orchids.app

Orchids is an AI Fullstack Engineer that lets you chat with AI to build prototypes, apps, and websites that don’t look “AI generated.” It pairs a Framer/Webflow‑level visual editor with a near pixel‑perfect website cloner, and supports importing projects from Lovable, v0, Bolt, or GitHub (with 500k free credits for imports).

TARGET CUSTOMER

Founders, designers, and solo developers; also teams/enterprise buyers.

TIMELINE

• Public launch announcement — July 7, 2025 →

  Introduced Orchids as an AI tool to chat with AI to build apps and websites that don’t look “AI generated.”

• $2M seed round — July 15, 2025 →

  Announced $2M seed with participation from YC, BoxGroup, Transpose Platform, Leonis Capital, and notable angels.

• Launch of Orchids Editor — August 14, 2025 →

  Released a Framer/Webflow‑level visual editor for any app/website.

• Launch of Orchids Cloner — August 26, 2025 →

  Released a near pixel‑perfect website cloner; one‑shots well‑known sites.

• Grok 4 Fast free credits — September 20, 2025 →

  Offered free unlimited credits to all users on Grok 4 Fast model within Orchids.

• Project import + 500k credits — September 22, 2025 →

  Enabled importing from Lovable, v0, Bolt, or GitHub and awarded 500k credits per import.

FINANCIALS

TRACTION

FOUNDERS

PRODUCT–FOUNDER FIT

Kevin Lu consistently frames Orchids around world‑class UI and full‑stack capability, solving the common problem of AI‑looking sites and highlighting benchmark leadership (#1 on UI benchmarks like Design Arena). This positioning matches his repeated comparisons showing Orchids beating other AI builders and focusing on production‑ready frontends.