Startup Adaptive Computer wants non-programmers to be using full-featured apps that they’ve created themselves, simply by entering a text prompt into Adaptive’s no-code web-app platform. To be certain, this isn’t about the computer itself or any hardware — despite the company’s name. The startup currently only builds web apps. For every app it builds, Adaptive Computer’s engine handles creating a database instance, user authentication, file management, and can create apps that include payments (via Stripe), scheduled tasks, and AI features such as image generation, speech synthesis, content analysis, and web search/research. Besides taking care of the back-end database and other technical details, Adaptive apps can work together. For instance, a user can build a file-hosting app and the next app can access those files. Founder Dennis Xu likens this as more like an “operating system” rather than a single Web app. He says the difference between more established products and his startup is that the others were originally geared toward making programming easier for programmers. “We’re building for the everyday person who is interested in creating things to make their own lives better.”