bicycle

open a folder, bike is a grid. open an html file, bike is the live page. open a video, it plays. open code, you see what changed since you last saved. the file picks the tool.

the extension is the only decision. .md, you write. .mp4, it plays. .mp3, it plays. .png, it renders. .pdf, it opens. .obj, 3D. .html, live page. if it's a file, bike renders it. no mockup, no export, no handoff. when it's done, it's done.

type your email and hit enter. we send a token to your inbox — paste it back. new or returning, it's the same move. that's the whole login.

no passwords, no admin panel that can read your files. the token is your key; email just delivers it, so losing it only takes another email to recover. nothing leaves your machine unless you push it.

home is a grid. every project is a card — the ones on your machine and the ones in the cloud. open one and you're inside it. a card shows its name, its branch, who else is in it, and a thumbnail that is the file itself.

your work lives at you.bicycle.computer, a portfolio that builds itself as you publish — repos, sync status, which folders are live, custom domains, who you've shared with.

press any letter and just think. it's chat, but it acts: claude reads your project, writes files, and builds things right where you are — drafting a page, organizing the folder, making a card from a link you paste. coworker, not oracle.

hold control to speak instead of type. ⌘ enter crystallizes a thought into a file. press space to see the conversation. git, AI, sync, publishing live in the same surface — fork anything public, send a pull-request back, nothing to configure, nothing to install.

the empty grid is where things begin. the gesture picks the medium — no menu, no new-file dialog. double-tap and it's a folder. drag and it's a drawing. hold and it's recording.

the gesture makes an empty file; opening it makes the content. no formats to choose, no templates to pick. the motion is the decision, and the grid fills as you go.

every file has a view — and the view is its thumbnail. no view for a kind of file yet? ask for one. claude writes it into .bike/views and every file of that type renders with it.

the tool that shows a thing is just a file in the folder. flip the eye to fall back to the built-in.

a file is made of nodes the way a folder is made of files. blocks in writing, elements in a page, rules in a stylesheet, shapes in a drawing, keys in data — and every node answers to the same moves: click selects, double-click goes deeper, drag moves, delete removes, ⌘ z undoes.

so there's nothing to learn per format — only what a node is changes. every kind of file edits in place. nothing exports, nothing imports — it's all just the folder.

home, project, file, node — it's one tree. the breadcrumb is where you are — click back through it. esc steps out one level. ← → walk between files in a folder.

⌘ z undoes anything, anywhere — text, drawings, the conversation. ⌘ ⇧ z redoes.

while you think, type a @name or an email. they join the chat and the project — you edit together, live, cursors and all. the bar where you talk to claude is the bar where you bring a person in.

not on bicycle yet? they get an email. when they sign up, they're already in. presence shows who's looking where; you watch each other work, in the same folder, at the same time.

make a project public and it's a website — live at you.bicycle.computer. point your own domain at it. every push updates it.

projects start private. publishing is one toggle; an apex domain brings www. along for free.

you never save, never commit. every change is its own version, with a history you can walk back through. open the project on another machine and it's already there.

it's git underneath — but you never touch it. no add, no push, no conflicts to resolve. when someone you've shared with makes a change, it streams in live and everyone stays on the same main.

the first web browser was also an editor, a collaborative space for everyone. the first NeXT Computer targeted education and gave us the World Wide Web. when you solve for education, you solve for humanity. that's where bike starts.

bike is free for every student and every teacher, software, AI, all of it. the work belongs to them.