era.
I wrote about the specifics here 👇
A question for all builders.
Cloning Apps vs. Building from Scratch
What's your build method?
88%Build from scratch
12%Clone, then customize
16 votes • Final resultsWe made an app for Punch, The Monkey.
Every time someone in our office thinks about the little monkey, we click the Punch button! Since the weekend, our team has thought of Punch 913 times.
punch.mocha.app
Are you thinking of Punch?
You asked, we shipped!
Introducing Mocha Emails!
Watch @nichochar's in-depth tutorial on how to set up and send emails within your app!
Mocha was featured in @AnthropicAI latest Claude launch under “Hear from our customers.”
We’ve been working with early access to the new model and running it through real product scenarios, providing feedback as it evolves.
We’ve always believed that building website and software should feel simple, especially for people who aren’t technical. No stitching tools together. No hiring developers for basic internal systems. Just describe what you want, and launch.
The technology is evolving fast, and we’re building right alongside it.
Mocha retweeted
Very proud to have @get_mocha mentioned in the launch post.
We collaborate with Anthropic to give them early feedback on this model, and got to play around with it using Mocha's harness.
At a high level, here are our thoughts (make sure to follow @sean_moriarity who ran all the evals and will likely share more over the coming days):
Sonnet 4.6 feels like a fundamentally different model than Sonnet 4.5, it is much closer to the Opus series in terms of agentic behavior and autonomy.
Autonomy - In our zero-shot app building experiments, Sonnet 4.6 ran up to 3-4x longer than Sonnet 4.5 without intervention, producing functional apps on par in terms of quality to the Opus series. Note that subjectively we found Opus 4.5 and 4.6 are better "designers" than Sonnet 4.6; producing more visually appealing apps from the same prompts.
Planning / Task Decomposition - We found Sonnet 4.6 is very good at decomposing tasks and staying on track during long-running trajectories. It's quite good at ensuring all of the requirements of an input prompt are accounted for, whereas we were often forced to goad sonnet 4.5 into decomposing tasks, Sonnet 4.6 does this naturally.
Exploration - In some of our complex "exploration" tasks (e.g. cloning/remixing an existing website), Sonnet 4.6 often performs on par or better than Opus 4.5 and 4.6. It generally takes longer, and takes more tokens, though we believe this is likely a consequence of our tool-calling setup.
Tool-use - Sonnet 4.6 seems eager to use tools; however, we did find that it struggles with our XML-based custom tool use format (perhaps exclusive to the format we use). We did not have a chance to assess with native tool use
Self-verification - Similar to Opus 4.5/4.6, Sonnet 4.6 has a proclivity for verifying it's work.
Prompting - We found Sonnet 4.6 is very sensitive to prompting around thinking, planning, and task decomposition. Our prompt built for sonnet 4.5 has a tendency to push sonnet 4.6 into incredibly long thinking and planning loops. Though we also found it requires significantly less careful and specific instructions for how to approach problems.
How are we thinking about this:
We can't launch this model day 0, it requires more changes to our harness, and we're working on them right now.
But it reminds me a bit of 3.5 to 3.7 --> It's a pretty different model that behaves and responds to instructions in new ways. So it requires more tuning before we can extract its full potential.
More to come!
Mocha retweeted
Mocha can visit the web and take screenshots now
Sounds really simple but it's an amazing feature for copying designs
Mailchimp made email complicated.
Square made it transactional.
Mocha made it native.
Why duct-tape tools together when your app can just… send the emails?
Bye 👋 Mailchimp
Bye 👋 Square
Email shouldn't live outside your product…
If they do, you’ll always move more slowly.
Mocha Emails is native.
That changes everything.
