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HumanLayer
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AI coding platform and IDE that orchestrates multiple agent sessions and lets teams plug in their own AI subscriptions.
197K visits/mo
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novita.ai
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AI cloud offering model APIs, GPU instances, and serverless GPUs; high traffic.
319K visits/mo1.4K saves
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Interview Coder
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Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.
167K visits/mo
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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
Pay-as-you-go: 42.8% platform fee for corporate, 33.3% for academic/non-profit (no monthly fee)
Participant payment: minimum $8.00/hr, recommended $12.00/hr
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No public pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Core features
- ✦Access to a verified and engaged participant pool
- ✦Self-serve platform for easy task setup and launch
- ✦Tools for AI training and evaluation
- ✦Fair compensation for participants
- ✦Audience checker
- ✦AI coding IDE with agent orchestration
- ✦Run and manage multiple agent sessions
- ✦Task, artifact and collaboration tools
- ✦Bring-your-own AI subscription or API keys
- ✦Cloud-scale agent execution
- ✦Model APIs
- ✦GPU Instances
- ✦Serverless GPUs
- ✦Custom Model Deployment
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Academic research
- →AI training and evaluation
- →Market research
- →User research & testing
- →Data annotation
- →Training & alignment
- →Evaluation & safety
- →Shipping code faster with AI agents
- →Coordinating agent work across a team
- →Managing tasks and artifacts in one place
- →Running many parallel agent sessions
- →Deploy AI models for various applications using a simple API.
- →Scale AI applications with serverless GPUs.
- →Access high-performance GPUs for demanding workloads.
- →Deploy custom models with guaranteed performance and scalability.
- →Getting live help on coding interview problems
- →Answering technical questions in real time
- →Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
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