LAST UPDATED · OCTOBER 22, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a contract between you and CodeVF LLC, a Washington limited liability company doing business as KickStartMVP ("KickStartMVP," "we," "us"). They apply to kickstartmvp.com, the dashboard, our CLI and API, and every app and domain you run with us (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.
If you use the Service for a company or other organization, you confirm you're authorized to accept these Terms for it, and "you" includes that organization.
Section 15 requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration and waives class actions. You can opt out within 30 days, as described there.
You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority where you live) to use the Service. Give us accurate account information and keep it current.
You're responsible for your sign-in credentials and your personal deploy token, and for everything done with them. Anything deployed with your token counts as deployed by you. Keep the token secret; you can rotate it at any time from your dashboard. Tell us right away at hi@kickstartmvp.com if you think your account has been compromised.
If you invite other people to an app, you're responsible for the access you give them and for what they do with it.
KickStartMVP lets you build an app with our AI editor, or deploy and host an app you provide (by upload, our CLI, GitHub, or a deploy prompt run by your own AI tools). We build your code, run it in an isolated container with resource limits (including a cap on how fast it can send data to the internet), and serve it on a URL. To keep the Service available, we also limit how many requests a single visitor can make per second. Apps on the Free plan show a small "Built with KickStartMVP" badge.
The Terminal gives you a shell in your app's isolated workspace sandbox, with internet access, so you can run tools like Claude Code or Codex yourself. You're responsible for what you run there and for any third-party accounts you sign in to; those logins are stored with that app and shared with anyone you've given access to it. Sandboxes have resource limits and are stopped after a period of inactivity.
To keep the Service fast and affordable, an app that gets no visits for 30 minutes may be put to sleep: it's paused, and the next visit wakes it, usually in well under a second. Anything running in the background (scheduled jobs, bots, open connections) pauses while it sleeps. Your built-in database sleeps too while none of your apps is awake, and wakes with the first one. On Plus and Pro and Studio you can keep an app always on.
We're improving the Service constantly, so features, limits, and supported frameworks may change. Features marked beta or early access may be incomplete, and we may change or remove them.
You keep all rights to the code, files, data, and other content you upload, create, or deploy ("Your Content"). You give us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, store, copy, build, modify (when you ask the AI to make changes), run, and serve Your Content only as needed to operate, secure, and support the Service and to comply with law. The license ends when Your Content is deleted from our systems, except for copies in backups that expire on their normal schedule.
You confirm that you have the rights to Your Content and that it, and your use of the Service, doesn't break any law or infringe anyone's rights.
Apps you run are yours to operate. If your app collects personal information, takes payments, or serves the public, you're responsible for its own terms, privacy notice, and legal compliance. We aren't a party to your relationship with your app's users. If you turn on your app's Feedback button, the notes visitors send through it come to you, and how you use and answer them is up to you.
Our staff may access your apps and Your Content when needed to keep the Service running, answer a support request you send, investigate abuse or a security issue, or comply with law.
You can download your source and delete your apps at any time, and download or restore database backups as your plan allows. Keep your own copies of anything important. Backups are a convenience, not a guarantee.
The AI editor sends your prompts and the relevant parts of your code to our AI provider to generate changes. AI output can be wrong, insecure, incomplete, or similar to content generated for others. Review and test what it produces before relying on it, especially for anything involving money, health, security, or personal data. You're responsible for the apps you publish, including the parts the AI wrote.
As between you and us, you own the output the AI generates for you, to the extent any rights exist in it. A best-looking first build may use pictures from public collections such as Wikimedia Commons and Openverse; they keep their own licenses, and the AI credits them on the page. Keep those credits, or replace the pictures. We don't use Your Content to train AI models. AI edits come from a daily allowance that depends on your plan, as does which AI levels you can pick in the editor. On paid plans Fast edits aren't capped per day and a used allowance means edits run at Fast; on the Free plan the allowance covers every level, and once it's used new edits wait for the next day's allowance. All AI edits are rate-limited per hour to prevent automated abuse. A /goal request keeps working in rounds, up to a number of rounds set by your plan, and each round counts as one AI edit; it stops when the AI has checked the goal is met, when your allowance or the hourly limit is reached, when two rounds in a row change nothing, or when you press Stop. We may offer promotional allowances; these are one per account and may be withdrawn if the offer is abused.
Don't use the Service to host or send anything illegal; anything that infringes someone else's intellectual property or privacy; malware, phishing, or spam; content that sexually exploits minors; harassment, threats, or incitement of violence; or deceptive sites that impersonate someone else.
Don't abuse the platform: no crypto mining, attacks on other systems (including port scanning or denial-of-service), attempts to get around resource limits, plan limits, or isolation, access to other customers' apps or data, using the Terminal for anything other than working on your app (such as mining, scanning, proxies, or long-running services), or reselling the Service without our written permission.
We may remove content, suspend apps, or suspend or close accounts that break these rules or put the platform, other customers, or the public at risk. Where practical and lawful, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem.
We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Send notices to our designated agent at hi@kickstartmvp.com with the subject "DMCA Notice." Include your contact information, the work you claim is infringed, the URL of the material, a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and that you're authorized to act for the owner, and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove the material and forward the notice to the customer, who may send a counter-notice. We close the accounts of repeat infringers where appropriate.
