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MagicLearn
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Online course platform teaching non-coders to build with AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
6.0K visits/mo
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Convex
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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
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Stablecog
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Open-source Stable Diffusion/Kandinsky image generator with a free daily tier and paid plans for faster, commercial use.
83K visits/mo
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Meilisearch
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Fast, developer-friendly open-source search engine and AI retrieval platform offering full-text, semantic, and hybrid search.
198K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (limited course previews)
Pro: $17/month (billed $200/year, all courses)
Free trial available
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Starter: $10/month (2,000 images/month)
Pro: $25/month (6,000 images/month)
Ultimate: $50/month (12,000 images/month)
Cloud: $20/mo (starting, usage/resource-based, 14-day free trial)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Courses on AI code editors such as Cursor
- ✦Claude Code and full-stack AI development lessons
- ✦AI agents and automation training
- ✦App-building from idea to production
- ✦Prompt engineering instruction
- ✦Magic MCP and ongoing content updates
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
- ✦Open-source codebase
- ✦Free daily image quota with slower generation
- ✦Paid tiers with faster and parallel generation
- ✦Commercial usage rights on paid plans
- ✦Optional credit top-ups on paid plans
- ✦Sub-50ms search-as-you-type
- ✦Full-text, semantic, and hybrid search
- ✦Vector storage for RAG and similarity queries
- ✦Multimodal and federated search
- ✦Filtering, faceting, sorting, and geosearch
- ✦Managed cloud or self-hosted open source
Use cases
- →Learn to code using AI assistants
- →Roll out AI tooling across an engineering team
- →Build and ship apps with no prior experience
- →Upskill in prompt engineering
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Hobbyists trying AI image generation for free
- →Creators needing private, commercially licensed AI art
- →Developers wanting an open-source Stable Diffusion front end
- →Adding fast site or app search
- →Building AI/RAG retrieval pipelines
- →E-commerce and media search experiences
- →Semantic search over private data
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