Managing your Genie projects

Every app you build in Genie lives inside a project. When you describe what you want to create, Genie generates a fully working app — that generated app is your project. Each project has its own URL, chat history, settings, and optionally a connected cloud backend. You can have as many projects as your plan allows, and each one is managed independently.

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Creating a project

You create a project directly from the Genie home screen by typing a description of the app you want to build into the prompt input and pressing Enter (or clicking Generate). Genie reads your description, generates the app, and opens it in the project view.

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The project view

Once your project is created, the project view is where you spend most of your time. It has two main areas side by side: the chat panel on the left and the live preview on the right.

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Chat history

Every message you send and every response Genie gives is stored in the chat history for that project. You can scroll back through the entire conversation to review past changes, understand why something was built a certain way, or pick up where you left off after a break.

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Rating a response

Once Genie finishes a response, rate it with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down right on the message, and optionally add a short note explaining why. Click your rating again to clear it, or click the other thumb to change your mind — switching from a dislike to a like drops any note you left, since a complaint shouldn’t carry over as praise. Anyone who can see the project can rate a response; each person’s rating is their own.

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Watching a build in progress

While Genie is building or updating your app, the chat panel shows a live progress card listing every step of the build — planning, coding, and publishing. Click any step to open its details: what it did, which files changed, and — if it failed — why, along with an Ask Genie to fix this button that retries with the failure reason already filled in. Once a build finishes, Genie also shows a short summary of what changed. While that summary is being written, the progress card’s status line reads “Writing your summary…” rather than the generic “Finishing things up…” — so you can tell coding is done and Genie is just wrapping up. What I built and Not built yet appear as a compact preview — click Show more to expand the full summary — so any to-do suggestions or Genie’s next-step recommendation stay visible right underneath instead of getting pushed down the page.

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Refreshing the preview

Once a build finishes, a small See current version button appears floating over the live preview — and, while the preview is still loading, on its placeholder too — so you can pull in the latest result immediately. It disappears on its own once the preview is up to date, and reappears the next time a follow-up prompt changes your app.

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Chat mode

Sometimes you want to ask a question instead of asking for a change — “what does this component do?”, “how would I add authentication?”, or “which fields should this form have?”. Genie automatically recognizes when you’re chatting or asking a question rather than requesting a build, and answers directly in the chat panel instead of starting a rebuild. There’s nothing to toggle — just ask naturally, and no credits are spent on a rebuild you didn’t ask for. Genie’s answer isn’t always plain text — when it makes sense to offer you a choice, it renders a clickable card right in the chat instead of a paragraph you have to answer in your own words: a button to confirm an action, a list to pick one option from, or a checklist where you can tick as many choices as apply and add your own note. See Interactive answers for the full rundown.

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The Genie AI panel

Click the Genie AI handle beside your live preview to open the full workspace AI in a panel next to your app, without leaving the project. It’s the same assistant as the command palette and workspace chat, so anything it can do there — create or update projects, check credits, manage members — it can do from here too. The panel holds one ongoing conversation for the project — there’s no switcher inside it. Every hand-off into the panel, whether from Continue with Genie AI, an Ask Genie button, or the command palette, continues that same conversation instead of starting a new one, so context is never split across threads. To browse your other conversations or start a fresh one, use the workspace AI from the sidebar or command palette. That conversation is shared with your whole team — when a teammate opens the same project, they land in the same thread instead of starting their own, so nobody has to catch up on what already happened before they can help. On mobile, the Genie AI tab is the primary way to work on a project. On both mobile and desktop, the project’s own build chat — separate from the Genie AI panel — is a secondary, admin-only view, reachable from the Genie AI tab’s header.

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Who else is here

A project is shared — everyone in your workspace can open it. The Genie AI tab shows a small badge naming who else currently has the project open: one other person’s avatar and name, a pill listing several people once it gets crowded (“+N more”), or nothing at all if you’re the only one there right now.

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Editing text directly in the preview

You can click on any text in the live preview and edit it directly, without sending a new prompt. This is useful for quick label changes, button copy tweaks, and headline adjustments. For simple text replacements — headings, labels, button copy — Genie applies the edits without running an AI generation. The update lands in seconds and uses no credits. If an edit touches text that is generated from a database or an external source, Genie routes that part through the AI pipeline as a normal prompt. To leave edit mode without applying any changes, click Cancel or press Escape.

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Adding images and videos to your app

You can include an image or video in your project by dropping it directly into the project chat. Drag a file — a logo, a hero image, a product photo, or a background video — into the prompt input field and describe what you want Genie to do with it. For example:

• “Use this as the hero background image”
• “Add this logo to the navigation bar”
• “Use this video as the landing page background”

Genie saves the file into your project’s public folder and references it in the generated code. You don’t need to host the file separately or copy a URL — the asset deploys with your app automatically. You can also upload images and videos in bulk through the workspace chat. Open the command palette with ⌘K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows), choose Upload images & videos, or ask the Genie workspace AI directly. A drag-and-drop card lets you publish multiple files into a chosen project at once.

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Project URL

Each project gets a unique URL that you can use to open it directly. You can find this URL in Settings under the General tab, or simply copy it from your browser’s address bar when you are viewing the live app. If your project is public, this URL works for anyone — no login required. On paid plans you can also connect a custom domain, so your app lives at an address you own. See Publish and share your app for details.

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Remixing a project

If you are viewing a public project that the owner has made remixable, you will see a Remix button in the project view. Clicking it creates a copy of that project in your own account — including all of its generated code — so you can build on top of it with your own prompts. If you are not signed in when you click Remix, Genie will redirect you to the login page first, then complete the remix once you are authenticated.

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Rolling back to a previous version

Every change Genie deploys is saved as a version you can return to. If a recent update didn’t go the way you wanted, you can restore your live app to exactly how it looked at an earlier point.

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Browser AI agents

If you use a browser with a built-in AI assistant — such as Gemini in Chrome or Copilot in Edge — that assistant can work with your open project directly. It can send a prompt to Genie on your behalf and check whether Genie is still busy, without you needing to type into the chat yourself.

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Next steps