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Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity

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Why This Matters

OpenGravity offers a lightweight, browser-based IDE that mimics Google Antigravity's UI with enhanced privacy and autonomous capabilities. Its zero-install design and reasoning-enabled agent make it a promising tool for developers seeking a more private and interactive coding environment, especially amidst limitations of existing platforms.

Key Takeaways

OpenGravity

The zero-install agentic workspace.

An experimental, lightweight, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) recreation of the Google Antigravity UI. OpenGravity provides a browser-based, reasoning-enabled IDE with a live xterm.js terminal powered by the WebContainer API. It features direct local file system sync and a proactive autonomous agent capable of orchestrating basic software engineering tasks, running shell commands, and editing files in real-time. It’s currently a work-in-progress though. It works for basic coding tasks, but consider this the "Alpha" version.

Built in pure HTML/CSS/JS for maximum speed and zero installation.

Origin

I was using Google Antigravity quite intensively for a load of projects I was making.

Very quickly, I got hit with rate limits.

Google Antigravity has become over the past few months quite infamous for this, and doesnt seem to be improving.

I was thinking of switching to a CLI, or a vscode based program instead, but I really love the Antigravity UI.

So I went to Google AI Studio, and put in a LOAD of screenshots, and with a load of interesting prompt engineering techniques, gemini 3.1 pro put together a beautiful clone (if I may say so myself).

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