19 years in the making
I've spent 19 years watching brilliant people get stuck in the same place. First in enterprises, leading the builds of some of the largest products in the world — including Prime Video for Amazon. Then in agencies, watching founders with genuinely great ideas spend months wrestling with infrastructure before they'd written a single line of the thing they actually wanted to build.
And now, just when AI was supposed to make everything easier, I'm watching it happen all over again. Someone vibe codes a beautiful frontend in a weekend, feels like they've cracked it; then spends the next month figuring out what they've actually built and trying to turn it into something real.
The backend problem never went away. It just moved.
So I built the platform I always wished existed.
From idea to live API, before your coffee gets cold
Anythink gives you the backend first. A real one. Auto-generated REST APIs the moment you save your data model. Built-in user management, Stripe payments, workflow automation, search, content management, and enterprise-grade access control — all without touching infrastructure.
Whether you're writing the frontend yourself, prompting it into existence with Claude, Gemini or Codex, or handing it to a developer — the foundation is already there, ready to scale.
No lock-in. Ever.
One of the first questions we get is about lock-in; and it's the right question to ask, especially if you've ever found yourself stuck in a tool you can't easily leave.
Anythink is built around the opposite philosophy. You use your own Stripe account via Stripe Connect: your payments, your relationship, your data. You can push data in and pull data out freely at any point via the API. We're also building git sync for your schemas and workflows, so everything lives where you can control it.
We don't limit you by features as you grow: our free tier includes everything, with lower transaction fees on premium plans. The goal is simple: help you get up and running fast, then scale to millions, without the need for a growing stack of subscriptions.
Built on tools we trust
We didn't build Anythink in isolation. We built it on the shoulders of tools and platforms we genuinely respect — and we want to give credit where it's due.
Stripe is natively embedded into Anythink as part of our partnership. You connect your own Stripe account and accept payments without writing a single line of payment code or spinning up a separate service. It just works.
Meilisearch powers Anythink's built-in search: fast, reliable, and zero configuration headaches. Your users get great search experiences without ever thinking about the infrastructure behind it.
Kubernetes powers the infrastructure behind every Anythink project: meaning enterprise-grade scalability and resilience from day one, automatically provisioned, zero ops overhead.
DigitalOcean provides rock solid, reliable infrastructure without the complexity and cost of the hyperscalers. When you're promising zero ops overhead to your users, you need infrastructure you can trust completely.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
We also want to acknowledge the platforms that inspired us to go further.
Supabase set a great benchmark for what a modern backend platform could look like: open, developer-friendly, and genuinely useful. We built Anythink to go further, adding workflow automation, payments, content management, multiple data views, and enterprise-grade access control in one place.
Firebase proved that developers would embrace backend-as-a-service if it was fast and frictionless. We took that spirit and built something that scales beyond the limitations that Firebase users often hit as their products grow.
Airtable showed the world that non-technical people could manage data beautifully. Anythink takes that same approachability and pairs it with a real API layer, proper access control, and the kind of infrastructure serious applications need.
Directus demonstrated that a headless CMS and data platform could be genuinely powerful. Anythink builds on that vision with a more complete platform: payments, workflows, user management and search all included out of the box.
n8n is excellent workflow automation, and we integrate with it natively. Anythink's built-in workflow engine, doesn't have all the pre-built connectors yet, but goes enterprise-grade, with your data processing happening where your data lives, with no per-execution pricing watching the clock as your automations run.
Free to start. No credit card required.
The same robust infrastructure that used to take a team of engineers is now accessible from day one, free. We're seeing 40x faster development with fewer bugs across the projects being built on Anythink, and we're just getting started.
Coming soon: serverless function hosting, AI agent infrastructure, and git sync for schemas and workflows.
If you've ever spent more time on infrastructure than on the thing you actually wanted to build, Anythink was built for you.
