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✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.

775K visits/mo
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.

35M visits/mo69K saves
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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree

VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.

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GitLoop
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI codebase assistant that chats with your repos to search, debug, review PRs, and generate docs and unit tests.

11K visits/mo2.7K saves
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Vespa
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Open-source AI search and vector database platform for building large-scale search, RAG, and recommendation systems.

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Core features
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • Chat-to-app and website generation
  • Real-time prototype building
  • One-click deploy and hosting
  • Templates to start projects
  • Credit-based building with shared workspaces
  • You own your code and data
  • 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 with your repositories
  • Natural-language codebase search
  • Fast code indexing
  • AI pull-request and commit review
  • Automated documentation generation
  • AI unit-test generation
  • Combined vector, text, and structured search
  • Distributed machine-learned ranking at query time
  • Streaming search mode for cost-efficient personal/private data
  • Support for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines
  • Continuous deployment and automated scaling
  • Open-source core with a managed cloud option
Use cases
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • 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
  • Onboard new developers to a codebase
  • Resolve bugs faster
  • Generate docs and tests automatically
  • Review pull requests with AI
  • Building large-scale enterprise search engines
  • Powering RAG pipelines that need strong retrieval relevance
  • Building recommendation and ad-targeting systems
  • Search over personal/private data at lower indexing cost
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