Open Tikku
Head to the sandbox and sign in. You land on your dashboard — your home base, where your apps and Drive live.
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Getting started with Tikku
The short version: open Tikku, chat your first widget into being, make it yours, and save it. Here's how the pieces fit together.
Getting started
Four steps to your first app
Chat your first widget
Tell the builder what you want — “a water-drinking tracker”, “a dice roller”, “a pomodoro timer”. It builds the real, running widget and drops it on your dashboard.
Edit it
Refine it in chat, or open it directly — tweak the layout, the colours, the logic, the code. Make it fit the way you actually think.
Save & keep it
Save it to your Drive. It's a file now: reopen it any time, fork it into something new, or share it so a friend can remix it.
Core concepts
The handful of ideas that make Tikku click
Widgets vs Canvas
A widget is a dashboard tile — small, useful, made of UI. A canvas cart is code plus graphics plus audio on a real canvas, for games, toys and generative art. Start with a widget; reach for a cart when you want pixels and sound.
The editors
Hands-on makers for each craft: a pixel editor for sprites and animations, a tracker for tunes and instruments, and a code editor for everything else. Open a file and the right editor opens with it.
The Drive & files
Everything you make is a real file in your Drive — apps, sprites, tunes, palettes, carts. Files are yours to reopen, reuse, fork and share. The Drive is the through-line that keeps your work alive.
Sharing & remixing
Publish an app or share a file, and others can open it, fork it, and build on it. Remixing is first-class — most good things start as someone else's good thing.
Capabilities
What your apps can do
Apps reach for capabilities when they need to remember things. You don't wire up a backend — you just use them.
- kvsimple key/value storage for small bits of state
- sqla real SQL database per app for structured data
- blobbinary/file storage for images, audio and more
These docs are growing. We're filling in deeper guides as Tikku settles — for now, the fastest way to learn it is to open the sandbox and make something small.