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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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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.
👁 35M/mo♥ 69K
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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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Runcell - Jupyter AI Agent
✓ verifiedFreemium
Jupyter-native AI agent that remembers a data project across sessions and reads chart/plot outputs, not just code.
👁 170K/mo♥ 5.5K
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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
- ✦Cross-session project memory recalling prior decisions and state
- ✦Autonomous execution of long, multi-step notebook tasks
- ✦Reads cell outputs (plots, tables, metrics), not just code
- ✦In-notebook cell-level assistance and error fixing
- ✦Installs directly into existing JupyterLab via pip, no new editor
- ✦Concept explanations with runnable example cells
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
- →Data scientists running multi-week model iteration projects
- →Domain experts (e.g. risk/fintech) who know the problem but not deep Python
- →Researchers wanting an agent that remembers project context across days
- →Analysts needing help understanding unfamiliar algorithms or libraries
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