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Arena
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Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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Autonoma
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Open-source testing platform where AI agents drive your app end-to-end to catch regressions on every PR, no test code needed.
72K visits/mo9.3K saves
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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 visits/mo20K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free & pay-as-you-go: $0 to start (100K credits free, then $100 per 150K credits)
Self-hosted: $0 (free forever, unlimited)
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Core features
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦Text and SMS chat
- ✦Appointment booking
- ✦Reminders
- ✦Digital payments
- ✦Video calls
- ✦AI-assisted communication (CoPilot)
- ✦Wellness and Loyalty Plans
- ✦PMS Integration
- ✦AI agents navigate your app in real browsers
- ✦One-command setup that maps flows and drafts tests
- ✦SDK to seed and tear down real data
- ✦Runs on every PR against preview deploys
- ✦No test code required
- ✦Open-source with a self-hosted option
- ✦Integrates with GitHub, Vercel and Linear
- ✦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
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Streamlining communication between veterinary clinics and pet owners
- →Managing appointment requests and bookings
- →Processing digital payments for veterinary services
- →Sending reminders for medication and appointments
- →Boosting wellness plan subscriptions
- →Reducing missed calls at veterinary clinics
- →Catching regressions before merging PRs
- →End-to-end testing without writing scripts
- →QA for fast-shipping product teams
- →Self-hosted testing on your own infrastructure
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
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