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Interview Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium
Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.
167K visits/mo
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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.
29K visits/mo
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tambo
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source React toolkit that lets developers add a generative-UI AI agent to existing app components.
26K visits/mo
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Raycast
✓ verifiedFreemium
A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
1.1M visits/mo3.4K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)
Free trial available
Starter: Free (10K messages/month)
Growth: $25/month (200K messages/month included, $8 per additional 100K block)
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Real-time AI answers during technical interviews
- ✦Invisible to screen sharing and recording
- ✦Hidden from dock, tray and activity monitor
- ✦Click-through overlay
- ✦Live audio capture and transcription
- ✦Lifetime unlimited access license
- ✦Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
- ✦Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
- ✦Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
- ✦MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
- ✦Workspaces and chunk-level access control
- ✦On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
- ✦Renders registered React components as AI-generated UI
- ✦Built-in conversation streaming and thread history
- ✦Inherits existing user authentication and permissions
- ✦MCP (Model Context Protocol) support
- ✦Multi-model support
- ✦Self-hostable open-source cloud package
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
Use cases
- →Getting live help on coding interview problems
- →Answering technical questions in real time
- →Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
- →Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
- →OCR and structure scanned documents
- →Grounded document search with citations for agents
- →Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
- →Adding a chatbot-driven interface to an existing React product
- →Letting users query and manipulate app data through natural language
- →Building agent-powered dashboards that reuse a design system
- →Prototyping AI features without rebuilding the frontend
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
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