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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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HumanLayer
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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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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Windsurf Editor
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.

3.3M visits/mo
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Rork
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI chat-based builder that lets non-developers describe an app and generate native mobile apps to publish to app stores.

1.1M visits/mo
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • AI-powered code completion and suggestions
  • Automated lint fixing
  • Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
  • Integrated app building and deployment
  • MCP server support for custom tools
  • Terminal command integration
  • Memory of codebase structure and workflow
  • Chat-based app generation from a natural-language description
  • Native iOS app output that can be published to the App Store
  • Native game generation including 3D worlds and multiplayer
  • File uploads to guide generation (larger uploads on paid tiers)
  • Import paths from other builders/tools (e.g., Lovable, GitHub)
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
  • Shipping code faster with AI agents
  • Coordinating agent work across a team
  • Managing tasks and artifacts in one place
  • Running many parallel agent sessions
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
  • Reducing onboarding time for new developers
  • Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
  • Streamlining the app building and deployment process
  • Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
  • Non-developers building and shipping a mobile app idea
  • Indie creators prototyping and monetizing app-store apps
  • Building simple multiplayer or 3D games without coding
  • Converting an existing web project or repo into a mobile app
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