Prices and plan limits are shown on the pricing page and are in US dollars. Payments are processed by Stripe.
Paid plans renew automatically. Monthly plans renew every month and annual plans every year, at the then-current price, until you cancel. By subscribing, you authorize us to charge your payment method at the start of each billing period.
We don't offer free trials. If you started a 7-day trial of monthly Pro before October 22, 2026, it runs as agreed: we email you 3 days before it ends; if you don't cancel before it ends, it becomes a paid monthly subscription and your payment method is charged that day; if you cancel during it, you're not charged and your account moves to the Free plan; and if the first payment fails, your account moves to the Free plan right away.
You can cancel any time in Settings → Billing → Manage billing, without contacting us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Your paid features stay on until then, and after that your account moves to the Free plan. Upgrades and plan changes take effect right away, and Stripe prorates the difference.
Payments are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise or where we say otherwise in writing. If you think you were charged by mistake, email us and we'll look at it.
We'll email you at least 30 days before a price increase applies to your subscription, and you can cancel before it takes effect. Prices don't include taxes; you're responsible for any taxes that apply. If a payment fails, we may move your account to the Free plan or pause paid features until it's resolved.
When you buy a domain through KickStartMVP, we register it through our registrar service (Amazon Route 53) with KickStartMVP listed as the registrant, with WHOIS privacy on, and connect it to your app. We hold it for your use for as long as its yearly subscription is paid. If you want the domain registered in your own name at a registrar you choose, email us. Once registry rules allow a transfer (for example, most domains can't be transferred for 60 days after registration) and your domain subscription is paid up, we'll give you what you need to transfer it.
Domain subscriptions are billed yearly and renew automatically until you cancel them in Settings → Billing. A domain fee isn't refundable once the domain is registered. If registration fails, we refund you in full. If a domain subscription ends or a renewal payment fails, we turn off auto-renewal, and the domain may expire and become available for anyone to register.
Annual paid plans include one domain from our free catalog at no charge. It renews free for as long as the plan stays annual and active. If the plan changes to monthly or is cancelled, we'll email you, and the domain then renews at its regular yearly price unless you cancel it first.
Domains are subject to the policies of the registry and ICANN, including the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy. You're responsible for making sure a domain you choose doesn't infringe anyone's trademark.
Some features rely on other companies, such as Stripe for payments, GitHub for repository sync, Google for sign-in, and our AI and infrastructure providers. Their own terms govern your use of their services, and we aren't responsible for them.
You can stop using the Service at any time. You can delete apps from the dashboard, and you can delete your account by emailing us from the address on the account.
We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, don't pay, create a risk for the platform or others, or if the law requires it. If we end the Service altogether, or close an account that hasn't broken these Terms, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice so you can download your data and refund any prepaid, unused time on your plan.
When an account is closed, its apps are taken down and its data is deleted as described in our Privacy Policy. Sections 4 (your responsibilities), 8 (amounts owed), and 12 through 17 survive termination.
THE SERVICE, INCLUDING AI OUTPUT, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DON'T PROMISE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT BACKUPS WILL BE COMPLETE OR RESTORABLE, OR THAT AI OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE. WE DON'T CURRENTLY OFFER AN UPTIME SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, KICKSTARTMVP AND ITS MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AND CONTRACTORS WON'T BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATED TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) $100.
Some jurisdictions don't allow certain of these limits, so they apply to you only as far as the law permits.
You'll defend and indemnify KickStartMVP and its members, employees, and contractors against third-party claims, and the resulting losses and reasonable legal fees, arising from Your Content, the apps you run, or your breach of these Terms or the law. We'll notify you promptly of any such claim and let you control its defense, but we won't let you settle a claim in a way that admits fault by us or binds us without our consent.
Informal resolution. Before filing a claim, email us at hi@kickstartmvp.com with a description of the dispute and what you're asking for. We'll do the same with you. Both sides will try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days.
Arbitration. If we can't resolve it, you and KickStartMVP agree that any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (or its Commercial Arbitration Rules if you use the Service for a business). The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. Hearings may be held by video or in the county where you live. Payment of AAA fees follows the AAA rules. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could.
Exceptions. Either side may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and either side may ask a court for an injunction to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property or unauthorized access to the Service.
No class actions. YOU AND KICKSTARTMVP EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO TAKE PART IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Claims may be brought only on an individual basis. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable for a claim, this arbitration section won't apply to that claim, and it will be decided in court.
Opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing hi@kickstartmvp.com within 30 days after you first accept these Terms (or this version of them), with the subject "Arbitration Opt-Out" and your name and account email. Opting out doesn't affect any other part of these Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 15. Any claim that isn't arbitrated will be heard in the state or federal courts located in the State of Washington, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction.
Changes. We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we'll email you or notify you in the dashboard at least 14 days before it takes effect. If you keep using the Service after that, you accept the updated Terms. Changes don't apply to disputes that arose before they took effect.
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a provision, that isn't a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither side is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control. You agree to receive notices from us electronically, by email or in the dashboard.
You may not use the Service if you're located in a country subject to US embargo or are on a US government list of restricted parties.
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