MANUAL :THE STUDIO, END TO END READ TIME :ABOUT THREE MINUTES COST :₹0 — BYOK FOREVER

One key in. One file out.

Shilp is a wheel, not a factory: it runs your idea once through a mould and hands you a finished app as a single HTML file. Here is the entire workflow, honestly written down.

[FLOW]

The four steps

[ 01 ]GET A KEY

Make one free key at a key provider

Keys are free to create and come with generous free tiers. Sign up, open the keys page, and copy one. That's the only step that happens outside Shilp.

NO CARD NEEDED~2 MINUTES

[ 02 ]PASTE

Paste it into your app file

The builder keeps the key in the file it is pasted into — nothing on our side, nothing in the cloud. Clear it any day by regenerating the key at the provider.

LOCAL ONLYlocalStorage

[ 03 ]SAY IDEA

Say the idea in your language

Type it like you'd say it. Romanized Hindi counts; Tamil, Bangla, Marathi count; plain English counts as well. Shilp matches your words to a mould with listed shapes.

22 LANGS6 MOULDS

[ 04 ]download

Watch, test, download — walk away

The build streams live; you test every button on the same screen. When it looks right, save the file. It works offline, forever, on any phone.

ONE FILEWORKS OFFLINE

[KEYS]

Providers your key can come from

PROVIDER	FREE TIER	MODELS	SIGN-UP
OpenRouter recommended	YES — big	hundreds of models, one key	openrouter.ai/keys
Google Gemini	YES — big	gemini flash & pro family	aistudio.google.com
DeepSeek	PAID — very cheap	strong code & reasoning	platform.deepseek.com
Ollama (local)	FREE — offline	local models, no internet	ollama.com

Storage, in one line: your key is saved in the localStorage of the app file you pasted it into, on your device only. Shilp's studio holds no keys, sees no builds, and stores nothing. Delete the key from the file, or rotate the key at the provider, and it's gone.

Why bring your own key at all? Because a subscription is rent — and a key is ownership. With your own key you choose the provider, model and spend; the free tiers cover weeks of building; and your app file never phones home to a middleman. This is what keeps the whole wheel at ₹0.

[SAFETY]

Keys — handle with care

SAFEST

Use your own key in your own file — apps you build for yourself, on your phone, in your browser.

SHARED

Sharing the app? Rotate the key first, or publish the app with the key slot left empty for the new user to paste their own.

RULE

Never paste a key into an app shared by someone you don't trust. Free tiers make every key cheap to rotate — rotate often.

[QUESTIONS]

Short answers

Does Shilp track me?

No. There are no analytics scripts, no pixels, no external fonts beyond typefaces. The studio is static pages — what you read is what runs.

Which languages does the idea box take?

Twenty-two Indian languages plus English. Romanized typing works everywhere — "dukaan ka hisaab" and "दुकान का हिसाब" build the same ledger.

What exactly lands in the file?

HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the app — and, only if you pasted one, your key in localStorage. No network calls back to Shilp. Open it in any text editor to audit.

My free tier ran out — what now?

Rotate providers: DeepSeek is extremely cheap per build, and Ollama works fully offline on a desktop with no billing at all. Apps already built keep working — they don't need the key.

Wheel's warm. Your turn.

Pick a mould, paste a key, say the idea. The file is yours before the kettle boils.

SEE THE MOULDS →