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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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Pipedream
✓ verifiedFreemium
Low-code integration platform for connecting thousands of APIs into workflows and AI agents, including an MCP tool server.
498K visits/mo
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RunningHub
✓ verifiedFreemium
All-in-one cloud platform combining ComfyUI workflows, AI apps, and model APIs for creators building image/video content pipelines.
1.4M visits/mo
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Core features
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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
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Visual and code-based workflow builder
- ✦Prebuilt AI agent builder and deployment
- ✦Managed authentication across thousands of apps
- ✦MCP server exposing integrations as agent tools
- ✦Scheduled and event-triggered workflows
- ✦Connect SDK for embedding integrations into other products
- ✦Cloud-hosted ComfyUI workflow execution
- ✦Infinite canvas for iterative visual editing
- ✦Prebuilt quick-create AI apps and viral templates
- ✦Model, workflow and AI-application API access
- ✦Creator rewards and referral coin system
- ✦Access to trending models like Seedream and Seedance
Use cases
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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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Building AI agents that call external APIs and tools
- →Automating cross-app workflows such as Slack, Gmail, or Sheets notifications
- →Embedding third-party integrations into a SaaS product
- →Prototyping event-driven automations without heavy infrastructure
- →Running ComfyUI workflows without owning GPU hardware
- →Producing short-form marketing and e-commerce video content
- →Building custom AI-powered creative apps
- →Generating image/video assets via API for other products
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