PromptUI — Idea to App

Start a PromptUI build from VS Code. You describe the app here; PromptUI builds it in your browser, which this extension opens for you.

• Status bar → click PromptUI (bottom right) — one click, type your idea
• Command palette → "PromptUI: Build an App from an Idea (opens in browser)" — type your idea
• Right-click selected text → "PromptUI: Build an App from Selection (opens in browser)" — a spec in a comment, a README paragraph, a TODO

New here? Run PromptUI: Get Started from the command palette (or Help → Get Started) for the walkthrough. Prefer no status bar item? Turn off promptui.statusBar.enabled; the other entry points keep working.

75 free credits on signup, no card. Failed builds are never charged.

What this extension does and does not do

It is a launcher, not an in-editor builder. Being straight about that:

Everything after the browser opens happens on promptui.co.

Privacy

The text you provide is sent to https://promptui.co/api/extension/handoff in an HTTPS POST body, and the browser is opened with only a short-lived, single-use id in the URL (/?handoff=<id>).

This matters because URLs are not private: they are written to browser history, corporate proxy logs, analytics tools and referrer headers. Nothing you select is ever placed in the URL. The id expires in 30 minutes and stops working the moment the builder page reads it.

If promptui.co cannot be reached — or replies that its handoff store is unavailable — no handoff is created: your text is copied to your clipboard and the builder opens empty so you can paste it. Nothing is ever placed in the URL, on this path or any other. (On a timeout or a server error the request may already have left your machine; the extension cannot know, so it does not claim otherwise. What it will not do is fall back to putting your text in a link.)

The first time you run a command, the extension tells you that the text will be uploaded and asks you to confirm.

Telemetry

The extension reports anonymous events so we can tell whether it is being used and whether it leads to a working app.

Sent by the extension: extension activated, command invoked, handoff failed, welcome notification shown, walkthrough opened. Recorded on the server for the same anonymous install id: handoff created, handoff redeemed, and — if the prompt goes on to start a build — build started, build completed, build failed.

Each carries only the extension version, your VS Code version, the platform name (darwin / win32 / linux), which of the two commands ran, which PromptUI affordance you clicked — one of command_palette, status_bar, walkthrough, welcome_notification, editor_context_menu, and nothing else — the character count of the prompt, and, for a build, an opaque build id, whether it passed, and how long it took.

Never included: source code, file contents, file names, paths, workspace or repository names, and the prompt text itself. The server re-checks every field against a fixed allowlist and drops anything else, and the build events are recorded server-side against an opaque id — the extension never sends them and never learns anything about the build.

Nothing is sent when VS Code telemetry is off (telemetry.telemetryLevel set to anything other than all). You can also turn off just this extension's reporting with promptui.telemetry.enabled.