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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
👁 653K/mo♥ 2.9K
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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/mo♥ 20K
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Magic Patterns
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI prototyping tool that generates UI matching your design system, letting product teams test features fast.
👁 242K/mo♥ 3.8K
Pricing
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Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
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Core features
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
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- ✦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
- ✦AI UI generation from prompts
- ✦Match existing styling and design systems
- ✦Rapid, high-fidelity prototyping
- ✦Live team editing and sharing
- ✦Enterprise security and compliance
Use cases
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
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- →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
- →Prototype new product features
- →Test designs with customers
- →Build design-system-consistent mockups
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