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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
775K visits/mo
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Firebase Studio
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Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.
531K visits/mo
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Anima
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI design-to-code tool that converts Figma designs or cloned websites into HTML/React and builds apps with vibe coding.
321K visits/mo1.3K saves
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Free: $0/mo (5 code generations/day, 5 imports)
Enterprise: from $500/mo billed annually (SSO, SLAs)
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
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
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- ✦Cloud workspaces for full-stack development
- ✦App Prototyping agent from natural language
- ✦Gemini AI for coding, debugging and docs
- ✦Repo import from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket
- ✦Web previews and Android emulators
- ✦Deploy to Firebase App Hosting, Hosting or Cloud Run
- ✦Figma-to-code (HTML/React)
- ✦Clone any or private website to code
- ✦AI website and app builder
- ✦Figma agent (Buddy) and design agent
- ✦Anima MCP server and API
- ✦Adobe XD support
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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
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- →Prototyping apps from a prompt or mockup
- →Building full-stack apps in the browser
- →Collaborating and sharing preview URLs
- →Deploying and monitoring apps quickly
- →Converting Figma designs to code
- →Cloning sites as starting points
- →Building web apps with AI
- →Automating design-to-code in dev workflows
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