Shakespeare is an AI website builder with an unusual architectural choice: it runs on Nostr, a decentralized protocol, rather than requiring a corporate login or account tied to a single company's servers. A developer picks their own AI provider, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, or a local model, and builds a site through chat, with the result running live in the browser as it's generated.
That decentralized, provider-agnostic approach sets it apart from most AI app builders, which typically bundle a specific model and host the result exclusively on their own infrastructure. Source code for a generated site is downloadable, keeping the project in line with its broader open-source, no-lock-in philosophy rather than treating the generated output as something that only works inside Shakespeare's own platform.
It's free to use and open source, appealing specifically to developers who are uncomfortable with how centralized most AI app builders are, even at some cost to the polish and integrated backend services that centralized competitors like Lovable or Base44 offer out of the box.