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Hey HN, My team and I built a tool to scratch our own itch. We were tired of spending the first few days of every new project setting up the same Vue + Laravel boilerplate: writing migrations, models, basic CRUD controllers, and wiring up forms and tables on the frontend.

So we built Codecannon. It’s a web app where you define your data models, columns, and relationships, and it generates a full-stack application for you.

To be clear, the code isn't AI-generated. It's produced deterministically by our own code generators, so the output is always predictable, clean, and follows conventional best practices.

The key difference from other tools is that it’s not a no-code platform you get locked into. When you're done, it pushes a well-structured codebase to your GitHub repo (or you can download a .zip file). You own it completely and can start building your real features on top of it right away.

What it generates: - Laravel Backend: Migrations, models with relationships, factories, seeders, and basic CRUD API endpoints.

    - Vue Frontend: A SPA with PrimeVue components. It includes auth pages, data tables, and create/edit forms for each of your models, with all the state management wired up.

    - Dev Stuff: Docker configs, a CI/CD pipeline starter, linters, and formatters are all included.

We’re in an early alpha and would love to get some honest feedback from the community. Does the generated code look sensible? Are we missing any obvious features? Is this something you would find useful or know anyone who might? Let me know what you think.