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You don’t need a complicated setup to get your first app online. In this clip, Karthik Puvvada shows how he used AI to build our #HotAppSummer Challenge site, then deployed it live in seconds using Netlify Drop. No account. No configuration. Just drag, drop, and share. Sometimes the fastest path from idea to URL is also the simplest.

AI agents are becoming real users of your API, and most services weren't designed with them in mind. Agents authenticate, handle errors, interpret responses, and decide whether your service is worth relying on. That experience is hard to see and harder to measure. So we built a way to measure it. Today we're launching AXIS (Agent Experience Index Score): an open source framework for scoring how well APIs and services work with AI agents. It runs a defined set of scenarios against a real endpoint and produces a structured score across dimensions like discoverability, error handling, and response clarity. A few things that matter to us: It's open source under the MIT license, published as an npm package and runnable in any environment. It was created by Netlify and is being developed in the open with founding contributors, the first services to run the benchmark and publish their results. Scores aren't pass/fail. They're a baseline and a direction to improve in. The story behind AXIS is live today in O'Reilly Radar. If you build or maintain an API, AXIS gives you a clear way to see how agents experience it. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gR4NYxj6 Explore AXIS: https://axis.run Star the repo: https://lnkd.in/gYeCvjSY

Here's a #HotAppSummer build for anyone stuck at the gate watching the boarding time slip! ✈️☀️ Check out Dana's Terminal B, a pocket arcade of airport mini-games to kill the wait: tap-fast boarding, a memory sequence, a baggage match, and layover trivia, all tracked on a live departures-board leaderboard. No login, just pick a flight and play! This is surely the perfect companion for your next delay. What are you building today? Try it 👉 https://lnkd.in/gTFSnmxM Join the challenge 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8ikcv6R

A #HotAppSummer build for dog lovers. 🐶 Want to know what your dog is trying to tell you? This app from Dana Lawson helps decode your pup’s behavior through video uploads and guided questions, translating common canine signals into insights about what they may be feeling, needing, or trying to communicate. It's a fun project for anyone who’s ever wished their dog could talk! Check it out 👉 https://lnkd.in/g7QQJe_E Join the challenge 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8ikcv6R

Astro 7 just shipped, and it's supported on Netlify from day one. This release is all about speed. A rewritten Rust compiler, a new Rust-powered Markdown and MDX pipeline, and Vite 8 with its Rolldown bundler combine for builds that are 15 to 61% faster, with some sites building more than twice as fast. For teams deploying on Netlify, the standout is the new experimental CDN cache provider. Instead of holding cached responses in memory, it pushes your Astro route caching directives down to Netlify's edge network. Cache hits get served straight from the CDN without invoking your function at all. Spin up an Astro 7 project on Netlify today! https://lnkd.in/gSbRDatW

A #HotAppSummer build honoring Juneteenth. ✊🏾 Dana built a tribute to the holiday and the history behind it: the arrival of Union General Gordon Granger in Galveston on June 19, 1865, and the reading of General Order No. 3 that finally brought news of emancipation to the last enslaved African Americans in Texas. The site walks through that history, the symbolism of the Juneteenth flag, the culinary traditions, and a community wall for shared reflections. It's a thoughtful, well-researched piece of work. Take some time with it! 👉 https://lnkd.in/dMq_ZPkX Join 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8ikcv6R

Your agents can deploy to Netlify without an account. There's no signup, no login, and no credentials needed upfront, which is exactly what an agent needs when it's spinning something up on the fly. This is part of our ongoing work on Agent Experience. https://lnkd.in/ga_fKP2i

A #HotAppSummer build for the fashion-curious. 🎨☀️ Dana built HueForm: upload a natural-light portrait and it gives you a full seasonal color analysis — your season, undertone, best shades, neutrals, metals, and styling notes. The "what colors actually suit me" question, answered in one clean studio view. Find your color lane. What are you building this weekend? Try it 👉 https://lnkd.in/gXzed_y8 Join the challenge 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8ikcv6R

This #HotAppSummer build is a cold one! 🍁☀️ Dana built Am I Canadian?, riffing on Canada's recent Bill C-3 citizenship changes. Punch in your family's Canadian ancestry and birth date and it walks you through whether you might qualify, then points you toward the official government resources to dig in further. Poutine, hockey, Rush, and a path back to your maple heritage, all in one. It's a fun one. What are you building today? Try it 👉 https://lnkd.in/gXGhU98X Join the challenge 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8ikcv6R

Week 3 of #HotAppSummer winners are here! ☀️ The challenge: ship an app a day in June, built on Netlify, and tag us. Three weeks in, the community keeps delivering builds that are sharper, sillier, and more useful than the last. Three stood out this week, and each is getting 3,000 Netlify credits. 🌼 QR Studio by Abdul Salam — a slick, all-in-one QR generator covering Wi-Fi, vCard, email, and location, with custom colors, logos, gradients, and SVG export. The kind of clean utility you'll actually bookmark. https://lnkd.in/gxHH7E-A 🌼 Le Chaton Fat by Nicolas Grenié — a playful, beautifully executed little web toy with a big sense of humor. Exactly the kind of "built it because it's fun" energy this challenge celebrates. https://lnkd.in/gtVXmDVG 🌼 HotAppSummer Widget by Gerrit — a widget that links all your shipped apps into one network so people discover your other builds, with a Netlify Agent Runner that can install it for you. Built by the challenge's most prolific shipper, for the whole community. https://lnkd.in/g4xz-25H Congratulations to all three! Hot App Summer is nearly done, but there's still time: ship, tag us, and you could close it out as a final winner. Start your streak 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8ikcv6R