Your kid builds the program. The AI only makes one block.
Bloqy is a block-coding workshop for ages 9–14. When your kid is truly stuck, Forge, our AI helper, makes one small block they can open and inspect, then stops. The rest is theirs.
Free for one learner. No payment to start. Works best on a laptop, desktop, or tablet.
Why it worksThe problem
Telling an AI to build your app is a very fast way to learn nothing. It decides what the parts are, what they’re called and how they talk to each other, then hands you the finished thing. That works right up until it doesn’t.
What the parts are
You can name the app. You can’t name one piece inside it, because you never had to decide there was a piece.
How they fit together
Wiring the parts up is the actual skill. That’s the step that happened off-screen, in one go, without you.
Why it broke
Fixing something you didn’t design is guessing. So you paste the error back in and ask for another finished thing.
You can’t learn to build by watching something else build.
The other problem
The rest of it is that this stuff gets described as far harder than it is. Abstraction, composition, inheritance — those are the words people quit over, and every one of them is a plain idea with an intimidating name bolted on.
- Abstraction
- Name a messy chunk once, then use the name and forget the mess. That’s exactly what forging a block is.
- Composition
- Build big things out of small things you already trust. That’s the whole workspace, and you can open any of it.
- Inheritance
- Start from something that already works and add the bit that’s different, instead of building it twice.
None of this is hard. Some of it is just badly introduced.
What you do instead
Lessons here are problems, not tutorials. You get a palette of parts, an empty workspace and something to make happen — and how you get there is yours. When the palette really can’t do it, you describe the part you’re missing and the forge (Bloqy’s AI helper) casts exactly one block, then stops. What you practice is the bit that carries over to any language you ever touch: breaking a problem into pieces, working out how they fit, and naming what each one does.
Palette
- Motion
- Pen
- Looks
- Control
- Sensing
- Operators
- Variables
Mine
- roof
- zigzag
+ forge a block
Workspace
The gold block is the only one this kid invented. They snapped it on themselves — the forge handed it over and stopped there.
Stage
Forge
Closed until you open it. Describe a block you wish you had and it asks you questions.
Forge a block
What your kid does
01
You get a problem
Not a tutorial to copy out. “Make it draw a square.” Solve it however you want — if you find a way we didn’t expect, you’re right and our checklist is wrong.
02
You get stuck on purpose
Stuck is where the learning is, so nothing unlocks itself. There’s one hint, you have to ask for it, and it points at where to look instead of handing over the answer.
03
You forge the part you’re missing
When the palette really can’t do it, describe the part you want. Three questions later the forge casts exactly one block and stops. Snapping it in is your job.
04
It goes on your shelf
Your block is saved to your palette so you can reuse it in your next project. Understanding and changing what you build is still your job.
- one block per ask
- every block opens
- ages 9–14
- works best on a laptop, desktop, or tablet
Open any of it
Every block opens. Open one of yours and you see the smaller blocks it’s made of; open those and you reach the ones Bloqy shipped. There’s no layer further down where the real code is kept — the blocks are the real code, and that tree is exactly what gets saved.
Block inspector
You made this on March 3rd. Here is what is inside.
open it
Five ordinary blocks and one thing it was told — the height. If one of those were another block you had made, you could open that too, and keep going until everything on screen is a primitive.
The same block, as stored
No source file sits behind this. The tree is the block.
{
"name": "roof",
"slug": "roof",
"params": [{ "name": "size", "type": "number", "default": 100 }],
"returns": "void",
"createdBy": "forge",
"body": [
{ "op": "motion.point", "args": { "direction": { "op": "lit", "value": 45 } } },
{ "op": "motion.move", "args": { "steps": { "op": "param", "name": "size" } } },
{ "op": "motion.point", "args": { "direction": { "op": "lit", "value": 135 } } },
{ "op": "motion.move", "args": { "steps": { "op": "param", "name": "size" } } },
{ "op": "motion.point", "args": { "direction": { "op": "lit", "value": 90 } } }
]
}A part you can’t open is a part you don’t understand yet.
It says no a lot
An AI that mints a block for every request destroys the exact skill this exists to build. So the forge checks first whether the parts you already have would do the job, and it’d rather send you away than make you something you didn’t need.
Forge conversation · a parent can read it
Kid
can you make me a block that draws a square
Forge helper (AI)
ASSEMBLY_HINT
You already have move and turn. Put a repeat 4 around both of them and you have a square. Want to try that first?
Kid
oh. ok let me try that
Forge helper (AI)
ABANDONED
Good. Come back when you hit something the palette really can’t do — that’s when a new block earns its place.
No block was made and no credit was spent — credits only come off a forge that works. The same kid asked for a roof an hour later, which is two rafters and nothing in the palette does it. That one got forged.
What you can see and control
You set up your learner from your own grown-up account. Here’s what you can see and do today.
Read their AI conversations
You can read your kid’s AI conversations with Forge from your dashboard.
See what they build
See the projects and blocks your learner has made, right from your dashboard.
Download their projects
Download your learner’s projects and AI conversations as one file whenever you want a copy.
Projects stay private
What your kid builds stays in your family's account. Sharing with other families is off for now.
Remove a learner profile
You can delete a learner profile from your dashboard.
Coming next
- Learner accounts won’t need an email. (Coming soon.)
- Classroom plan. (Coming soon.)
Who makes Bloqy
Bloqy is made by a small independent team who think kids should learn to build with AI without letting it think for them. Questions? hello@bloqy.co
Software isn’t that hard. Come find out.
Start free: one learner, three projects, 15 forges a month. No payment to start. Building with blocks is never metered on any plan.