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AnyCoder, an open-source web app development environment developed by Hugging Face ML Growth Lead Ahsen Khaliq (@_akhaliq on X), has launched on Hugging Face Spaces.
The tool, now available for all users of the AI code sharing repository Hugging Face, integrates live previews, multimodal input, and one-click deployment — all within a hosted environment, allowing indie creators without much technical expertise, or those working on behalf of clients or large enterprises, to get started “vibe coding” web apps rapidly using the assistance of Hugging Face-hosted AI models.
It also acts therefore as an alternative to services such as Lovable, which also allow users to type in plain English and begin coding apps without having formal programming knowledge.
Free vibe coding available to all, powered by Kimi K2
Khaliq built AnyCoder as a personal project within the Hugging Face ecosystem and as “one of the first vibe coding apps” to support Moonshot’s powerful yet small and efficient Kimi K2 model launched last week.
AnyCoder’s main functionality allows users to enter plain-text descriptions to generate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These are displayed in a live preview pane and can be edited or directly deployed. It also includes example templates for todo apps, dashboards, calculators, and more.
Screenshot of AnyCoder on Hugging Face
Built entirely using Hugging Face’s open-source Python development environment Gradio, AnyCoder allows users to describe applications in plain English or upload images, and instantly generate working frontend code.
Khaliq built AnyCoder as a personal project within the Hugging Face ecosystem.
In a direct message conversation with this VentureBeat journalist, he described it as a “free open source vibe coding app” and “one of the first vibe coding apps” to support Chinese startup Moonshot’s powerful yet small and efficient open source AI model Kimi K2 launched last week.
However, he also noted that multiple open source models are supported and users can switch between them with a dropdown menu on the control sidebar on the left pane, including:
Moonshot Kimi-K2
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek R1
Baidu’s ERNIE-4.5-VL
MiniMax M1
Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B
SmolLM3-3B
GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking
Code from UI images, web …