2.
- perhaps the best for generating mobile apps from your phone
- also it's mobile-first iteself, basically "generate mobile app from your mobile"
- produces React Native apps (not just web wrappers)
- uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet
It took me 20 minutes to get my app done.
Compared to all other tools I've tried, softgen felt the more autonomous. I didn't have to debug things. It did it all on its own.
4.
- best for form based apps(user fills out the form and AI generates the output)
- I use it to build mini tools for SEO or lead magnets
- 100% nocode. Super easy to use. But limited to simple apps
5. Cursor.com
- the best
- works best for coders and not such a good fit for nocoders
- can assist, autocomplete, refactor and even build entire modules/projects
Here its been asked to migrate from Tailwind v3 to v4
6. @boltdotnew
- started as a side project of stackblitz and went huge raising $105M
- works for everyone(coders, nocoders, marketers...)
- has out of the box integration with supabase for data, auth..
8. @lovable_dev
- fastest-growing EU based startup today ($10M ARR)
- has native supabase integration
- has the best AI+NoCode mix on the market (the wysiwyg part)
- takes in screenshots as an input and can produce full web apps
9. @windsurf_ai (works well for advanced apps. my top 3)
- acts as a true agent
- offers deepseek
- can use the web search
- has a memory.
10. GitHub Copilot ( the OG of this game, started back in 2020 )
- can generate code
- handles large codebases
- can merge PRs, fix bugs, search code
11. @Replit AI
- most advanced AI Agent for coding imho
- has two modes: Agent or Assistant
- true full stack app generator. Has its own server, db, hosting...
12. v0 from Vercel
- best for making well-designed web pages or UIs
- doesn't work well for fullstack apps
- can use figma as a starting point
- lets you edit elements one by one
13. MarsX (my own product)
- a mix of AI, NoCode and High Code
- I built
@seobotai, @listingbott and @indexrusher using marsx
- it takes the whole coding world to the next level since it isn't a website builder, but "SaaS builder"
14. Devin
(I didnt manage to try this one, but someone else did, so I share their review)
- super expensive
- targets corporate world
- acts as a junior dev in a dev team
15. Webdraw
- best for people with zero coding experience
- totally genius UX
- free
- turns sketches into web apps
16. Tempo Labs
- Generates full-stack apps using a text or image prompt
- It starts by making an architecture and diagrams
- I think they have the best AI Coding UX, wow
17. Trae
- goes all the way from 0 to 1 via prompting
Building a snake game:
18. Cline
- VC code plugin
- works for large codebases
- supports any LLM
- runtime awareness
19. Databutton
- from my friends from Norway
- backed by VCs who backed one of my startups
- has very unique approach, different from most of the players
- works great for true nocoders
20. Continue dot Dev.
- an open source alternative to Cursor
- great for those who wanna build their own AI IDE (like maker from Pear AI who forked it)
21. Base44
- for noncoders
- all in one
- creates dashboard-like apps pretty well
22. Qodo
- for coders
- can write tests, refactor and generate code
- supports all llms(including deepseek)
23. Amazon Q
- very few people use it
- totally lagging behind the top players
24. Caffeine AI
- new player
- too early to say anything. for now just putting them into the list to come back to them later when they launch
25. Aider
- can genereate most of the things out of prompts
- has cool terminal UI
- acts as a pair programmer
- works locally
26. Pear AI
- entered into YC
- had a huge drama around forking a github repo
- had a mentor call with them, two very talented guys taking an alternative path on competing with cursor
27. Github Spark
- works well for small or demo apps
- still behind the "waitlist" for the technical preview
28. IDX
- free alternative to cursor
- can build mobile apps
- uses gemini
29. Tabnine
- mostly works as an advanced AI Autocomplete
- slowly getting into AI code gen
30. Amazon CodeWhisperer
- can generate unit tests
- help with coding
31. Jetbrains
- I'd expect them to be leading this whole AI Cod Gen thing. Back in the day their autocomplete and resharper thing were just so cool. But somehow, they just wasted it all. I hope they catch up.
32. ChatGPT code canvas
- great for nocoders learning tocode
Building windows 95 demo:
33. Grok from Elon and X AI
- can write pretty complex code
- does really well with mini games
2D vertical jumping game. With different heroes, monsters, platforms, difficulties, and lives
34. Haystack - An IDE built on top of a canvas
- really cool and creative idea for UX of a code refactoring with AI
- also does code reviewing
35. Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
- kinda the best coding LLM at the moment
36. Claude Code
can search code, run tests, and push to GitHub.
Claude Code is a CLI tool that lets you delegate engineering tasks to Claude with full access to your codebase, tests, and GitHub - all from your terminal.
I wanna build a unicorn, raise from big VCs, move to SF.
One day I meet a guy looking like a movie star.
This day is gonna change my life.
