Turbofy's answer

Turbofy is for people who already work with AI coding agents and have run into the wall that comes after the code is written.

Digital agencies and freelance developers building client applications on fixed budgets, who can't absorb unpredictable credit overruns and need to hand clients a working URL rather than a repository.

Small product and ops teams inside companies — the people who build the internal tool nobody's IT department has time for, and who need it to run somewhere legitimate, with real access control and audit trails.

Technical founders and solo builders shipping their first version fast without wanting to configure infrastructure they'll have to maintain later.

Makerkit.dev's answer:

Indie Hackers and Companies who want to launch quickly, without compromising on quality.

Turbofy's answer

Turbofy runs on AWS in different regions. Agent integration is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is how Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and Codex connect to a workspace. The frontend and app runtime are built in TypeScript and React.

Makerkit.dev's answer:

Makerkit uses Next.js 15 (App Router), Supabase, React.js, Typescript and Stripe.

Turbofy's answer

Turbofy doesn't sell you tokens. Every other AI app builder resells inference at a markup, so the more you iterate, the more you pay — and their business model quietly rewards your debugging loops. Turbofy runs on the coding agent you already pay for: Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT or Codex connect over MCP, and you build until it's right at no extra cost.

What those agents build then gets somewhere real to live. A managed database, user authentication, file storage, server-side automation flows, a full GraphQL API and hosting on a live URL — all inside one cloud workspace, in the browser, with unlimited collaborators. No local setup, no zip files emailed around, no version confusion.

Everything runs in European data centres and is GDPR-compliant by default, which makes it usable inside a company rather than only on a developer's laptop.

Makerkit.dev's answer:

Makerkit stands out by offering a truly modular architecture built with Turborepo, where core features like auth, billing, and notifications live in their own packages for better maintainability.

While most starters lock you into specific patterns or providers, Makerkit gives you flexibility with a multi-account system supporting both B2B and B2C scenarios, provider-agnostic billing, and edge-ready deployment options.

Beyond the basics, it includes production-ready features like multi-factor auth, real-time notifications, and team permissions - all built with Supabase, TypeScript, React Query, and modern tooling to make development a genuine pleasure.

Turbofy's answer

Against Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Replit: they meter your thinking. You buy credits, they run out mid-project, and you either top up or stop. Turbofy has no inference markup at all — you bring your own agent subscription, and we charge for what you ship, not for how much you iterated to get there. Costs stay predictable, which matters enormously for agencies and freelancers working to a fixed project price.

Against building with an agent alone: an AI agent on your machine produces a folder. Turbofy gives that output a database, auth, a URL and a team. Your colleagues open a link instead of unzipping an attachment, and there's exactly one live version.

Against Supabase, Firebase or a custom stack: those are backends you still have to assemble, configure and maintain. Turbofy provisions the whole layer — schema, API, auth, storage, flows, hosting — from the first prompt.

Against everyone, if you're in Europe: EU data residency and GDPR compliance are built in, not an enterprise upsell.

Makerkit.dev's answer:

While other starters give you basic auth and a dashboard, Makerkit provides a genuinely modular foundation with the real features SaaS products need - like multi-factor auth, team permissions, real-time notifications, and provider-agnostic billing, all organized in clean, maintainable packages using Turborepo.

You get a first-class developer experience with TypeScript, React Query, and modern tooling, plus the flexibility to support both B2B and B2C scenarios, different payment providers, and edge deployment options.

Best of all, Makerkit is actively maintained with regular updates and responsive support, so you're building on a foundation that grows with your needs rather than painting yourself into a corner.

Turbofy's answer

Turbofy is built by GraphApi.io GmbH, a small team of product enthusiasts that spent years building custom cloud applications for clients. The same pattern kept repeating: the interesting part — the product itself — took a fraction of the time, while the unglamorous scaffolding around it consumed most of the budget.

When AI coding agents arrived, that imbalance got worse rather than better. Agents became extraordinary at producing working software in minutes, but everything they built still landed on someone's laptop with nowhere to run. Meanwhile the platforms promising to solve this were quietly metering every prompt, so teams started rationing their own iteration.

Turbofy is the answer to both problems: give the agents you already pay for a real place to build, and don't take a cut of their thinking.