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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
👁 775K/mo
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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Code Autopilot
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI GitHub companion that summarizes PRs, answers questions and proposes fixes inside issues and pull requests.
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Convex
✓ verifiedFreemium
TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
👁 692K/mo♥ 20K
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Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Core features
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
- ✦in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
- ✦workspace source-code context sharing
- ✦support for custom, user-defined assistants
- ✦secure management of the user's OpenAI account
- ✦Chat inside GitHub issues and PRs
- ✦Task-to-implementation plans with code
- ✦Automatic bug-fix suggestions
- ✦Pull-request summaries for faster review
- ✦Full-codebase context
- ✦GitHub-native integration
- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
Use cases
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
- →using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
- →quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
- →Speeding up pull-request reviews
- →Implementing features from task descriptions
- →Debugging with AI-proposed solutions
- →Answering questions about a repo
- →Boosting a solo developer's output
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
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