He makes a pitch:
“Imagine you sit on a couch with your girlfriend, she wants to watch a romantic comedy and you wanna see an action movie. You open this app, that has sliders for each genre from 0 to 100. You set Drama=40, Comedy=70, Action=60 and it shows you those movies magically filtered this way”.
I’m a big fan of movies, I watched every single movie from the top 500 on IMDB, and the guy looks like the next Steve Jobs, so I say: cool, I wanna join, I’ll be your Woznyak.
I invest around $100k and join as a CTO/CoFounder.
[The Mobile App]
We build this app in a few months and hire a team of people who watch every movie (10,000 movies) and categorize every minute of the movie into genres.
We launch the app and it goes viral.
Back then the app store was empty, people just find your app when you launch it.
We win the App awards, and we get into a 500 startup accelerator. The Startup Founder dream.
In 2023, I decided to learn marketing & distribution from zero.
I had no followers on social media, no content, sales, or SEO skills.
In 2 years, I built a semi-automated distribution engine.
No team, no marketing budget, just me. The details:
1. Social media.
At first, i tried random things, and nothing worked. Once in a while, I'd get semi-viral content, but it didn't lead to a serious spike in followers or clicks.
Then, after trials and errors, I landed on this strategy:
> focus on one platform only until u reach 10k followers
> focus on followers more than impressions, because if people follow you after seeing your content, it means they respect you as an author and will read your next tweets and maybe check out your products
> focus only on high-effort content. Ignore all sh&posting and hypetrains, see content as a product people would pay for. If you dont think people would pay to read your next tweet, then this tweet doesn't deserve to exist.
> stick to one topic, never deviate, no politics, no wisdom, no nothing, just your main topic, so that people associate you with it and you earn the topical authority.
> post every single day. For 600 days. But analyze your past posts, to see how you can improve. See those that bring more followers and use them as positive reinforcement for your next posts
> always schedule your posts, so that you can read them the next day before posting. You'll be surprised but 95% of your own posts gonna look like sh8t when you read them the next day. So produce 3-4 posts per day, schedule them, then unschedul 3 of them and let 1 go live.
> ideally, your content must be useful for the readers, but also showcase your own product. See this thread, I'll be sharing my products organically within it.
P.S. I'm launching a tool for social media called SocialBot this month, it'll be an AI Agent to help you become better at social media, like your personal PR manager. Reply if you wanna be in the first early adopter round.
2. SEO.
I'm not gonna teach you on how to score millions of clicks on a highly competitive area, but I do know how to score thousands of clicks in non so competitive areas without doing too much work
> keep your blog under the same domain/blog path
> use .com, .ai, .dev, .io, .org
> try to find the best keywords for your biz and make sure your domain name is similar or it's a direct match (but shorter than 15 chars)
> the web pages should be server side generated, not client side. Otherwise google won't be able to read the text from them easily.
> robots txt should not dissalow google bots (use any online checker for this)
> have a sitemap (again, use online checker for your sitemap). Make sure all pages are present in the sitemap and submit your sitemap to google search console manually
> have meta title and description tags on all pages (do a quick kw research and make sure keywords are similar to the text in title/description. Also have an OG image.
> have h1 and h2 on every page with keywords that have some traffic (use google ads planner to research this or ahrefs/semrush/ubersuggest
> make sure the pages are indexed by google and bing (i have a tool @indexrusher that helps a lot with this)
> back sure you have backlinks to your home page and other pages (i have a tool for this too @listingbott )
> create 10-100 blog articles (my @seobotai can do it, or do it manually, use grok research mode)
> create mini tools to drive seo traffic, (use @wrapifai or other vibe coding tools)
> create a subdirectory under your main domain that overlaps with your topic (if you use @unicornplatform for your website, then it's super easy)
That's the basic effort for SEO. It takes an hour a day or less, and brings moderate results. Worked out
1. Develop great memory, to ditch docs and notes. It’s 100x faster to put & pull information from your memory than from a computer.
I’d say this is the most important for being productive. Memory is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it becomes.
2. Learn to switch tasks & contexts. When I chat with someone, instead of watching a “typing indicator” I switch to another task and then come back. Think of it as a CPU that processes commands on cycles. That’s what I do, evey cycle I touch many tasks, then on the next cycle I touch them all again. So there is never any “idle” time tor me.
21 methods I've personally tried multiple times for my SaaS, Directories and AI Agents:
1. Cold emails:
- go for quality, not quantity
send to 20 people; if no reply, change email and resend. repeat until 2 replies.
- share the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"
2. Social media DMs (Li, X, IG, FB, RD, etc)
- send 15 sec loom with an audit of their biz/site/profile...where the preview makes it obvious it's personalized.
- impress them with your quick effort
- e.g. for @seobotai it'd be: "SEO audit of their website"