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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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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
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Angular.dev
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Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
1.1M visits/mo
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Blink.new
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder turning English prompts into full-stack apps with provisioned DB, auth and hosting; also hosts autonomous agents.
1.1M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
No public pricing
Free: $0
Pro: $69/month
Free: $0 (no card)
Pro: $20/mo
Max: $50/mo
Blink Claw Starter: ~$45/mo
Blink Claw Standard: ~$90/mo
Blink Claw Pro: ~$180/mo
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Signals-based fine-grained reactivity
- ✦Built-in control flow and deferrable views
- ✦Server-side rendering and hydration
- ✦First-party routing, forms and dependency injection
- ✦AI-forward tooling and MCP resources
- ✦In-browser tutorials and playground
- ✦AI-powered documentation generation
- ✦Automatic code analysis
- ✦Support for multiple programming languages
- ✦Architecture overview visualization
- ✦Consistent formatting
- ✦Code-doc synchronization
- ✦Natural-language full-stack app generation
- ✦Auto-provisioned Postgres, auth, storage and hosting
- ✦Full code ownership with GitHub export
- ✦Managed hosting for autonomous AI agents
- ✦200+ bundled AI models
- ✦MCP and CLI tooling
Use cases
- →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
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development
- →Speed up onboarding of new team members
- →Reduce support burden by providing good documentation
- →Improve code quality through documentation
- →Solve undocumented legacy code problems
- →Ship a SaaS without an engineering team
- →Build internal tools from a description
- →Deploy always-on AI agents quickly
- →Provide infra for AI-coded apps
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