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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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Line0
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI pair programmer that generates production-ready backend APIs from natural language and syncs code to GitHub.

746 visits/mo
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Angular.dev
✓ verifiedFree

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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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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Banani
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI copilot that turns text or references into editable, multi-screen UI prototypes exportable to Figma or code.

419K visits/mo13K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (daily limits, public projects)
Plus: $17/mo (150 messages/mo, private projects)
Pro: $85/mo (2000 messages/mo)

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

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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
  • Natural-language backend and API generation
  • Tab-to-prompt autocomplete and Enhance
  • In-browser code editor
  • Feature-based project chats
  • 2-way GitHub sync
  • Built-in API client with live DB preview (coming soon)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Text-to-UI prototype generation
  • Design from image or Figma references
  • Interactive multi-screen prototypes
  • Conversational AI editing
  • Export to Figma, HTML/CSS, images
  • MCP access for coding agents
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
  • Spin up backend services quickly
  • Prototype and test APIs without local setup
  • Keep generated code synced with GitHub
  • Build backends without heavy boilerplate
  • Building scalable single-page apps
  • Enterprise web application development
  • Performance-critical front ends
  • Learning modern web development
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • Rapid UI wireframing
  • Prototyping product screens
  • Recreating a reference UI
  • Handing designs to developers
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