About Foundry
Foundry turns a request written in plain words into a working web app, tests it in a real browser and hosts it privately for the person who asked.
Who makes it
Foundry is made by Simkins & Elgazar LLC, a Virginia limited liability company in Fairfax, Virginia, founded by Ahmed Elgazar and Maximilian Simkins. The company's own site is simkinselgazar.com.
How a build works
- You describe the app. As you type, Foundry reads the request and shows its price: a small app, an app with lists and records, or a big app. It says so before you build when a request needs something a browser app cannot have, such as its own server.
- Foundry plans the app and writes a checklist of what it must do, then writes the code.
- Chrome taps and types through a test of every item on the checklist. What fails goes back to the builder, and the build page shows every step as it happens.
- If you ask for it, Foundry also runs its checks on your own phone or computer before the app is published; you can skip that when it comes.
- The app appears under My apps at its own private address. You can open it, install it, download it as one file or as its source, change it with another sentence, or share a link.
A build that does not end in a working app gives its tokens back. Six real apps and the requests that made them show what comes out.
What it runs on
This site and the servers that build and host your apps run on Amazon Web Services. Sign-in, the database and Foundry's server code run on Supabase. The AI models are reached through OpenRouter, and payments go through Stripe. The privacy policy says what each of them receives.
Contact
Write to hello@simkinselgazar.com and a person will answer. The support page covers most questions.