Connect Backlit as an MCP connector, then ask your assistant to publish the app. Backlit hosts it on its own link with sign-in and saved data, and hands you a URL to share with the people you choose, all without leaving the chat.

Most AI-built apps run only on your screen. Backlit puts your single-page HTML app online on a real link, adds a sign-in allowlist so only the right people can open it, and stores the data they enter. Share the link and they can use it.

You don’t write any auth code. Backlit’s Lens layer gives every private app magic-link, Google, and Microsoft sign-in, gated by an allowlist of emails or a domain pattern. Your app reads the signed-in user with window.backlit.auth.user().

Yes. Backlit’s Ember storage gives each app shared data, a per-user silo isolated by email, and a write-only store for form captures, all region-pinned and available through window.backlit.data without a backend.

Those are build pipelines that host files, you still wire up your own auth and backend, and there’s no per-user data. Backlit hosts a finished single-page app with sign-in and per-user storage already attached, and your assistant sets it up for you. No build step.

Almost never. Building the app with AI and running AI inside the finished app are two different things. Backlit hosts the result of the first and stays out of the second: nothing AI runs in the live app, which is what keeps it fast, private, and $2.50/month. You build with AI; Backlit hosts it.

Each app gets its own storage and each user their own silo. Data is pinned to a region you choose, Australia or the US, and never replicated across regions.

Single-page HTML apps: forms, trackers, planners, dashboards, simple internal tools. It’s not for multi-file apps with a build step, apps that need their own server, or anything that needs AI running at runtime.

It is once the access layer is handled, which is exactly the part fast-built apps get wrong. Backlit provides real sign-in, an allowlist, per-user data isolation, and private-by-default access, so authentication and access control live in the platform instead of being hand-rolled in your app.

Yes. Your app’s data is reachable through Backlit’s MCP, so you can query or export it straight from Claude in plain language: summarise this week’s submissions, export the orders to a spreadsheet, or push new signups into Notion.