Draftbit Next Beta

Draftbit has opened beta access to Draftbit Next, a rebuilt web app builder aimed at generating dashboards and marketing sites with newer front-end defaults. (community.draftbit.com) Founder and chief executive Brian Luerssen said on October 6, 2025 that the company had spent the prior six months rebuilding the product “from the ground up” with a new builder, cloud sandbox, full source-code editing, and git-style file controls. Draftbit’s current site says the platform now supports web and mobile projects with AI assistance, visual editing, and publishing workflows. (community.draftbit.com) (draftbit.com) The Next beta is being pitched to users on Pro, Team, or Enterprise plans, and Draftbit said beta access would come with LLM usage included during the test period rather than metered credits. A live sign-in page for next.draftbit.com and Draftbit’s marketing site both show the product is active in 2026. (community.draftbit.com) (next.draftbit.com) Under the hood, the stack Draftbit is highlighting tracks the toolchain many React teams adopted over the last 18 months: React 19 went stable on December 5, 2024, Vite 6 shipped on November 26, 2024, and Tailwind CSS v4 shipped on January 22, 2025. shadcn/ui describes itself as open-code React components rather than a packaged component library, which fits teams that want generated code they can keep editing. (react.dev) (vite.dev) (tailwindcss.com) (ui.shadcn.com) That combination points to a specific kind of product: internal dashboards and web apps that need fast scaffolding, editable source code, and a design system that developers can own after generation. Draftbit’s homepage now says users can build “web applications” and “admin dashboards” from one platform, not only the mobile apps the company was known for earlier on. (draftbit.com 1) (draftbit.com 2) Draftbit is also tying the beta to Anthropic’s newest coding model. Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026 and said the model improves on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, while Draftbit’s homepage now lists Claude Opus 4.7 among the AI options available in its builder. (anthropic.com) (draftbit.com) Anthropic’s pitch for Opus 4.7 is long-running coding and agent workflows with less supervision, and Draftbit’s pitch is similar at the product level: prompt for an app, edit visually, inspect the code, and keep iterating in a sandbox. Anthropic also launched Claude Design on April 17, 2026 for prototypes and one-pagers, underscoring how model vendors are pushing beyond chat into interface and workflow generation. (anthropic.com 1) (anthropic.com 2) (draftbit.com) The company’s older documentation and community posts still center on mobile apps, workspaces, and live preview, so Draftbit Next reads less like a small feature update than a broader repositioning toward full-stack web software. The beta keeps the familiar low-code promise, but the ingredients now look much closer to a modern React starter kit than a closed no-code editor. (docs.draftbit.com 1) (docs.draftbit.com 2) (community.draftbit.com)