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Google Labs Opens a U.S. Waitlist for Play with Putty, a Real-Time Collaborative Vibe Coding Experiment

September 3, 2026 at 17:27 EDT

Software Dev & Coding

Google Labs has opened a United States waitlist for Play with Putty, a research experiment that treats vibe coding as a multiplayer activity rather than a solo prompt loop. The company describes it as a collaborative tool for building tools and websites together in real time.

August 25, 2026 · Google Labs

Play with Putty goes multiplayer

A United States waitlist is open for a Labs experiment that lets teams vibe-code tools and websites in one live workspace—cursors, prompts, and a running page, all at once.

How a session works

From a link to a live tool

Open a space

Start a website or tool in Putty.

→

Share the link

Teammates join the same room.

→

Prompt together

Anyone can change copy, layout, or behavior.

→

Use it live

The result is a running tool, not a static mock.

Who is in the room

Solo vibe coding vs. the official demo

Typical vibe coding is one person and one prompt loop. Google’s demo put six named collaborators on the same live page.

Solo builder

Typical vibe coding

Official demo

Named people in one session

Takeaway: the experiment is built for many hands on one living page, not a handoff of files.

18+

Minimum age for access

Waitlist region at launch

#13

Product Hunt day rank, Aug 28

109

Product Hunt upvotes

What builders like

A shared room instead of taking turns in a single-player generator. Internal teams are already using it for artifacts. Teammates can steer the same live tool from anywhere.

The pushback

Too many cursors can look chaotic. Access is U.S.-only and waitlisted. Some see a playful demo, not a professional workflow, and the name collides with the PuTTY SSH client.

Still a Labs experiment

Google has not named the model, a collaborator cap, or a date to expand beyond the United States.

Waitlist · free to join Use terms not yet set No public graduation path

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