Our story
In Mumbai, Lagos, Jakarta, Manila — the first computer for a kid getting into code is a phone. And every "modern" coding tool today assumes a desktop. We're building the one that doesn't.
Why we exist
The AI coding boom of 2024-2026 happened almost entirely on desktop. Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Replit Agent, Windsurf, Bolt — all great products, all desktop-first. That's a reasonable assumption in San Francisco. It's the wrong assumption almost everywhere else.
The numbers we keep coming back to
Software developers globally per GitHub's 2024 numbers — projected to hit 45M by 2030.
Developers in India alone including students and self-taught (NASSCOM, IBEF) — growing > 25% YoY.
Of Indian Gen-Z and Millennial developers are smartphone-first. They code in college on a shared family laptop and continue on their phone at home.
These developers aren't poorly served. They're unserved. Acode and Termux are local-only text editors. Pydroid runs Python locally with no AI and no cloud sandboxes. Replit's mobile app is read-only. Cursor doesn't ship Android. There is no Cursor-like AI code editor on a phone — until now.
What we believe
Soft keyboards, Android lifecycle quirks, Play Store billing rules, on-device model size constraints. Every detail compounds. We've shipped 28 sprints over six months getting these right.
Not "5 free runs then pay" — that's a paywall in a t-shirt. Free OffCoder ships with on-device AI (Qwen-Coder + Phi-mini via fllama) and a local JS runtime. Code on the bus, code in airplane mode. Don't pay until you want cloud-class features.
The market we're building for has the highest concentration of the user we want to serve. Win there, then expand.
Where we are
The full stack — Flutter mobile, Node/TypeScript backend, Postgres + Redis, Docker-isolated runtime sandboxes, Stripe billing with full audit trail, Google + GitHub + GitLab + Bitbucket + LinkedIn OAuth, admin dashboard — is built and tested. We're in the launch-prep phase: legal review, Play Store assets, production deployment.
Bootstrapped, pre-seed. No outside capital yet — that constraint forced product clarity.
Where we're going
Legal review, Play Store assets, production deployment.
Via Play Store. Tier 1 capacity is 2,000 monthly active users at launch.
Scaling to 10k monthly active users within six months.
iOS and global expansion follow. Pricing is two parallel tracks (Managed AI + BYOK) so users can pick their AI relationship — we never lock-in.
Get in touch
Hiring, partnerships, press, security — pick the right address on the contact page. Or email hello@offcoder.com and we'll route it.